Post #8415 by Engr27 on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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I will mention the obvious here. When someone exercises an option and you are assigned, you don't have to deliver the shares that have been in your account for a long time and have large embedded capital gains. You can instead buy new shares and deliver those.

I didn't know that. Even easier is to buy back the calls near expiration for a comparable loss.

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