Wikinvest Wire

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Hold The Phone

SDS is ex-div today for $4.04. The pay date is Sept 30.

SDS is a client holding.

Update...

Thank you to reader Jody for pointing this out.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wha?? Didn't they post a div in June? Any ideas here?

Roger Nusbaum said...

SDS dividend history

Anonymous said...

thanks for the history. I just called proshares, and they said that "due to termination of some CDS, they were able to make this substantial capital gain dist." (They may have had CDS on Lehman?)

Can you tell me what the likely result will be to the options written/bought on SDS? Do they adjust for this capital gain distribution, or is it a risk that is embedded in the option price?

RJMConsulting said...

THE PROSHARES SNAFU: They apparently did not have adjustments ready this morning; there was very little / no trading in the options and everyone's screen was filled with bad quotes.

Fresh quotes are coming through now so it looks to be somewhat resolved/resolving, but for those of us with open options positions, our intra-day net worth was kerflooey for awhile.

R in NY

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