RE:RE:The Options Effect - And how to profit form it? Yes, nothing nefarious about the options (though a big payout for being at the helm when oil prices inevitably dip does seem more like a windfall than great management). More importantly, re. your comment "with this out of the way the stock might have a better chance of ascending" - I'd like to know to what extent this option selling really is out of the way. Based on the dollar value of insider selling in 2015 I calculate that a million or more option shares could have been sold. But there were about 10 million options outstanding when the year started. And more could have been issued in 2015 (though presumably those would have a high exercise price). So it would be great to know the exercise price and expiry dates of those millions of outstanding options to get a sense of how much turbulence or headwind they could represent in 2016. Does anyone know where & how to look up that information? -GLTA & Happy New Year!