RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:terminationTickerTwit wrote: lower market volatility (at that time) might lead to lower income from from the covered-calls. It would be interesting to see if a falling trend in the premiums DF was able to get actually happened.
Here are the values reported as "Premiums Received". These numbers are from the Auditor's Reports. The brokerage costs are on the same page as the options, so I assume it is for writing options specifically. In another section of the report it provides another number as Portfolio brokerage costs so I have included that as well. The 2006/07 reports gave only one number. Management Fee is added to compare against the other numbers.
| | | Options | Portfolio | |
| | | Brokerage | Brokerage | Mngmt |
| | Call Options | Costs | Costs | Fee |
| 2006 | $220,455 | $79,812 | | $37,461 |
| 2007 | $39,400 | $76,751 | | $1,021,811 |
| 2008 | $196,768 | $64,109 | $20,691 | $844,260 |
| 2009 | $140,459 | $52,001 | $62,571 | $616,880 |
| 2010 | $142,313 | $46,224 | $26,454 | $633,745 |
| 2011 | $262,050 | $52,110 | $21,716 | $638,273 |
| 2012 | $165,684 | $54,270 | $43,822 | $587,730 |
| 2013 | $151,518 | $53,578 | $49,443 | $633,828 |
| 2014 | $312,287 | $132,415 | $121,478 | $1,167,760 |
| 2015 | $332,043 | $168,220 | $59,191 | $1,590,973 |
| 2016 | $242,665 | $152,170 | $74,990 | $1,600,172 |
| 2017 | $251,385 | $143,866 | $112,140 | $1,947,693 |