In microsoft.public.money, siddharthsawe[at]gmail.com wrote:

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Based on your description, it sound like a bug.

Your workaround would be to modify the Buy transaction to reduce the
total by 2* the premium.

With reference to your response i discoverd the following, would
appreciate if someone can shed some light on this issue.

There seems to be a bug in microsoft money in options tracking. I am a
option underwriter, i never buy options but i always sell covered
options( Calls and Puts both) and sometimes i do sell uncovered calls.

The thing that i discovered is as follows:
1) I sold 10 INTC Dec 25 Put, accordingly i added an investment called
"10 INTC Dec 25 Put" ( basically so that i know what the position is
just by looking at the title). I specified the premium and the
commission the total was correctly computed to be total premium - the
commission. Since this was a sale to open a new position i specified
the "activity" as "Sell to Open" so far so good.

2) This sale got exercised on the option expiration date by the buyer
of the option. In order to reflect that i added a "exercise"
transaction with the correct number of contracts.
2a) This automatically created a dummy transaction with activity "Buy
to Close" (essentially to cancel the gain shown by the original entry (
the one with activity "Sell to Open"). Nothing wrong with this...so far
so good.
2b) A second transaction with activity "Buy" was automatically
created, nothing wrong with this either "except" for the fact that the
"price" *instead* *of* being the strike price - premium received was
set to strike price + premium received
Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:
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In microsoft.public.money, Mark wrote:

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That would be Sell To Open when you enter the position.

It would be "Exercise" when you get assigned. The exercise was done
by the person you sold the option to.

Reference http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;283822

<siddharthsawe[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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I have Money 2004 deluxe, is there any way to enter options 'puts' and
'calls' *assignments* for the options that *i* *sold*?

I can see Expire and Exercise in the drop down but i cant see something
like "Assign/Assignment" over there.
thanks
-Siddharth