GOP Rep. on cyber committee dumped MSFT shortly before $10B contract scrapped
I'm all for the pitch forking when it makes sense, but the congressman has a decent out which wouldn't be hard to prove.> In the audio recording, Fallon backed this up by outlining the trade as an option call in which he purchased a block of $250,000 in Microsoft shares on May 26, and subsequently sold the rights to other investors to purchase at a later date. Those other investors chose to purchase the shares on June 21, according to disclosure reports, effectively liquidating Fallon's position in the company just two weeks before the high-profile JEDI contract fell through.He purchased a bunch of stock, or ITM (in the money) options - either way he then sold covered call options (good safe bet). Those sold call options went ITM and someone exercised forcing his position to be liquidated.Purchase a stock, sell call options to make a bit more money or as a "hedge" against the stock going down.Either way, classic strategy.It didn't really work this time because the stock went up too far, out of his expectation which limits the gains to the value of the options sold. But again, it's a relatively safe strategy.