lol Literally free money, if you don't mind having your account restricted and possibly banned from Schwab. I definitely made money but they were not happy.  My wife actually works there and if your spouse works in financial services your trades are regulated too so I have no choice but to have my accounts there.  So I had to deal with the employee trading department.  They didn't even call me, they just started selling out my positions which had $8k worth of theta decay left.  So I'm sitting at my computer looking at a market that's 100pts away from my OTM short SPX options when they suddenly start disappearing.

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Literally Schwab was like, "Ya, we can't technically stop you from doing this but we're going to have to restrict your account to closing positions only if you do this in the future."  The thing is, they technically can't sell me out until the position becomes uncovered and that only happens on the last day of expiration when the long SPX AM expires.  This was back when the markets were going crazy with volatility.  So, I've been debating on dropping another one of these so big that it doesn't matter if they ban me from trading with them or not (as I said, I can't open accounts elsewhere due to FINRA regulations).