Lost 10,000 more MARA shared this week. The position just got better.
Mathematical Money | May 30, 2026 Another 10,000 MARA shares got called away this week. On paper that looks like a worse position. The math says the opposite. If you've been following along, last week's post was about getting called away on the first 2,000. I wrote about how the assignment wasn't a disaster, even though it felt like one. This week the rest of the May expiry wave hit. About 6,500 more shares assigned at $10–$11 strikes when the stock was trading above $14. Plus the earlier 3,500 from May 9 and May 16 expiries that I covered last week. By the time the dust settled, the share count had dropped from 44,546 in mid-May to 34,546 today. Let me show you what that actually did to the position. The FIFO Math Nobody Explains Here's the part most retail traders never see, and it's the