u/Fr0HiKE

I have five 12/18/26 deep ITM AMD $200 calls that I bought for $28,743 and they're now worth $133,170 (+$104K gain). If I sell the calls I would pay STCG on these, so I'm leaning towards exercising the option as I intend to hold shares for at least another year for LTCG purposes.

Another possible option is if I held until a week before expiration (bot on 12/04/26) I could just sell the options and pay LTCG. I'm honestly having a hard time weighing which option would be more beneficial.