Closing Out Oct. 3rd XLF $23 Calls

On September 24th I posted, Trade Idea: (Short term options) XLF Calls which was a speculative long position on Financials, those expire today and are up 144% from yesterday, while still being at about a 50% loss.

These were a speculative size so it's not anything that hurts, but I figure I might as well take what's left of them rather than take a chance on the rest of the day and them perhaps losing all value.

If I has an expiration that was a week or more longer, I'd hold them without question, but they do expire today for me so I'm going to go ahead and take the loss of about 50?% of the position and salvage what's left.