<p>OT - INFN Options. I haven't thought this through - in terms of selling a good chunk of NOK yesterday for a loss, and whether an options gain would trigger a wash sale rule. But.....looking at Nov. 10th calls - the stock itself is trading around $8.06 right now. If you sold nov 10 stk 8.50 calls, you could probably get .40 cents for them. And if it finished ITM (unlikely, as they'd need some upside surprise), your effective sale would be $8.90 - the .90 representing a fair percentage of the total price of the stock at the moment. If you sold call with stk $8.00, you'd probably get .60 for them, if I'm not misreading the call tables. If it drops post earnings, you pocket the .60/sh.  The Joker in the deck is that we've seen huge price movements upon earnings (I won't forget -20% on NOK anytime soon). So if they've got something up their sleeve, such as great forward guidance - one might wish that they had just stayed in the stock, as $8.90 as a sale might seem paltry compared to a very big move. But if one bets on the general trend of capex drought - well, I sold 1/2 my position @$8.28 yesterday. That .40 premium at stk $8.50 wouldn't produce a ton of profit, but it might salve a savage downward move a bit, and make 'slogging with it through the sewers' (an analyst's advice after it fell from about $12 to about $8 several CC's ago, on a very bad CC) a bit more bearable. I may well do that.</p> <p>Also, of note, the earnings announcement isn't supposed to be after market close tomorrow, rather than the open. Hope the note is right about that:</p> <p><span>Earnings announcement* for INFN: </span><strong>Nov 08, 2017</strong><span>. Infinera Corporation is expected* to report earnings on </span><strong>11/08/2017</strong><span> after market close. The report will be for the fiscal Quarter ending Sep </span><strong>2017</strong><span>. According to Zacks Investment Research, based on 8 analysts' forecasts, the consensus EPS forecast for the quarter is $-0.23.</span></p>