The clearing firm may automatically exercise by exception any option that is in the money at expiration to preserve its value for the holder of the option and at the same time, benefit from the commission fees collected from the account holder.
How to Tell Your Nervous Thoughts Are Out of Control. What makes anxiety frustrating at first is that many people do not know they have it. Their nervous thoughts feel completely normal. When someone develops anxiety, they may notice that they find more and more things to inspire feelings of nervousness. Yet to them, these are genuinely anxiety-producing stimuli.
1 These types of learned associations happen every day, and can cause you to feel fear without necessarily knowing why.  On-Edge Feeling Whether or not anxiety directly creates that feeling of being afraid and on edge isn't clear. But there is some evidence that your mind adapts to the way you feel. So when you have anxiety, and your body starts reacting like you're experiencing a fear response, then your mind may also adapt to that feeling and start to feel fearful as a result of your anxiety symptoms.