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Home Help Advertise Login Register. Does anyone have an explanation for Revenue Canada's treatment of options in registered accounts?

Specifically, I can buy a put - giving me the option to go short the underlying which is not allowed but I can not sell a put giving me the option to go long the underlying which is allowed.

Is this a case of "selling what you don't own is short and short isn't allowed" without actually considering the nature of the instrument? I think it's the naked options you are not allowed in registered accounts.

Canadians -RRSP, TFSA and options

I think the logic is that a retirement account should not be used for speculative bets. ERICOPOLY Lifetime Member Hero Member Posts: ERICOPOLY on September 23, , How about this one: I have read the tax law, I have read CRA's arguments with regard to its implementation and I still don't understand its logic. I believe that the reason you cannot short in a RRSP or TFSA is because you cannot go on margin in those accounts.