The good news is I am a former options trader and I am a tax lawyer.
The bad news is I am not an accountant or a return preparer.
How do you not know what the name of the contract is? For example, if I buy an index option on S&P the contract name on CBOE is "SPX" and then if its a call the whole name will be something like "SPX-yyyy" where the "yyyy" part encodes the type of option and so on. How could you buy a straddle and not know what the underlying was? How is it not on a broker's statement. Something is very wrong here.
For those who wish to step in, a plain vanilla straddle is the purchase of a call and a put separated in strike, call above put, typically (but I never traded retail or thru RAES) executed as a single order. I might say bid for a 220/320 October straddle 100 contracts at 32 on SPX" so how did you even order it without knowing the strike prices and components and symbols?
