Oct 4, 2024 – Oct 2, 2026
Buy & hold finished $8073.63 ahead of the wheel (earned more: $10689.00 vs $2615.37).
Buy & hold Buy 100 shares and hold | Wheel strategy Puts → calls · keep premiums as cash | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit or loss | $10689.00 | $2615.37 |
| Largest drop | $8660.00 | $7496.05 |
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This simulation ran 2024-10-04 to 2026-10-02 (51 trades, 9 cycles).
Simulated premium was $13,615. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$11,000. Combined realized P&L was $2,615.
Puts were assigned on 30.0% of put trades (9 of 30). Calls were assigned away on 42.9% of call trades (9 of 21).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($2,615) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($10,689) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $7,496. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $8,660.
Of 51 priced entries, 5 used Black-Scholes fills from implied volatility, 27 used historical option bars, and 19 used Black-Scholes fills from realized volatility. The engine flagged this run as using modeled fills.
Phase 1 totals from the stored engine summary
Phase 2 totals from the stored engine summary
One fixed recipe — 10 DTE / 2% OTM — not your DTE or OTM
No underlying price tape and no per-trade list on this page
Results are simulated and can use model fills when quotes are missing
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This simulation produced $13,615 in premium (51 trades, 9 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 30.0%; call-away rate 42.9%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($2,615) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($10,689) on the stored window.
Requested 2024-10-04–2026-10-04; actual 2024-10-04–2026-10-02.
Premium, assignment, wheel P&L, and buy-and-hold P&L come from one engine row. The why-this-result copy is filled from those fields only.
The chart is the same 100-share wheel vs buy-and-hold series as the interactive tool. Underlying closes and the trade tape stay off this page.
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Simulated premium
$13,615
Assignment rate
30.0%
Wheel P&L
$2,615
Buy-and-hold P&L
$10,689
Pricing sources: 5 IV / 27 bar / 19 HV
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