Sep 27, 2024 – Sep 25, 2026
Buy & hold finished $185.98 ahead of the wheel (earned more: $6170.00 vs $5984.02).
Buy & hold Buy 100 shares and hold | Wheel strategy Puts → calls · keep premiums as cash | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit or loss | $6170.00 | $5984.02 |
| Largest drop | $7474.00 | $6506.00 |
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This simulation ran 2024-09-27 to 2026-09-25 (51 trades, 11 cycles).
Simulated premium was $16,984. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$11,000. Combined realized P&L was $5,984.
Puts were assigned on 39.3% of put trades (11 of 28). Calls were assigned away on 43.5% of call trades (10 of 23).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($5,984) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($6,170) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $6,506. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $7,474.
Of 51 priced entries, 7 used Black-Scholes fills from implied volatility, 27 used historical option bars, and 17 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
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This simulation produced $16,984 in premium (51 trades, 11 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 39.3%; call-away rate 43.5%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($5,984) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($6,170) on the stored window.
Requested 2024-09-27–2026-09-27; actual 2024-09-27–2026-09-25.
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Simulated premium
$16,984
Assignment rate
39.3%
Wheel P&L
$5,984
Buy-and-hold P&L
$6,170
Pricing sources: 7 IV / 27 bar / 17 HV
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