Sep 27, 2024 – Sep 25, 2026
Buy & hold finished $1273.45 ahead of the wheel (earned more: $2258.00 vs $984.55).
Buy & hold Buy 100 shares and hold | Wheel strategy Puts → calls · keep premiums as cash | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit or loss | $2258.00 | $984.55 |
| Largest drop | $3206.00 | $3354.49 |
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This simulation ran 2024-09-27 to 2026-09-25 (50 trades, 11 cycles).
Simulated premium was $6,735. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$5,750. Combined realized P&L was $985.
Puts were assigned on 42.3% of put trades (11 of 26). Calls were assigned away on 41.7% of call trades (10 of 24).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($985) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($2,258) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $3,354. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $3,206.
Of 50 priced entries, 6 used Black-Scholes fills from implied volatility, 26 used historical option bars, and 18 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 $6,735 in premium (50 trades, 11 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 42.3%; call-away rate 41.7%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($985) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($2,258) on the stored window.
Requested 2024-09-27–2026-09-27; actual 2024-09-27–2026-09-25.
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
$6,735
Assignment rate
42.3%
Wheel P&L
$985
Buy-and-hold P&L
$2,258
Pricing sources: 6 IV / 26 bar / 18 HV
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