Aug 13, 2024 – Aug 12, 2026
The wheel finished $10435.27 ahead of buy & hold (earned more: $15466.27 vs $5031.00).
Buy & hold Buy 100 shares and hold | Wheel strategy Puts → calls · keep premiums as cash | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit or loss | $5031.00 | $15466.27 |
| Largest drop | $26428.00 | $16140.25 |
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This simulation ran 2024-08-13 to 2026-08-12 (51 trades, 10 cycles).
Simulated premium was $53,049. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$37,583. Combined realized P&L was $15,466.
Puts were assigned on 34.5% of put trades (10 of 29). Calls were assigned away on 40.9% of call trades (9 of 22).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($15,466) beat buy-and-hold P&L ($5,031) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $16,140. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $26,428.
Of 51 priced entries, 4 used Black-Scholes fills from implied volatility, 27 used historical option bars, and 20 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 $53,049 in premium (51 trades, 10 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 34.5%; call-away rate 40.9%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($15,466) beat buy-and-hold P&L ($5,031) on the stored window.
Requested 2024-08-13–2026-08-13; actual 2024-08-13–2026-08-12.
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
$53,049
Assignment rate
34.5%
Wheel P&L
$15,466
Buy-and-hold P&L
$5,031
Pricing sources: 4 IV / 27 bar / 20 HV
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