Sep 27, 2024 – Sep 25, 2026
The wheel finished $1426.69 ahead of buy & hold (wheel made money while buy & hold lost).
Buy & hold Buy 100 shares and hold | Wheel strategy Puts → calls · keep premiums as cash | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit or loss | $-719.00 | $707.69 |
| Largest drop | $1304.00 | $1140.99 |
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This simulation ran 2024-09-27 to 2026-09-25 (42 trades, 5 cycles).
Simulated premium was $1,708. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$1,000. Combined realized P&L was $708.
Puts were assigned on 38.5% of put trades (5 of 13). Calls were assigned away on 13.8% of call trades (4 of 29).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($708) beat buy-and-hold P&L (−$719) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $1,141. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $1,304.
Of 42 priced entries, 12 used Black-Scholes fills from implied volatility, 12 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 $1,708 in premium (42 trades, 5 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 38.5%; call-away rate 13.8%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($708) beat buy-and-hold P&L (−$719) 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
$1,708
Assignment rate
38.5%
Wheel P&L
$708
Buy-and-hold P&L
−$719
Pricing sources: 12 IV / 12 bar / 18 HV
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