Oct 4, 2024 – Oct 2, 2026
The wheel finished $2883.32 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 | $-1807.00 | $1076.32 |
| Largest drop | $1807.00 | $1054.00 |
Every sentence below is filled from the stored engine row. This page does not add a market story.
This simulation ran 2024-10-04 to 2026-10-02 (50 trades, 3 cycles).
Simulated premium was $1,076. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was $0. Combined realized P&L was $1,076.
Puts were assigned on 14.3% of put trades (3 of 21). Calls were assigned away on 6.9% of call trades (2 of 29).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($1,076) beat buy-and-hold P&L (−$1,807) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $1,054. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $1,807.
Of 50 priced entries, 8 used Black-Scholes fills from implied volatility, 26 used historical option bars, and 16 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 $1,076 in premium (50 trades, 3 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 14.3%; call-away rate 6.9%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($1,076) beat buy-and-hold P&L (−$1,807) 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
$1,076
Assignment rate
14.3%
Wheel P&L
$1,076
Buy-and-hold P&L
−$1,807
Pricing sources: 8 IV / 26 bar / 16 HV
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