Sep 27, 2024 – Sep 25, 2026
The wheel finished $342.68 ahead of buy & hold (earned more: $1523.68 vs $1181.00).
Buy & hold Buy 100 shares and hold | Wheel strategy Puts → calls · keep premiums as cash | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit or loss | $1181.00 | $1523.68 |
| Largest drop | $2429.00 | $1181.00 |
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This simulation ran 2024-09-27 to 2026-09-25 (51 trades, 8 cycles).
Simulated premium was $5,274. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$3,750. Combined realized P&L was $1,524.
Puts were assigned on 30.8% of put trades (8 of 26). Calls were assigned away on 28.0% of call trades (7 of 25).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($1,524) beat buy-and-hold P&L ($1,181) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $1,181. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $2,429.
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 $5,274 in premium (51 trades, 8 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 30.8%; call-away rate 28.0%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($1,524) beat buy-and-hold P&L ($1,181) 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.
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Simulated premium
$5,274
Assignment rate
30.8%
Wheel P&L
$1,524
Buy-and-hold P&L
$1,181
Pricing sources: 7 IV / 27 bar / 17 HV
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