Oct 4, 2024 – Oct 2, 2026
The wheel finished $311.23 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 | $-94.00 | $217.23 |
| Largest drop | $968.00 | $749.28 |
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This simulation ran 2024-10-04 to 2026-10-02 (49 trades, 5 cycles).
Simulated premium was $1,467. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$1,250. Combined realized P&L was $217.
Puts were assigned on 18.5% of put trades (5 of 27). Calls were assigned away on 18.2% of call trades (4 of 22).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($217) beat buy-and-hold P&L (−$94) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $749. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $968.
Of 49 priced entries, 25 used historical option bars, and 24 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 $1,467 in premium (49 trades, 5 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 18.5%; call-away rate 18.2%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($217) beat buy-and-hold P&L (−$94) 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
$1,467
Assignment rate
18.5%
Wheel P&L
$217
Buy-and-hold P&L
−$94
Pricing sources: 25 bar / 24 HV
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