Oct 4, 2024 – Oct 2, 2026
Buy & hold finished $462.03 ahead of the wheel (earned more: $1454.00 vs $991.97).
Buy & hold Buy 100 shares and hold | Wheel strategy Puts → calls · keep premiums as cash | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit or loss | $1454.00 | $991.97 |
| Largest drop | $2597.00 | $1705.32 |
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This simulation ran 2024-10-04 to 2026-10-02 (48 trades, 7 cycles).
Simulated premium was $2,992. Simulated stock / assignment P&L was −$2,000. Combined realized P&L was $992.
Puts were assigned on 33.3% of put trades (7 of 21). Calls were assigned away on 25.9% of call trades (7 of 27).
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($992) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($1,454) on the stored window.
Largest wheel drawdown in the stored series was $1,705. Buy-and-hold drawdown was $2,597.
Of 48 priced entries, 24 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 $2,992 in premium (48 trades, 7 cycles).
Simulated put assignment rate 33.3%; call-away rate 25.9%.
This simulation’s wheel P&L ($992) trailed buy-and-hold P&L ($1,454) 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
$2,992
Assignment rate
33.3%
Wheel P&L
$992
Buy-and-hold P&L
$1,454
Pricing sources: 24 bar / 24 HV
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