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Wheel Strategy Tracker: Roll-Adjusted Cost Basis Through the Full Cycle

Follow a position through the wheel — cash-secured put, assignment, covered call, called away — in one portfolio view, with your cost basis adjusted for every premium collected along the way.

The wheel is a cycle, but most tracking tools only show you a snapshot: an open put here, a stock position there, a covered call somewhere else, each with its own cost basis. That makes it hard to answer the question that actually matters — what is my true break-even on this position after every roll and every premium I've collected? Days to Expiry's portfolio tracker follows a wheel position end to end. Sell a cash-secured put, get assigned, sell covered calls against the shares, get called away — the position stays linked in your dashboard, and the cost basis carries forward adjusted for every premium collected, so you always know your real break-even, not just your original purchase price.

Portfolio view showing wheel strategy positions with cost basis and coverage status

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Problem

Wheel Positions Look Disconnected Once Assignment Happens

Cost Basis Resets — Once a put is assigned, most tools show the raw purchase price, losing track of the premium already collected

Legs Tracked Separately — The CSP, the assignment, and the covered call show up as unrelated events instead of one cycle

Manual Break-Even Math — You end up adding up premiums by hand every time you want to know your real entry price

No Full-Cycle View — Hard to see how a position performed from the first put sold to the shares finally being called away

Solution

One Portfolio View, Roll-Adjusted Cost Basis the Whole Way Through

Position Carries Through Assignment

A CSP that gets assigned becomes a share position in the same view, cost basis adjusted for the premium collected.

Roll-Adjusted Cost Basis

Net credits from rolled puts and covered calls adjust the tracked basis, so your break-even reflects the whole cycle.

Full Lifecycle Visibility

See a position from the first put sold through assignment, covered calls, and being called away in one place.

Automatic IBKR Sync

Connect your Interactive Brokers account and let assignments, rolls, and calls update your portfolio automatically.

Dashboard showing income collected across a wheel position from put through covered call

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How it works

Get started in 3 simple steps

1

Connect Your IBKR Portfolio

Link your Interactive Brokers account via Flex Query. Every cash-secured put, assignment, covered call, and expiration syncs into your portfolio automatically.

2

Watch a Position Move Through the Wheel

Sell a CSP, and if it gets assigned, the resulting shares appear in the same position record — not as a disconnected new entry — with cost basis adjusted for the put premium already collected.

3

Track Roll-Adjusted Basis on Covered Calls

Sell covered calls against the assigned shares. Each premium collected further reduces the tracked cost basis, so you can see your true break-even at any point in the cycle.

Key Metrics

Setup

Flex token + Query ID

Manual Entry Required

Zero

Cost Basis

Roll-adjusted

Built For

Wheel cycle

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about getting started

What does "roll-adjusted cost basis" mean for the wheel?

Every premium you collect — from the original cash-secured put through every roll, and again once you are assigned and selling covered calls — reduces your effective cost basis in the position. The tracker carries that adjusted basis forward automatically across the whole wheel cycle, instead of resetting to your raw purchase price each time a leg closes.

Does the tracker follow a position through assignment automatically?

Yes. When a short put you are tracking gets assigned, the resulting share position and its roll-adjusted cost basis carry over in the same portfolio view, so you can immediately see what strike a covered call needs to be sold above to stay profitable.

Do I need to re-enter trades manually when a position gets called away?

No. Positions sync from your connected Interactive Brokers account, so a covered call being exercised and the shares being called away is reflected in your portfolio view without manual re-entry.

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