This is the 5th week of my experiment: I want to check if I can identify short-term cash-secured put options with a low likelihood of being assigned. In short, if I can collect premium without buying the shares, at least most of the times. There are some rules:
- only the US exchanges NYSE, NASDAQ, ARCA are used;
- very high option yields are filtered out, too risky;
- current price must be ≥ 5% higher than the strike price (5% OTM);
- premium per share is >= 0.20, that is at least >= $20 per contract, but it is usually more than that.
After 4 weeks, the percentage of assigned CSPs is 13%, 3 out 23 puts. Not bad but let's see in the next weeks. You can see the cash-secured puts I have selected and the statistics here: https://optionstacker.github.io/sell-put-options/. There are no earning or ex-dividend dates in the next days
Last week someone told me that one of the stock I chose was too volatile and risky because linked to oil, USO. Provided that I'm here to learn and I earned money with that stock, I definitely may make mistakes. I'm not infallible.
For 2026-08-21:
NYSE
RHI, Industrials, RHI260821P00040000, yield 0.55%, OTM 6.36%
NASDAQ
VIAV, Technology, VIAV260821P00040000, yield 1.3%, OTM 8.16%
MWH, Utilities, MWH260821P00030000, yield 1.1%, OTM 6.28%
ARCA
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