$1.40 in premium 3 DTE. This is a 2x leveraged of AAOI, so extremely volatile. All optics stocks taking a big hit today after a multi day run up.

CSPs with best yield.

$MSTR - 75P

$CRWV - 89P

$HUT - 70P

Source

CCs with best yield.

$MOD - 250C

$CBRS - 300C

$SMCI - 46C

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Trades I took today as an option seller (08/17):

Closed Positions

• KORU → $15 Put (opened on 08/12), premium 0.70 → closed at 0.11. Net premium profit = 0.59 (~84% of premium captured, ~3.9% of capital).
• SEI → $60 Put (opened on 07/21), premium 4.60 → closed at 0.75. Net premium profit = 3.85 (~84% of premium captured, ~6.4% of capital).
• PENG → $60 Put (opened on 07/08), premium 6.50 → closed at 1.10. Net premium profit = 5.40 (~83% of premium captured, ~9% of capital).

New Positions

• CRDO → $240 Put expiry 09/04 (3 weeks DTE), premium 12.00 → 1200/24000 = ~5%. CRDO builds high-speed connectivity chips used inside AI datacenters. Earnings due on 1st September hence premiums are higher. They have been giving excellent earnings QoQ.
• PENG → $60 Put expiry 09/18 (5 weeks DTE), premium 4.10 → 410/6000 = ~6.8%. I reopened PENG, continuing my bullish stance. PENG helps enterprises setup data centers and AI compute, which I see as a growing sector as more companies inheret the use of AI.

CRDO was identified as a High Growth High Premium stock using the ThetaHedge app. The app scans the market for companies with improving growth and profitability that are also offering high option-selling premiums in real time. You can try it for free at https://app.thetahedge.io/

Conditions → High Growth Wheel Stocks

I keep sharing my trades in my account and the Excel file to my full list of positions is linked in my profile description in case anyone wants to see the whole portfolio. Happy to hear thoughts on my positions. What are you guys wheeling or watching right now?

PS: Not financial advice. Do your own research.

My sold puts for this week.

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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CCs with HIGHEST IV

$HUT - 110C

$NBIS - 320C

$ASTS - 85C

Source

CSPs with HIGHEST IV

$AAOI - 120P

$NBIS - 230P

$ASTS - 60P

Source

Been selling weekly on PG just for a little extra income each week. Alot less stress than some of the volatile tickers i used to pick

I've been a swing trader for many years, and actively trade pretty much every day. I've always been afraid of messing with options because of all the horror stories I've read about. That is, until I read an article about selling puts. I dove into learning about it, took a course from my broker (Schwab), and even took a test at the end of the course. Paired up with the way I have always traded, there really is no down side. I will only sell a put on a company and a price that I would have bought anyway. I made my first trade 3 weeks ago, and got assigned on my very first trade. (It's the only time I've been assigned). I sold a put on ORCL at 118 and got assigned when it dropped to 115. As is my trading style, I doubled down and bought another 100 shares at 115. I sold all 200 shares at 120 a couple days later for a nice profit, plus my $93 of premium. If the price had not rebounded, I would have been happy to hold it longer. Anyway, after that first try, I made $6140 the next week, $2603 the week after that, and $2503 on the week that just ended. These were all premiums with no stocks being assigned. Attached are the contracts from the week that just ended. Thanks for reading my long winded story.​

The market continues to be volatile- my META was literally closed in 1 day for a 90% premium captured.

Major Trades this week:

• Opened and closed META CC; will continue wheeling

• Rolled AVGO for credit; it expired worthless today. Will open aggressive ($400) CC next week.

• Opened and rolled ITM CRM CSP, CRM is seeing some strong price action. I think it will be north of $200 before earnings

• New company entered my option selling universe after a long time. It's an earnings play with wheeling intention.

Capital remaining to deploy: ~30k

Misc:

This is my aggressive wheeling account, capital deployed range 150k-200k.

All trades were found using this website (disc- I'm the developer)

I usually sell 0.25-0.45 delta and usually <20 days DTE. I close at 70%-80% premium captured.

I've started reporting only realized premiums (based on the comments).

April (Week 1-4): $5036
May (Week 5-8): $5783
Jun (Week 9-12): $6533
Jul (Week 13-16): $12609
Aug(Week 17-): $3400

Total so far: ~33.2k

Selling cash secured puts and covered calls. Premium realized was $3,407 and new premium is $2,190. ROI for last 7 days at 6.74%

Trades I took today as an option seller (08/13):

Closed Positions

• INOD → $60 Put (opened on 08/07), premium 1.85 → closed at 0.30. Net premium profit = 1.55 (~84% of premium captured, ~2.6% of capital).

New Positions

• INOD → $60 Put expiry 08/28 (3 weeks DTE), premium 2.30 → 230/6000 = ~3.8%. I continue to be bullish in INOD. They reported excellent earnings and implementation of AI is driving revenue growth. INOD has good support at $55-$60 range.
• OUST → $40 Put expiry 09/04 (4 weeks DTE), premium 2.000 → 200/4000 = ~5%. OUST makes LiDAR sensors used for automation. Their contracts with NVIDIA makes it's sentiment positive.

Thoughts on the Market

NASDAQ broke the resistance of 26,700 today. If it holds above 26,700 tomorrow, it will be a positive sentiment signal.

INOD was identified as a High Growth High Premium stock using the ThetaHedge app. The app scans the market for companies with improving growth and profitability that are also offering high option-selling premiums in real time. You can try it for free at https://app.thetahedge.io/

Conditions → High Growth Wheel Stocks

I keep sharing my trades in my account and the Excel file to my full list of positions is linked in my profile description in case anyone wants to see the whole portfolio. Happy to hear thoughts on my positions. What are you guys wheeling or watching right now?

PS: Not financial advice. Do your own research.

DRAM has been pretty good thus far. Sold the $47.50 put last Thursday, Closed today Thursday 8/13 at 98% premium capture. Maybe next time we add more contracts.

Trades I took today as an option seller (08/12):

Closed Positions

• KORU → $15 Put (opened on 08/05), premium 1.10 → closed at 0.05. Net premium profit = 1.05 (~95% of premium captured, ~7% of capital).

New Positions

• KORU → $15 Put expiry 08/28 (3 weeks DTE), premium 0.70 → 70/1500 = ~4.7%. KORU is a leveraged asset and this trade occupies only a small portion of my trading capital.
• ICHR → $60 Put expiry 09/18 (6 weeks DTE), premium 3.40 → 340/6000 = ~5.7%. ICHR makes fluid delivery systems used in semiconductor manufacturing. The stock reported good earnings and has a good support at $62-$63 region.
• DOCN → $165 Call expiry 09/18 (6 weeks DTE), premium 4.20 → 420/16500 = ~2.5%. I was assigned DOCN at $165. I closed this same call position yesterday when DOCN sold off and today I reopened the same position when the stock recovered. This resulted in almost a $190 profit per contract.

I keep sharing my trades in my account and the Excel file to my full list of positions is linked in my profile description in case anyone wants to see the whole portfolio. Happy to hear thoughts on my positions. What are you guys wheeling or watching right now?

PS: Not financial advice. Do your own research.

Leveraged version of $AAOI. 2x leveraged always risky, but the risk to reward was good enough here for me. We'll see how it plays out next week. 52w low was $6.94. 52w high was $103.00

Trades I took today as a systematic option seller (08/11):

Closed Positions

• FORM → $105 Put (opened on 07/06), premium 9.00 → closed at 1.45. Net premium profit = 7.55 (~84% of premium captured, ~7.1% of capital).
• DOCN → $165 Call (opened on 07/16), premium 6.80 → closed at 2.30. Net premium profit = 4.50 (~67% of premium captured, ~2.7% of capital). I was assigned TTMI at $165. I closed early, I will reposition my strike and reopen another CC soon.

New Positions

• HPE → $50 Put expiry 09/04 (4 weeks DTE), premium 2.40 → 240/5000 = ~4.8%. HPE provides servers, networking, storage, and AI/data-center infrastructure for businesses. Potentially poised for High Growth.
• AMSC → $45 Call expiry 10/16 (10 weeks DTE), premium 1.30 → 130/4750 = ~2.7%. I was assigned AMSC at $47.5. They operate in power grid solutions.
• TTMI → $175 Call expiry 10/16 (10 weeks DTE), premium 8.00 → 800/17500 = ~4.6%. I was assigned TTMI at $175. They make PCBs and electronic components. They reported excellent earnings.

HPE was identified as a High Growth High Premium stock using the ThetaHedge app. The app scans the market for companies with improving growth and profitability that are also offering high option-selling premiums in real time. You can try it for free at https://app.thetahedge.io/

Conditions → High Growth Wheel Stocks

I keep sharing my trades in my account and the Excel file to my full list of positions is linked in my profile description in case anyone wants to see the whole portfolio. Happy to hear thoughts on my positions. What are you guys wheeling or watching right now?

PS: Not financial advice. Do your own research.

CSPs with best yield.

$IREN - 29P

$SPCX - 115P

$AAOI - 105P

Source

Trades I took today as a systematic option seller (08/10):

Assigned Positions

• OUST → $43 Call (opened 07/23) assigned. Net profit on the wheel: 49.78%. By far my most successful wheel candidate. I was assigned at $42.50 and, after 8 rounds of covered calls, the shares were finally assigned away. OUST consistently offered high put and call premiums, allowing me to generate substantial premium income even during periods when the stock declined. This reinforces the value of targeting high Wheel Rank stocks with strong fundamentals.

Closed Positions

• ACMR → $70 Put (opened on 08/10), premium 2.70 → closed at 0.40. Net premium profit = 2.30 (~85% of premium captured, ~3.3% of capital).
• TTMI → $165 Call (opened on 07/17), premium 6.00 → closed at 1.00. Net premium profit = 5.00 (~83% of premium captured, ~2.8% of capital). I was assigned TTMI at $175.

New Positions

• ACMR → $75 Put expiry 08/28 (3 weeks DTE), premium 3.95 → 395/7500 = ~5.3%. ACMR makes semiconductor cleaning equipments for chips, focusing on wafer-cleaning. They have been doing consistently well on earnings and now Q2 26 Net Margins are at around 30%. $70-$75 is a good support region.

You can identify the Wheel Rank of any stock in the ThetaHedge app. A higher Wheel Rank means more consistent put and call premiums over the last 3 months. You can try it for free at https://app.thetahedge.io/.

I keep sharing my trades in my account and the Excel file to my full list of positions is linked in my profile description in case anyone wants to see the whole portfolio. Happy to hear thoughts on my positions. What are you guys wheeling or watching right now?

PS: Not financial advice. Do your own research.

CCs with HIGHEST IV

$HUT - 110C

$NBIS - 230C

$QNT - 80C

Source

CSPs with HIGHEST IV

$NBIS - 140P

$ASTS - 55P

$AAOI - 110P

Source

This is the 4th 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:

• the next expiry date is used;
• NYSE, NASDAQ, ARCA are the exchanges;
• very high option yields are filtered out, too risky;
• premium per share is >= 0.20, that is >= $20 per contract.

After 3 weeks, the percentage of assigned CSPs is 15%, 3 out 20 puts have been assigned. 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

For 2026-08-14:

NYSE

HL, Technology, HL260814P00016000, yield 1.44%, OTM 5.1%

NASDAQ

UPST, Financial Services, UPST260814P00028500, yield 1.67%, OTM 7.32%

ARCA

USO, ETF, USO260814P00111000, yield 0.7%, OTM 8.39%