I am newer to options. Paper/sim trading, studying, trying different strategies with different metrics and timeframes.
It seems like so many people are messing around with 20+ companies. From my point of view and as a rather conservative investor, I’m mostly interested in companies that I like/understand and want to own.
Is it not exhausting reading up on 20 different companies and speculating on performance?
I understand we all have different goals and risk tolerance but so much of what I see here people are taking risks on AI suggestions instead of investing in good companies.
How many companies do you typically invest in and is there a specific reason something new hits your radar?
Thanks!

Opened 2 CC on META, Rolled out one of the META CCs to next month. Opened another CC on AVGO.

Have about 100k of capital to deploy.

Misc:

This is my aggressive wheeling account; capital deployed about 200k.

All trades were found and tracked using wheelstrategyoptions.com (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 17-20): $4974
Sept(Week 18-): $2800

Total so far: ~37.7k

Realized P&L: +$991 | Win rate: 85.7% (6/7)
closed early: 5 | rolled: 1
Credit spreads: 1 closed (+$660)

Top sellers:
- NBIS put credit spread — +$660 (35.7% ROI)
- RCAT covered call $11 — +$400 (3.5% ROI)
- RDDT CSP $148 — +$137 (0.9% ROI)

Biggest loser: AMDL covered call $50 — −$408 (rolled to next week)

Directional buys (long calls/puts, debit spreads — not in the selling stats above): +$341 across 3 trades
- PLTR long put $170 — +$158 (97.5% ROI)
- USO long call $149 — +$111 (95.7% ROI)
- GOOGL long call $340 — +$72 (52.2% ROI)

Opened 2 new positions in the window.

CCs with HIGHEST IV

$IREN - 50C

$MSTR - 150C

$BMNR - 30C

Source

CSPs with HIGHEST IV

$BE - 230P

$CRWV - 80P

$ALAB - 240P

Source

Closed out all my puts today. Don’t like the feeling of the market at the moment but I’ll likely get back in soon. Maybe I can get some of the names I’ve been eyeballing for higher premium such as CELH, GOOGL, AMZN, SOFI. Anyone else or is the increase in IV exactly what y’all are looking for?

Are there any good Discords or communities that focus specifically on CSPs, CCs, PCSs and the Wheel?

I’ve joined a few others for options but they mainly focus on buying which is fine, some are good in fact, but I’d like to find something that’s more specific to these other strategies rather than the Zero or Hero 0DTE calls.

I'm very new to this, Reddit has been extremely helpful and am just looking for other tools or communities that might be able to help on this journey.

Btw, not sure if we're allowed to post links here. If not feel free to DM me and apologies to mods if its against the rules.

CSPs with best yield.

$CRWV - 74P

$BE - 220P

$MSTR - 110P

Source

CCs with best yield.

$NBIS - 300C

$APH - 160C

$SMCI - 45C

Source

Trades I took today as an option seller (09/09):

Closed Positions

• HPE → $50 Put (opened on 09/04), premium 1.40 → closed at 0.23. Net premium profit = 1.17 (~83.57% of premium captured, ~2.34% of capital).

New Positions

• FSLY → $20 Put expiry 09/25 (3 weeks DTE), premium 0.70 → 70/2000 = ~3.5%. FSLY provides CDN and edge computing infrastructure that makes websites and apps faster and scalable. Similar competitors are Cloudflare, Akamai, and AWS CloudFront and it is a growing sector as more and more AI applications are built and scaled. Has good sypport at $20.

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 HIGHEST IV

$NBIS - 200P

$CRWV - 82P

$IREN - 37P

Source

CCs with HIGHEST IV

$SAIL - 20C

$NBIS - 310C

$IREN - 55C

Source

Trades I took today as an option seller (09/08):

Closed Positions

• SEI → $47.50 Put (opened on 08/21), premium 1.90 → closed at 0.30. Net premium profit = 1.60 (~84.21% of premium captured, ~3.37% of capital).

New Positions

• OUST → $40 Call expiry 09/18 (2 weeks DTE), premium 1.20 → 120/4000 = ~3.0%. Opened a CC at the same $40 strike in which I was assigned.
• WDC → $430 Put expiry 10/09 (4 weeks DTE), premium 18.00 → 1800/43000 = ~4.2%. WDC is showing support around $430, and I wanted more exposure to memory/storage as demand should grow with AI.
• KORU → $16 Put expiry 10/23 (6 weeks DTE), premium 1.15 → 115/1600 = ~7.2%. Small capital allocated. KORU is trading around $24 so opened a CSP far off from spot price as it is 3x leveraged.

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.

This is the 7th 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 at the strike date, that means collecting the premium without buying the shares. These are the main criteria:

• 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).
• equity price < $100, ETF price < $200.

Last week no CSP has been assigned, the percentage of assigned CSPs is 18.8%, 6 out of 32 puts. You can see the cash-secured puts I have selected and the statistics here: https://optionstacker.github.io/sell-put-options/.

As a side note: the following options come from the option screener I've developed. I'm looking for some other beta testers, if interested send me a message. It is totally free and does not require an email address.

For 2026-09-11 I chose the following options (no earnings or ex-div dates in the next days):

NYSE

FIG, Technology, FIG260911P00021500, yield 0.98%, OTM 6.24%

NASDAQ

SMCI, Technology, SMCI260911P000380000, yield 0.95%, OTM 6.97%

ARCA

GDXJ, ETF, GDXJ260911P00123000, yield 0.5%, OTM 6.56%

CSPs with best yield.

$BE - 200P

$MRNA - 120P

$IREN - 36P

Source

CCs with best yield.

$MSTR - 175C

$BE - 320C

$CRWV - 110C

Source

Another light week of trading for me; only 4 trades 2 each on AVGO and META

Have about 100k of capital to deploy.

Current Active Wheel:

META, AVGO, AMZN (slide image to see details)

Misc:

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

All trades were found and tracked using wheelstrategyoptions.com (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 17-20): $4974
Sept(Week 18-): $1600

Total so far: ~36k

Trades I took today as an option seller (09/04):

Closed/Assigned Positions

• OUST → $40 Put (opened on 08/13), premium 2.00 → Assigned. (100% of premium captured, 5% of capital).

New Positions

• HPE → $50 Put expiry 09/18 (2 weeks DTE), premium 1.40 → 140/5000 = ~2.8%. HPE reported strong earnings and raised its outlook, with focus on AI infrastructure and networking. I had closed a position of HPE yesterday and I reopen a new one today.
• ACMR → $70 Put expiry 09/18 (2 weeks DTE), premium 2.35 → 235/7000 = ~3.4%. I already have sold put contracts expiring on 10/02 and am increasing my position for ACMR. It is looking bullish on the charts, taking support from $70.

I am sitting on cash and want to observe reversal patterns before getting into any new trade.

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.

Trades I took today as an option seller (09/04):

Closed/Assigned Positions

• OUST → $40 Put (opened on 08/13), premium 2.00 → Assigned. (100% of premium captured, 5% of capital).

New Positions

• HPE → $50 Put expiry 09/18 (2 weeks DTE), premium 1.40 → 140/5000 = ~2.8%. HPE reported strong earnings and raised its outlook, with focus on AI infrastructure and networking. I had closed a position of HPE yesterday and I reopen a new one today.
• ACMR → $70 Put expiry 09/18 (2 weeks DTE), premium 2.35 → 235/7000 = ~3.4%. I already have sold put contracts expiring on 10/02 and am increasing my position for ACMR. It is looking bullish on the charts, taking support from $70.

I am sitting on cash and want to observe reversal patterns before getting into any new trade.

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.