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1% Weekly Returns from Options Week 21
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1% Weekly Returns from Options Week 21

I've been posting for the last 20 weeks straight about using CSPs to achieve 1% weekly returns from selling options on about $100,000 in cash. As usual, I will post my trades in the comments as I make them. The thing I haven't mentioned before is that cash invested in CSPs also earns interest but I don't count that in my returns. Last week's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRaceTo10Million/s/nTNFbbESo7

Strategy:
- Use an AI screener to give me a list of top 20 low delta options for next week
- I either
- a. Roll my current options - I do this if I can still get 1% for rolling or if the option is ATM/ITM and I have to roll. I always roll for credit.
- b. Close a current option and pick something else from the list that I like
- I try to do this every Friday. However, if I'm busy on Fridays, I'll sometimes do this on Thursdays.

AI Prompt:
I give this prompt to brokerbotics AI:

find me 20 unique lowest risk puts to sell on stocks
expiry: next week
strike at least 8% from stock price
return at least 1%
sort by delta
furthest away from stock price
minimum strike price 10

Prompt Results:

https://preview.redd.it/u6uz30oel6fh1.png?width=1795&format=png&auto=webp&s=68f57f8a549fc863252eb85e426ee7d19a42b28f

Previous Week Results:

Week Capital Invested Premium Made Return % Notes
3/2 Week 1 $0.00 $0.00 0.00%
3/9 Week 2 $13,100.00 $131.00 1.00%
3/16 Week 3 $19,850.00 $203.00 1.02%
3/23 Week 4 $41,500.00 $596.00 1.44%
3/30 Week 5 $34,150.00 $353.00 1.03%
4/6 Week 6 $43,350.00 $462.00 1.07%
4/13 Week 7 $53,800.00 $573.00 1.07%
4/20 Week 8 $70,400.00 $811.00 1.15%
4/27 Week 9 $103,450.00 $1,093.00 1.06%
5/4 Week 10 $97,400.00 $1,040.00 1.06%
5/11 Week 11 $102,800.00 $1,077.00 1.05%
5/18 Week 12 $98,600.00 $1,170.00 1.19%
Week 12.5 $106,100.00 $475.00 0.45% Bonus round
5/25 Week 13 $106,100.00 $1,133.00 1.07%
Week 13.5 $115,900.00 $336.00 0.29% Bonus round
6/1 Week 14 $105,750.00 $1,053.00 1.00%
6/8 Week 15 $110,700.00 $1,146.00 1.04%
6/15 Week 16 $111,850.00 $1,105.00 0.99%
6/22 Week 17 $108,350.00 $1,045.00 0.96% Got SLV 65.5 assigned
6/29 Week 18 $111,550.00 $1,126.00 1.01%
7/6 Week 19 $102,850.00 $1,111.00 1.08%
Week 19 Bonus $108,550.00 $98.00 0.09% APLD 1:3 to avoid assignment
7/13 Week 20 $104,350.00 $842.00 0.81%

Total premiums collected: $16,979
As of yesterdays close
Negative value of options: -2354
Gains/Losses from Assignment: -1310

Net Gains: $13,315

I'm looking for ideas on how to calculate my annualized return. Comment if you have a formula.

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u/Enough-Beginning3687 — 3 hours ago

13 months of selling weekly far-OTM puts — $16.7k realized on a $52k account. Tear my strategy apart.

Quick background: I've been trading options for about 7 years — day traded them, swing traded, bought puts for hedging, basically tried the whole playbook at some point. About 13 months ago I landed on selling puts and haven't looked back. It's the only thing I've done that just consistently works week after week, so that's what this post is about. I want real feedback before I scale this thing up.

How I run it:

Weeklies only. I open positions Monday or Tuesday and let them expire that Friday. Strikes are 15-20%+ OTM, deltas under 30 (usually way under), I never sell on earnings weeks for that ticker. I keep a watchlist set up per sector so I'm forced to spread out instead of piling into whatever's hot — right now I'm usually holding 20-26 positions a week, mostly 1-5 contracts each, across miners, biotech, fintech, metals, travel, tech, etc.

I run it on margin at Schwab, currently around 3.5x notional vs my net liq (had it closer to 5x at one point and decided that was dumb). Roughly 165-185k. If I get assigned, I don't panic — I hold the shares and sell them Monday morning and restart. I end up in the money very little of the time.

This week's tickers for flavor: HUT, BTDR, CIFR, CORZ, IREN, RIOT, WULF, MRNA, HIMS, SLS, UPST, SOFI, PYPL, NCLH, DKNG, CMG, KGC, HL, CLF, IONQ, INTC, SMCI. Collected $502 of premium (I can break down further if asked). I lean toward high-IV small and mid caps because the premium per dollar of margin beats large caps at the same delta by a mile.

The actual results (13 months):

  • 232 option trades closed: 228 wins, 4 losses. 98.3% win rate
  • ~$12.6k realized from options
  • Total lifetime losses on the puts: about $225. Worst single put loss ever: -$14.57
  • Assigned twice (both HUT), sold the shares for +$1,077 and +$2,712 — funny enough my two biggest wins ever came from the assignments, not the puts themselves
  • All-in realized including those stock exits: ~$16.7k
  • Account sits around $52k now
  • Current pace is about $400/week realized, best week ~$650, and yes I've had a red week (-$147)
  • I reset the 15-20% OTM every week so theoretically a stock can keep declining less than that threshold and Ill survive (I've lived through this with $HUT).

Stuff I already know is a problem, so save yourself the typing:

  • HUT is ~42% of my lifetime P/L and crypto miners are still ~37% of my current notional. I'm diversified by ticker count but honestly a chunk of it is one big BTC bet. I use to solely sell NCLH and HUT early on. Still working on continuous diversification (already made significant improvements though).
  • Deep OTM weeklies on small caps have garbage bid/ask spreads, and the marks that prints can get ugly. Fills degrade as I size up too.
  • Everything is short-term gains so taxes take a real bite.
  • My whole 13 months has been in a market that never truly broke. I'm fully aware a 98% win rate is just what sub-30 delta selling looks like until the bad week shows up. That's the part I'm trying to prepare for (diversified across at least 3-5 sectors and 1-4 tickers each sector).

What I'd love input on:

  1. Anyone who ran leveraged short puts through 2020 or 2022 — what actually saved you or killed you? What rule do you wish you'd had going in?
  2. Better ways to deal with the wide-spread/illiquid mark problem on deep OTM weeklies, other than just avoiding thin strikes? Would shifting part of this to put spreads or XSP/SPX kill too much premium?
  3. Where does this stop scaling? I'm already seeing worse fills on the small caps as contract counts grow.
  4. Anyone gone from Reg T to portfolio margin running something similar — worth it? Did it change your sizing?
  5. General roast welcome. Rather hear it from you guys than learn it the hard way.

Not financial advice obviously. Happy to share more detail on anything.

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u/Historical_Affect_73 — 2 days ago

Cash secured puts strike price

Hi,

After few years of long term investment and swing trading, I would like to start CSP options. After reading some books, I'm close to be ready to start my first one. I still have some questions about finding the proper strike price. Some books talked about Bollinger bands, RSI, support and resistence. Ounce you found your specific stock, is 30 to 45 days with an IV of .30 is the sweet spot generally? I'm a bit confuse too about to close earlier the contract. Can we set a limit price to close earlier the contract like we use a stop loss on swing trading?

Thanks!

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u/RideAdventurous8944 — 5 days ago

Do you guys have a setup to select stocks to do CSPs and Credit Spreads? Here’s mine

Recently I used Claude to help me setup filters to find stocks to do CSPs and Credit Spreads on. Here’s what we do:

PART 1 - SCREENING FILTERS
Run these filters before opening any chart. They eliminate structurally inadequate stocks at the source
No Earnings Within 30 Days
Earnings Date > 30 days from today
Price Above 20D EMA
Last Price > 20D EMA
Minimum Daily ATR
14D ATR > $15.00
IV Percentile
IV Pctl > 50%
Open Interest
OI > 500 per strike
Weighted Alpha
Wtd Alpha > +20
 
PART 2 - TECHNICAL FILTERS
Open the 30-minute chart with EMA9, EMA21, ATR 1D, RSI 14, and FRVP (150 rows, 30-day anchor) configured. All five must pass
Spot Above Both EMAs
Price > EMA9 AND Price > EMA21
RSI Range
45 < RSI < 75
Daily ATR Confirmation
ATR (1D, 14) > $15
Daily Movement
Day change between -0.8% and +5%
Volume Profile (POC)
Spot above POC with support below strike
 
What about you guys? Criticism is welcomed, the purpose here is to learn.

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u/FrostySignature135 — 8 days ago
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We went 5x

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u/Character_Carry9477 — 9 days ago