BORINGPAYSby Stay Home Trading
BORINGPAYSby Stay Home TradingBoring pays. Trade with a plan.
Boring Pays assumes you already understand basic options and the wheel
strategy — selling cash-secured puts and covered calls. Want to learn more about options?
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Trading — the guide covers the basics.
1What kind of stock are you after?
Pick one — you can fine-tune after
2How much cash per contract?
One contract ties up 100 shares' worth of cash — to put more to work, sell more contracts
Hold for
Distance from today's price
Quality checks
Filters— these narrow the list, and they all apply when you hit Run Screen below
Estimate settings— not filters: they set the trade the Est. columns are calculated for. The Annualized filter above is measured against them, so changing these changes which stocks pass.
3See what pays
Pick a preset above, adjust the filters if you want, then hit Run Screen.
⏳ This can take a minute or more.
Wide ranges leave hundreds of names to comb through, and each one’s chart is
fetched on its own. The count keeps moving while it works — leave it running.
Narrow these results— hides rows already on screen, no re-scan
💡Click any row to open it. You get the trade in plain English — the live option chain, what you'd be promising, and what happens either way. Once it reads obvious, you can stop opening them.
Do your own due diligence on every row.
These are ranked on the setup's timing — the screen has not looked at the chart, at
upcoming earnings, or at whether the stock suits you. Open the chart, check when the
company reports, and decide for yourself before you place anything.
| Stock | Price | Quality to enter | You'd buy at | Cash tied up | You'd collect | Return · 5 wks | Easy to trade | Why it passed |
|---|
Estimated premiums are indicative only and may differ from live option prices. Always verify in your broker before placing a trade.
1What do you think the stock will do?
1 contract = 100 shares · These are estimates. Not financial advice.
Built for the wheel. Legs pair contract by contract, so another
strategy still uploads and every row still shows — but the totals, the position count and the
win rate may not describe how you traded it.
Your trades
💡Size is shown in shares as well as contracts because on an option row the same "2" means two things — 2 contracts is 200 shares of exposure. Your CSV keeps writing contracts on those rows; only the display spells the shares out. A stock row is already in shares, in whole lots of 100, the way the template writes it. The shading alternates by strategy id, so every row of one position shares a tint and the next position flips it.
12 columns, fixed: date · strategy · symbol · instrument · action · strike · expiry · quantity · price · fees · status · notes. A file with any other column is rejected. Use the same strategy id on a trade's open and close legs — P&L is computed from its sell premium minus buy premium. Your journal is private to your account, and a lapsed plan can still read and export it — no lock-in.
Quantity means contracts on an option row and shares on a stock row — a stock row is written in whole lots of 100, and P&L is scaled to match each.
Option row — Put, qty 2 = 2 contracts = 200 shares of exposure. Premium $2.79 → P&L 2.79 × 2 × 100 = $558.
Stock row — Stock, qty 200 = 200 shares, the 2 contracts assigned. Bought $49, sold $55 → P&L (55 − 49) × 200 × 1 = $1,200. A stock quantity that isn’t a whole number of 100-share lots is read as the contract count it came from and multiplied up, so a row left at qty 2 for those 2 assigned contracts reads as 200.
Dates can arrive in any common shape — 2026-02-06, 9/10/2025, 18/11/25, 06/03/2026 — and are rewritten to YYYY-MM-DD. Where a date could be read two ways, the file decides for itself: one unmistakable day-first date (18/11/25) makes the whole file day-first, one unmistakable month-first date (8/25/26) makes it month-first. A shape we can’t read is left exactly as you typed it.
| Instrument | Date | Action | Size | Price | Fees | P&L | Status | Strategy | Notes |
|---|
No trades yet — download the template, fill it in, and upload to start your journal.
Your journal is private to your account. A lapsed plan can still read and export it.
Built for the wheel. Every reading here assumes you are selling
cash-secured puts, taking assignment when it comes, and selling calls against the shares —
the entry timing, the buy-back marks and the assignment accounting are all judged that way.
Run it over other strategies and it will still produce numbers, but they may say little
about how you actually traded. Every buy-back is judged against the rule we teach —
take 30% inside the first 7 days, 50% after that — so "your rule" on a card means that.
Each short put is matched to its closing (buy-to-close) leg by contract — same symbol · strike · expiry — to find your exit; a put with no close that has passed expiry is treated as held to expiry. Figures are Black–Scholes estimates from daily price history, not live option quotes, so they are indicative — verify against your broker before trading. Estimates only, not financial advice.
Trade by trade
newest first · figures are model estimates