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? Follow Stay Home Trading — the guide covers the basics.
Do your own due diligence on every row. Rows are ranked on the setup's timing only — not the chart, not upcoming earnings, not whether the stock suits you.
What kind of stock are you after?
Pick one. Every answer can be changed later.
How much cash do you want to put to work?
Three answers. Anything you skip keeps a sensible default.
Raw filters, saved settings and the option-chain figures all live in Experienced trader mode.
Ready — here is what you asked for
Check it over, then run the screen.
Scans every name in the list. Wide ranges can take a minute or more.
⏳This can take a minute. Each chart is fetched on its own, so the count climbs steadily — the app is working, not stuck. You can leave this tab open and come back.
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⏳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.
| Stock | Price | Quality to enter | You'd buy at | Cash tied up | You'd collect | Return · 5 wks | Shares traded a day | Why it passed |
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Each position groups its legs by strategy id, so a sell and its buy-to-close sit together. P&L is that contract's sell premium minus its buy premium.
On an option row, 2 contracts is 200 shares of exposure — your CSV keeps writing contracts, only the display spells the shares out. Stock rows are already in shares, in whole lots of 100.
Other strategies upload and display fine, but the totals, the position count and the win rate assume cash-secured puts, assignment and covered calls — they may not describe how you traded it.
| Instrument | Date | Action | Size | Price | Fees | P&L | Status | Strategy |
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Analytics replays the journal you uploaded under Journal — nothing changes here until that upload does. Upload or replace it there, then hit Re-run. The chip by the title says how many of those trades this run could analyse.
Every reading 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.