Analytics · Education · Monitoring · Paper trading

Sell options with your eyes open.

OptWheel is a professional-grade toolkit for the option wheel — the strategy of selling cash-secured puts and covered calls for income. It prices, screens, monitors and stress-tests the trade honestly, teaches you what the numbers mean, and lets you practise on paper before a penny is at risk. It analyses; you decide.

See plans Explore the toolkit Windows desktop app (beta) · web app coming
Pricing engine
BS + CRR
Black-Scholes, Greeks, American binomial
Live option chains
Real bid/ask/IV
delayed data · per-contract deltas
Delta monitoring
60/30/5 min
buffer zones · desktop alerts
Methodology
16 amendments
documented, testable, honest
01 · The toolkit

Everything the wheel needs, in one terminal

Four workspaces — Learn, Course, Analysis and Trade — cover the full lifecycle: understand the strategy, size the trade, watch the market, and rehearse without risk.

QUOTES + SCREENER

Live chains, ranked candidates

Delayed real option chains with per-contract bid/ask, implied volatility and locally-computed deltas. A transparent screener scores cash-secured-put candidates on income, cushion, probability and instrument quality — with the reasoning spelled out.

DELTA MONITORING

Alerts when it matters

Set a target delta and buffer zones around it. OptWheel polls hourly, tightens to every 30 then 5 minutes as your strike comes under pressure, and fires desktop notifications — while the app runs quietly in the system tray.

PAPER TRADING

Rehearse before you risk

A guided wheel-cycle tracker plus a $1,000,000 sandbox account. Contracts settle at the expiry-day close, positions are marked live, and capital deployment shows what your collateral is really doing.

CALCULATOR + PRICING

Honest probabilities

POP and expected P&L shown under both risk-neutral and real-world assumptions, side by side and labelled. Conditional loss given assignment, breakevens net of commission, Greeks, American early-exercise premium.

MONTE CARLO + BACKTEST

Stress the strategy, not just the stock

Simulate the wheel's own P&L distribution — fat left tail and capped upside included — under GBM, Student-t or jump models. Backtest against buy-and-hold and a CBOE PUT-style benchmark.

COURSE + LEARN

Built to teach, not to hype

A structured course and plain-English explainers on strikes, deltas, assignment and the real risk profile — including the crash scenarios most wheel content glosses over.

02 · Methodology

The honest-numbers policy

Most retail options tools quietly show risk-neutral probabilities and theoretical fills. OptWheel's methodology is written down — 16 documented amendments, applied to every calculation and visible inside the product.

AMENDMENT 01–03

Probabilities that mean what you think

POP measured to breakeven (not the strike), risk-neutral and real-world figures labelled separately, and expected loss given assignment integrated properly instead of assumed.

AMENDMENT 05–06

Fat tails, not fairy tales

IV rank and percentile from observed history, and Monte Carlo models with Student-t and jump options — because the wheel's losses live in the tails a normal curve doesn't show.

AMENDMENT 08–09

Costs and capital, counted

Every P&L figure is net of commissions. Capital requirements shown for both Reg-T cash-secured and portfolio-margin regimes.

AMENDMENT 15

Assumptions on the label

The backtester states exactly what it ignores — slippage, early assignment, dividend timing — so you read results as evidence, not prophecy.

Educational tool · not investment advice. OptWheel is an analytics and education platform. It generates generic analytics and signals; it does not give personal recommendations, and you make and execute all trade decisions with your own broker. Options involve substantial risk of loss — the wheel strategy specifically carries large downside equity risk in sustained market declines. Past performance does not indicate future results.
03 · Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you're ready to trade.

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  • Full structured course & plain-English guides
  • Strategy calculator with honest POP / EV
  • Pricing engine, Greeks & American binomial
  • Monte Carlo & wheel backtester
  • Risk, portfolio & instrument comparison tools
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  • Everything in Core
  • Real-time data
  • IV rank & percentile history
  • Vendor Greeks
  • Priority support
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Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled any time, effective at the end of the current billing period. See the Terms & Conditions for the full subscription terms.

04 · FAQ

Questions, answered plainly

Is OptWheel investment advice?
No. OptWheel is an educational analytics tool. It produces generic, non-personalised analytics — the same numbers for every user with the same inputs. It does not consider your circumstances, does not recommend trades to you personally, and is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. All trading decisions and executions are yours, through your own broker.
Where does the market data come from?
Stock quotes and option chains come from free public market-data sources and are delayed (typically ~15 minutes) and provided without warranty. Option strikes and premiums shown from theoretical models are labelled as such. Always verify prices against your broker's live chain before trading.
Do you see my portfolio or trades?
No. Your positions, paper trades, watchlists and settings are stored locally on your device. Our servers see your account email, subscription status, and the ticker symbols the app requests data for — not your holdings. See the Privacy Policy for details.
What platforms are supported?
A Windows desktop app is available now as a beta (a portable .exe — no install needed — plus an installer). It runs in the system tray so delta monitoring keeps working with the window closed. A browser-based web app and macOS build are planned.
How do I cancel? Do I get a refund?
You can cancel any time from your account menu; access continues to the end of the paid period. Statutory cancellation rights (including the 14-day cooling-off period for UK/EU consumers) are described in the Terms & Conditions.
Can the wheel strategy lose money?
Yes — materially. Selling puts means you absorb the downside of the underlying below your strike, and covered calls cap your upside. High win rates conceal occasional large losses; a sustained market decline can produce losses far exceeding the premium collected. OptWheel's course covers these scenarios explicitly — that honesty is the point of the product.