Options, meet AI.
One cash-secured put, told as a story — before you sell, while it is open, after it closes — built and run with moomoo Skills. A system you can repeat every week, not a tip for tonight.
This is education, not advice. Every number on these pages is demonstration data. Options can lose money. Nothing here is a shortcut, and there are no guaranteed returns.
Three moments in a trade.
If you sell options, you get stuck in the same three places. Selling is simple. Keeping track is hard.
Where do I sell?
People pick a round number. The market already priced a range. Start with a filtered list, not a guess.
What do I watch?
Fifteen positions. One is in trouble. You forgot which. Earnings dates and expiry weeks come for everyone.
Did it work?
The balance went up. You still don't know if you got better. A high win rate can still lose money.
Selling is like being the insurer.
Someone pays you a small fee. You promise to buy if the price falls to a line you chose.
You name a price
Only on a stock you would be happy to own. Every disaster starts with a fat premium on a stock you never wanted.
You collect a fee
That fee is the premium — pay for a promise, not free money.
Most days — nothing
The price stays above your line. You keep the fee.
Some days — you buy
That was the deal. So the line you picked matters. That is the whole system.
A credit spread is the same idea with a safety net: you also buy a cheaper promise, so the worst case has a number. The strike screen below supports both — neither is a guarantee.
Three generations of the same trade.
The strategy never changed. The tooling did. Each generation removed another hour of manual work.
The Seller Dashboard
Manual screening on moomoo's seller dashboard — you run the filters, you copy the numbers, you keep the spreadsheet.
Read the article ↗ ↗ 2nd Gen · AImoomoo AI · Expert Mode
You ask, moomoo AI screens. Expected move, IV and chains in one prompt. Faster — but you re-ask the same questions every week.
Read the article ↗ ↗ Next Gen · Skillsmoomoo Skills — install it once
Skills connect Claude to your moomoo data. The whole workflow below runs as one repeatable system — before, during and after.
Install guide ↗ ↗The cash-secured put workflow, in seven steps.
One repeatable loop — the “wheel”: sell a put, take the shares if they land, sell calls on them, repeat. Steps 1–3 happen before, 4–5 run during, and steps 6–7 turn it into your own system.
Start with a list, not a guess.
The premarket screener hunts cash-secured puts that pay over 1% per cycle, with the strike 15–20% below today’s price — your margin of safety. Buy a good stock at a discount, or keep the fee.
- Stage-2 uptrend filter: price above its rising 20/30-day moving averages, 50-day above 200-day
- Put strike 15–20% below today’s price, 30–45 days out, premium from the live options chain
- Return shown per cycle and per year (annualised) — a filter, not a recommendation
| Ticker | Discount | Premium | ROI | Days left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | −16% | $4.10 | 1.9% | 35 |
| AMD | −18% | $3.35 | 1.6% | 35 |
| MSFT | −15% | $5.90 | 1.3% | 42 |
| GOOGL | −20% | $3.05 | 1.1% | 42 |
Price the promise. Know the worst case.
The calculator turns one put into plain numbers: premium after fees, return per cycle, return per year — and the assignment bill: the cash you need if the shares land.
- Cycle return = net premium ÷ (strike × 100) — the money you actually keep
- Worst case: you buy 100 shares at the strike. The tool sizes the margin buffer
- Cap it: max % of account per position, so one promise can't sink your whole account
Don't guess where the price will go.
The orange cone is the expected move — the price range the options market has already priced in — drawn straight from the chain over the technical chart. A strike outside the cone is a different bet from a strike inside it — the board names which one you are choosing.
- Expected move lines by expiry — the normal range (1×) and the extreme range (2×) — drawn over the chart
- Strike board: distance below price, chance of assignment, fee (credit), liquidity, cash needed, ROI
- Two modes: wheel mode (sell puts, own shares) and credit-spread mode (put with a safety net)
Earnings has a date. Look before you hold.
Real moomoo Historical Earnings Data for Stock X (a US large-cap, name hidden) — switch the view to “Last 20 Releases” and you get about five years of earnings (2021–2026), from 14 days before each earnings date to 14 days after. More history makes the picture steadier — and shows which “patterns” were just noise.
T−14 → T−1 · before each earnings report
Earnings day · close vs prior close
T+1 → T+14 · after each earnings report
9 releases vs 20 releases — what changes when the sample grows.
- The pattern that faded: with the last 9 releases, the stock closed lower two weeks after earnings 6 of 9 times. Over 20 releases it is 11 of 20 — close to a coin flip. A pattern that fades as the sample grows is usually noise.
- What held up: the run-up into earnings — 15 of 20 higher two weeks out, median +10.3%. This period also includes a strong multi-year uptrend, so part of that is simply the trend.
- Expected move: the earnings-day close stayed inside the options-implied move 13 of 19 times (68%). All 6 misses were bigger up moves (+24.4%, +16.4%, +14.0%, +9.3%…) — the band is a size estimate, not a direction. Implied volatility (IV) fell after 12 of the 13 releases that have IV data — median 11.1%.
- Is 20 still a small sample? Yes — it is better than 9, but each release is one noisy event and the market regime changed a lot in five years. Even 15 of 20 (75%) is statistically consistent with anything from about 53% to 89%. Use it as context to check against your expiry date, not as a forecast.
Before, during, after: how far did Stock X move — and which way?
20 real releases, three windows. For a cash-secured put, the question is not "up or down?" — it's "how often did it fall past my strike?"
BEFORE · T−14 → T−1 · the run-up into the print
EARNINGS DAY · close vs prior close · the print itself
AFTER · T+1 → T+14 · the two weeks after
Sell the put during the run-up, expiring before earnings
The stock fell more than 2% in the two weeks before earnings in 4 of 20 releases (20%). Worst: −9.9%. You avoid the earnings gap, but you still need a margin of safety.
HISTORY: HELD 16 OF 20Hold through earnings for the IV crush, strike below the expected move
IV fell after 12 of 13 releases (median 11.1%) — the extra earnings premium comes out. A strike at the lower edge of the expected move never closed below it on earnings day (0 of 19), but 4 of 19 were below it two weeks later (2 at 1.5× the move).
HISTORY: HELD ON THE DAY, NOT ALWAYS AFTERSell after a drop, expecting a rebound
After the 9 earnings-day drops, the stock was higher two weeks later only 3 times. The after-earnings window was down more than 2% in 10 of 20 releases — the widest range of the three.
HISTORY: DIDN'T HOLD (3 OF 9)Don't use a spreadsheet. Use a board.
Every sell-put position on one timeline — different expiries, premiums and assignment risks in one view. Watch each expiry easily — the board suggests two actions: roll, or get assigned the shares.
- One bar is one trade; the white line is today; click a bar to spotlight it
- Risk meter: safe → watch → elevated → critical, sorted by days left
- Alerts can reach you on Telegram — a message that finds you, not a dashboard you forget to open
Price is through the strike. 3 contracts = RM 70,500 of stock if you get the shares.
Action: roll, or get assigned the shares.
Keep score so you get better.
Old positions + current positions = one trade journal. Import your filled trades from moomoo and AI reads your trades: expectancy, break-evens, strategy performance — the wheel judged as part of your whole portfolio.
- Four numbers: trades, net P&L, win rate — and expectancy (average profit per trade), the one that matters
- Equity curve, monthly P&L, best/worst trades, where your profit actually comes from
- Nothing is uploaded — the file is read in your browser, stays on your device
Once you have the base, make it yours.
Feature combo
AI + Skills. Keep moomoo AI's screens and extend them — your own filters, your own tickers, run on schedule.
Data combo
AI + Skills. Pull the same options chains and earnings data AI uses, into reports shaped the way you read them.
Not available? Build it
Skills only. If a feature doesn't exist yet, Skills + AI agent can build the missing piece — like every tool in this playbook.
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