STRASMORE/EXPLORE 2,170 QUERIES

Covered call vs cash-secured put: profit and loss per share, same strike, same expiry

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-07-31, from Covered Call vs Cash-Secured Put.

as of series 29×3read in context →
Covered call vs cash-secured put: profit and loss per share, same strike, same expiry — 29 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
datecovered_call_plcash_secured_put_pl
2026-05-0100
2026-05-04-0.62-1.16
2026-05-054.491.74
2026-05-064.144.83
2026-05-074.514.57
2026-05-087.066.06
2026-05-117.626.16
2026-05-126.16.15
2026-05-139.397.6
2026-05-1410.269.07
2026-05-157.326.44
2026-05-189.457.4
2026-05-198.156.08
2026-05-207.258.42
2026-05-2112.019.46
2026-05-229.9710.17
2026-05-2613.4911.3
2026-05-2712.6111.83
2026-05-2814.6512.64
2026-05-2913.8212.8
2026-06-0113.1513.05
2026-06-0215.4713.35
2026-06-031113.04
2026-06-0412.1513.49
2026-06-0512.138.39
2026-06-0813.3911.21
2026-06-0912.4210.21
2026-06-107.596.45
2026-06-1116.0411.73
Rows × columns
29 × 3
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Covered call vs cash-secured put: profit and loss per share, same strike, same expiry, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
date date 2026-05-01 to 2026-06-11
covered_call_pl number -0.62 to 16.04
cash_secured_put_pl number -1.16 to 13.49

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH entry AS (
    SELECT avgIf(option_close, ticker = 'O:SPY260618C00720000') AS call0,
           avgIf(option_close, ticker = 'O:SPY260618P00720000') AS put0,
           avg(underlying_close) AS spy0
    FROM global_markets.options_greeks
    WHERE ticker IN ('O:SPY260618C00720000', 'O:SPY260618P00720000')
      AND date = '2026-05-01'
      AND implied_volatility > 0.02
)
SELECT g.date AS date,
       round(avg(g.underlying_close) - any(entry.spy0) + any(entry.call0)
             - avgIf(g.option_close, g.ticker = 'O:SPY260618C00720000'), 2) AS covered_call_pl,
       round(any(entry.put0)
             - avgIf(g.option_close, g.ticker = 'O:SPY260618P00720000'), 2) AS cash_secured_put_pl
FROM global_markets.options_greeks g, entry
WHERE g.ticker IN ('O:SPY260618C00720000', 'O:SPY260618P00720000')
  AND g.date BETWEEN '2026-05-01' AND '2026-06-15'
  AND g.implied_volatility > 0.02
GROUP BY g.date
HAVING countIf(g.ticker = 'O:SPY260618C00720000') > 0
   AND countIf(g.ticker = 'O:SPY260618P00720000') > 0
ORDER BY g.date

Run your own version of this

The same 22 years of US equities and 12 years of options data are queryable in SQL or plain English. A free account runs 100 queries a day and takes no card.

More from this analysisCovered Call vs Cash-Secured Put
What each strike paid on May 1, 2026: SPY June 18 calls and puts side by side ranking 8×3 Both positions at four moments: entry, three weeks in, the SPY high, and the June dip table 4×5 Price path indexed to 100: two index funds and their covered call counterparts, month ends series 36×5 Three years of total return, split into price change and distributions: July 2023 to June 2026 table 8×7 Total return by calendar year: a Nasdaq index fund vs a Nasdaq covered call fund ranking 4×3 SPY's closing price across the contract window, May 1 to Jun 15 2026 series 31×2 See all 2,170 queries →