Option ideas by ticker / MRK
MRK cash-secured puts & covered calls
Quotes as of Oct 22, 2026, 4:01 PM ET, from the latest completed scan. Screening data from OptionClaw’s scan of the full options chain, sized on a $100k reserve.
Cash-secured puts
- Contracts screened
- 39
- Highest annualized among these contracts
- 31.4%
- Widest cushion
- 25.4%
- Nearest expiry
- 2026-11-27
Balanced 1 · Special review 38
Sample contract — highest-quality bucket, then score (not the richest premium)
- Expiry
- 2027-03-19 (148d)
- Strike
- $125.00
- Bid
- $3.20
- Annualized
- 6.3%
- Cushion
- 15.2%
- Breakeven
- $121.80
- Open int.
- 1,504
- Bucket
- Balanced
Earnings before expiry
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Covered calls
- Contracts screened
- 26
- Highest annualized among these contracts
- 45.0%
- Most upside to strike
- 8.4%
- Nearest expiry
- 2026-11-27
Balanced 8 · Special review 18
Sample contract — highest-quality bucket, then score (not the richest premium)
- Expiry
- 2027-01-15 (85d)
- Strike
- $150.00
- Bid
- $8.95
- Annualized
- 26.1%
- To strike
- 6.1%
- Breakeven
- $138.52
- Open int.
- 3,397
- Bucket
- Balanced
Earnings before expiryLittle upside room above spot
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OptionClaw is software, not a broker or adviser. These rows are screening output, not recommendations: selling a put obligates you to buy 100 shares per contract at the strike, and a covered call caps your upside at the strike. Quotes can be delayed; verify with your broker before trading.