Option ideas by ticker / SMH
SMH 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
- 233
- Highest annualized among these contracts
- 49.6%
- Widest cushion
- 52.2%
- Nearest expiry
- 2026-11-27
Balanced 49 · Special review 184
Sample contract — highest-quality bucket, then score (not the richest premium)
- Expiry
- 2027-03-19 (148d)
- Strike
- $425.00
- Bid
- $13.70
- Annualized
- 7.9%
- Cushion
- 18.8%
- Breakeven
- $411.30
- Open int.
- 247
- Bucket
- Balanced
Earnings date unknown — event risk not screened
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Covered calls
- Contracts screened
- 36
- Highest annualized among these contracts
- 50.0%
- Most upside to strike
- 9.7%
- Nearest expiry
- 2026-11-27
Balanced 13 · Special review 23
Sample contract — highest-quality bucket, then score (not the richest premium)
- Expiry
- 2027-01-15 (85d)
- Strike
- $525.00
- Bid
- $38.05
- Annualized
- 31.2%
- To strike
- 7.3%
- Breakeven
- $485.14
- Open int.
- 6,050
- Bucket
- Balanced
Earnings date unknown — event risk not screenedLittle 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.