Cash-secured put screener
Income trades,
odds first.
YieldProof ranks cash-secured puts by probability of profit and yield. A put pays you a premium today for agreeing to buy a stock at a lower price — and we show the realistic bad case in dollars, not vibes.
Every pick paper-traded at the bid. Losses included.
Sell the $195 put · 32 days to expiry
70% odds of profit. XYZ has to stay above $190.30, the breakeven, until expiry. Trades like this still lose about 3 times in 10.
One score, no black box
Full methodology →odds × yield
The ranking is a formula
Probability of profit × annualized premium yield. Both inputs are shown on every trade. Sorting by yield alone surfaces the riskiest trades — weighting by odds is what keeps the list honest.
filled at the bid
Conservative by default
Premiums assume you sell at the bid — the price you can actually get, not the optimistic midpoint. Illiquid contracts, wide spreads, and earnings weeks are filtered out before you see them.
the bad case, in dollars
Risk you can read
Every trade shows what you’d lose if the stock lands at its statistical 10th-percentile price. Not a worst case — a realistic bad one, so you can size positions sensibly.
Fair questions
Will these trades make money?
Nobody can promise that, and we don’t. A 70%-odds trade loses three times out of ten. What we promise is honest math, conservative fills, and a public record of every pick — including the losers.
Is this financial advice?
No. YieldProof is an educational screener. The rankings are impersonal and identical for every visitor — we don’t know your portfolio and never tailor picks to it.
Why only cash-secured puts?
Because it is the one income trade a beginner can fully see before entering. When you sell a put, the credit, the cash set aside, the breakeven, and the odds are all known up front, and the worst outcome is owning a stock you chose at a lower price. One strategy, explained properly, is worth more than four explained in passing.
How much money do I need?
Enough cash to buy 100 shares at the strike. A put at $50 ties up $5,000; a put at $195 ties up $19,500. Every trade shows the figure, and you can filter by it. Smaller accounts will see fewer trades.