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u/m4vis 3 days ago Wheel

Downsides to wheeling dividend stocks?

I just want to know if there is something I’m missing here. Normally one of the bigger risks of the wheel is that the stock price plummets so far that it can take a long time to get to your cost basis. If you don’t want to increase your risk or you don’t have the capital to start another wheel at that point to lower your cost basis, you just sell calls with a further strike date but a price still at/above your cost basis and wait. Which can be a long time if the price dropped so much that if you want to sell at a strike price above your cost basis then you may be waiting months for the option to expire. But if you wheel a dividend stock that pays out monthly, in that same situation you can keep reinvesting the cash from the dividend payments + the cc premiums to buy more of the stock and lower your cost basis quicker. Are there downsides I’m not seeing besides the general arguments of dividend stock vs growth stock investing?
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  1. u/TheScaryCommissioner 1 3 days ago
    The dividends get priced into the options so the calls you sell will have less premium than a non-dividend stock with similar volatility, its not some free lunch
  2. u/jvaritek33c 1 3 days ago
    Missing the ex dividend date due to holding csp instead of shares
  3. u/ronaldomike2 1 3 days ago
    Too low implied volatility in options, end up having to sell puts that can be quite close to the money, and things blow up, can sustain significant losses
  4. u/Reeeeeekola 1 3 days ago
    The wheel is stupid and doing it on low IV stocks likely even more stupid.
  5. u/CapedCauliflower 1 3 days ago
    I do it on qqqi and jepq, it works fine.