Glossary · Risk Management & Defense · W
Wheel of death in plain English.
Getting assigned shares high, then watching the stock keep falling while you sell calls below your cost — slowly bleeding as the position never recovers.
Track
Risk Management & Defense
13 terms in this track
Taught in
Tail risk, gaps and the wheel of death
In the index
126 of 129
Filed under W
Connections
8
Related terms mapped below
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The idea, in context
How to read the picture above and where the Academy teaches it.
Reading the illustration
Defined risk: the loss has a floor (rose) and the credit a ceiling (gold) — both known before you enter.
In French: Roue de la mort
Where it’s taught
Risk Management & Defense
Tail risk, gaps and the wheel of death
“Tail risk, gaps and the wheel of death” introduces this term with worked examples, a quiz and the trades around it. The Academy is part of the YieldCove membership.
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Connected terms
8 terms around this one — the words its definition uses, its lesson siblings and the terms that build on it.
- Used in this definition
- Same lesson
- Builds on this term
- Same track
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Where to go next
Understand it, try it with real numbers, then track it for free.
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