Cash-secured puts on SOFI
SoFi Technologies was trading at $16.91 when this page was last refreshed on September 16, 2026. 9 out-of-the-money SOFI puts sat in the 0.15 to 0.25 delta band, paying $20 to $34 a contract against $1,500 of cash you would have to set aside per contract. None of them came back with a score.
Numbers on this page come from a snapshot taken on September 16, 2026. They are not live quotes and are not refreshed when you load the page.
| Expiry | Strike | Bid / ask | Premium | Cash secured | Annualized | Keep odds | Break-even |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 25 9d | $16.00 | $0.19 / $0.20 | $20 | $1,600 | 49.4% | 77% | $15.81 |
| October 2 16d | $15.50 | $0.19 / $0.20 | $20 | $1,550 | 28.7% | 83% | $15.31 |
| October 9 23d | $15.50 | $0.27 / $0.28 | $28 | $1,550 | 28.2% | 78% | $15.23 |
| October 16 30d | $15.00 | $0.24 / $0.25 | $25 | $1,500 | 19.9% | 81% | $14.76 |
| October 23 37d | $15.00 | $0.30 / $0.32 | $31 | $1,500 | 20.4% | 80% | $14.69 |
| October 30 44d | $14.50 | $0.32 / $0.36 | $34 | $1,450 | 19.4% | 82% | $14.16 |
One row per expiration: the out-of-the-money strike closest to the middle of the delta band. The cash-secured column is the full obligation, strike times 100, because that is the capital the return has to be measured against and it is the number most screeners quietly leave out.
The capital number is the trade
Every screener quotes a cash-secured put by its premium. The premium is the small number. Selling the $15.00 put expiring October 16 pays $25 and commits $1,500 in cash for 30 days, which works out to 1.6% on the money you tied up, or 19.9% annualized.
Your break-even is $14.76, 12.7% below where the stock was trading. That is the price you would effectively be buying 100 shares at if you get assigned, and it is the only number that should decide the strike. One question, asked honestly: would you buy SOFI at $14.76 and hold it? If the answer is no, $25 is not the reason to say yes.
What the premium is priced off
49% at the money is well above a market-average tape. You get paid more here. You get paid more here because it moves more.
Can you actually get filled
Median bid-ask spread is 5.1% of the mid, widening to 11.8% on the worst strike here. Workable, but do not send a market order. Open interest is deep, 4,288 contracts at the median strike, so getting out early is not a problem.
Dates that matter in this window
Earnings land inside the 45-day window. That is the one date that reliably breaks a premium-selling trade: the stock gaps, the strike you picked on a probability model turns out to have been picked on the wrong distribution, and the vol you sold collapses to reward the buyer instead of you. The engine deducts heavily for it.
The worst case, stated properly
Max loss on this trade is $1,476, which is what you lose if SOFI goes to zero. Nobody plans for zero. A 25% gap on bad news is not exotic though, and on the $15.00 strike that is roughly $208 of unrealized loss against $25 collected. 8 cycles of premium, in one print.
That is the picking-up-pennies critique and it describes the risk correctly. It is a bad argument against the strategy and a very good argument for position sizing, because the trade goes wrong when eight positions in the same sector gap together, not when one does.
What the annualized column hides
The best annualized number in this ladder is 49.4%, on the $16.00 strike expiring September 25. It is $20 of actual cash. It annualizes well because it is a 9-day contract, and annualizing a two-week trade assumes you find twenty-six more like it, at the same premium, with the same risk. You will not.
Questions people actually ask
How much cash do you need to sell a put on SOFI?
Strike times 100 per contract, in full. On the $15.00 strike above that is $1,500 sitting in the account per contract, doing nothing else for 30 days. A broker that lets you post less is giving you margin, which is a different trade with a different risk profile whatever the ticket calls it.
What is the break-even on a SOFI cash-secured put?
Strike minus the premium per share. On the $15.00 strike expiring October 16 that is $14.76, which is 12.7% below where the stock was at the snapshot. Below that price you are down money on the position, premium included.
Is selling puts on SOFI a good idea right now?
This page does not answer that, and neither does the number of strikes in the table. What the app can say is that at the last refresh not one of the 9 in-band SOFI puts came back with a score. There is no minimum score, so a high place in the order means better than the rest of this chain, nothing more. Read how the scoring works, and the disclaimer, before you treat any of this as a view.
Read this as a snapshot, not a suggestion. It is where the SOFI chain stood on September 16, 2026, and every price in it has already changed.