Cash-secured puts on INTC
Intel Corporation was trading at $118.67 when this page was last refreshed on September 30, 2026. 27 out-of-the-money INTC puts sat in the 0.15 to 0.25 delta band, paying $98 to $318 a contract against $10,100 of cash you would have to set aside per contract. 2 of them came back scored.
Numbers on this page come from a snapshot taken on September 30, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 5 5d | $112.00 | $0.94 / $1.02 | $98 | $11,200 | 63.9% | 78% | $111.02 |
| October 9 9d | $109.00 | $1.28 / $1.33 | $131 | $10,900 | 48.6% | 80% | $107.70 |
| October 16 16d | $106.00 | $1.60 / $1.66 | $163 | $10,600 | 35.1% | 81% | $104.37 |
| October 23 23d | $104.00 | $2.63 / $2.72 | $268 | $10,400 | 40.8% | 79% | $101.33 |
| October 30 30d | $101.00 | $2.75 / $2.84 | $280 | $10,100 | 33.7% | 81% | $98.21 |
| November 6 37d | $100.00 | $3.10 / $3.25 | $318 | $10,000 | 31.3% | 81% | $96.83 |
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 $101.00 put expiring October 30 pays $280 and commits $10,100 in cash for 30 days, which works out to 2.8% on the money you tied up, or 33.7% annualized.
Your break-even is $98.21, 17.2% 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 INTC at $98.21 and hold it? If the answer is no, $280 is not the reason to say yes.
What the premium is priced off
At-the-money implied vol is 73%. That is the kind of number that draws premium sellers in and then runs them over. A 60% IV name can gap 20% on a Tuesday, and the premium that looked like free money on Monday covers about a fifth of that.
Can you actually get filled
Median bid-ask spread across these strikes is 3.8% of the mid. That is tight enough that the spread is not a real cost, which is rarer than it sounds. Open interest is deep, 1,159 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 $9,821, which is what you lose if INTC goes to zero. Nobody plans for zero. A 25% gap on bad news is not exotic though, and on the $101.00 strike that is roughly $921 of unrealized loss against $280 collected. 3 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 63.9%, on the $112.00 strike expiring October 5. It is $98 of actual cash. It annualizes well because it is a 5-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 INTC?
Strike times 100 per contract, in full. On the $101.00 strike above that is $10,100 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 INTC cash-secured put?
Strike minus the premium per share. On the $101.00 strike expiring October 30 that is $98.21, which is 17.2% below where the stock was at the snapshot. Below that price you are down money on the position, premium included.
Is selling puts on INTC 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 2 of 27 in-band puts came back scored, and it would have ranked them and shown you the head of that list. 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 INTC chain stood on September 30, 2026, and every price in it has already changed.