Selling cash-secured puts is simple in theory: you get paid to wait for a stock you want to own at a discount. But in a volatile 2026 market, the difference between collecting consistent income and getting assigned at the top comes down to how you read the data.
In this quick video lesson, contributor Rick Orford explains how to read and interpret the data outputs from our Barchart Put Selling Screener, and how to optimize each one to find the highest probability income trades.
