Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (ACRE) Wheel Strategy

Running a ACRE wheel strategy lets you generate consistent premium income on Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp while setting your own entry and exit prices on the underlying. Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp's wheel combines cash-secured puts and covered calls into a repeatable cycle: sell puts at strikes where you'd be happy to own ACRE, and if assigned, sell calls at strikes where you'd be happy to sell. Use our scanner to find the best ACRE wheel strategy setups in real time.

The wheel works best on liquid, high-quality names with stable fundamentals and active options markets — exactly the profile many large-cap leaders fit. The mechanics are simple: sell a cash-secured put on ACRE, collect premium, and either keep the premium if it expires worthless or take assignment at a discount to current price. Once assigned, sell covered calls against the shares to keep collecting premium until they're called away. Choosing the right strikes, expirations, and IV environment is what separates a profitable ACRE wheel from a losing one.

Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation, a specialty finance company, originates and invests in commercial real estate (CRE) loans and related investments in the United States. The company provides a range of financing solutions for the owners, operators, and sponsors of CRE properties. It originates senior mortgage loans, subordinate debt products, mezzanine loans, real estate preferred equity investments, and other CRE investments, including commercial mortgage backed securities. The company has elected and qualified to be taxed as a real estate investment trust for the United States federal income tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LLC operates as the manager of the company. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

The difference between a wheel that compounds and one that bleeds comes down to strike selection, IV timing, and discipline on assignment. Our scanner handles the heavy lifting: it ranks every leg of the ACRE wheel strategy by delta, premium yield, IV rank, and days to expiration, so you can deploy capital where the math works. Build your ACRE wheel strategy on data, not gut feel — and let the options wheel do what it does best: pay you to wait.