First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF (FTLS) Wheel Strategy

Running a FTLS wheel strategy lets you generate consistent premium income on First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF while setting your own entry and exit prices on the underlying. First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF's wheel combines cash-secured puts and covered calls into a repeatable cycle: sell puts at strikes where you'd be happy to own FTLS, and if assigned, sell calls at strikes where you'd be happy to sell. Use our scanner to find the best FTLS 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 FTLS, 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 FTLS wheel from a losing one.

The Fund's investment objective is to seek to provide investors with long term total return. The Fund intends to pursue its investment objective by establishing long and short positions in a portfolio of Equity Securities.

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 FTLS wheel strategy by delta, premium yield, IV rank, and days to expiration, so you can deploy capital where the math works. Build your FTLS wheel strategy on data, not gut feel — and let the options wheel do what it does best: pay you to wait.