FolioTrackingTrack all your option trades in one journal
An options tracker should explain what you opened, what changed and what remains open—not just total the cash received. FolioTracking brings imported and manually recorded option activity into a journal, with contract details, strategy labels and premium views. Keep the broker statement as your source of truth.
The journal covers buying and selling calls and puts. A purchased option involves premium paid; a written option involves premium received and an obligation. Preserve that distinction rather than treating every opening trade as income. Check quantity, direction, expiry, strike, currency and the contract multiplier against your report.
Keep contract identity and direction clear
The same underlying can have several calls or puts with different strikes and expiries. Track each contract separately. An opening sale, closing purchase, opening purchase and closing sale have different meanings; a ticker alone cannot identify the position or establish whether it is still open.
Open positions and the trade journal answer related but different questions. The former describes remaining contracts; the latter preserves activity, including closed records. Missing opening history can prevent a complete reconstruction. Do not invent an earlier premium or cost just to make an incomplete report balance.
Covered calls, puts and recorded spreads
A covered call is a short call backed by underlying shares. FolioTracking uses the recorded holdings and contract information for its strategy labels. For a standard 100-share contract, one short call needs 100 shares; adjusted contracts may differ. A label does not establish broker margin approval or eliminate risk.
A cash-secured put involves a short put and cash available for a possible purchase at the strike. Check that cash with your broker. The tracker is not a collateral or suitability checker. Long calls and long puts remain purchases, not premium-income strategies simply because they appear in the same journal.
Recorded credit spreads can be grouped for multi-leg display when the explicit legs are available. Review both contracts, quantities, expiries and premiums. A missing long leg is not inferred from a strategy name. This display is not an order-entry system or a promise to recognize every complex combination.
Rolls, expirations, assignments and exercise
A roll closes one contract and opens another. For example, buying to close a short call and selling to open a different strike should leave the new call open. Preserve both executions, dates and fees; a net roll credit alone does not describe the two positions.
The journal's roll action records that change. Broker imports need the relevant legs before the result can appear. Activity Flex reports may not include today's roll until the overnight statement run, so review the report's data-through date before making a duplicate manual entry.
Keep expiration, assignment and exercise records when the report supplies them. Assignment or exercise may also change the underlying shares. Check those share movements separately: an option marked closed is not proof that the corresponding stock movement is present. Record missing events from source evidence, not an assumed balancing transaction.
Premium income versus completed results
Monthly Premiums and Income Breakdown organize the recorded option activity. All premium includes cash-basis activity from open trades; Closed only focuses on completed trades. Ticker and strategy groupings change the view, not the underlying executions.
Premium received is not automatically realized profit. Closing costs, premium paid and fees matter. Never add a premium chart again to a result that already includes the opening and closing cash flows. Open-contract marks, where reliable broker data exists, are dated estimates—not guaranteed closing prices. This guide makes no live option pricing claim.
Tracking the wheel strategy
The wheel is one use of the journal: track a cash-secured put, any assignment into shares, and a covered call against those shares. Preserve strike proceeds, share cost and option cash flows as distinct records. An assignment changes the share history; premium alone does not prove shares were bought or sold.
Review and risk
Options can expire worthless, create assignment obligations and cause substantial losses. Covered calls cap upside; cash-secured puts retain downside exposure. Tracking is not investment advice. Verify records with your broker and keep backups. Start with the IBKR Flex Query guide; keep share income separate using dividend tracking and forecasts.
Free public beta. Informational tracking, not investment advice. Verify figures with your broker.