Cash-Secured Puts Under $50

The best low-priced put-selling candidates combine a share price under $50 with liquid options, moderate implied volatility, and a business you'd be happy to own at the strike. Accessible names like Ford, AT&T, Pfizer, Intel, and SoFi are common examples — but always confirm current price, IV, the next earnings date, and your own conviction before selling. This screen surfaces the live setups; the ranked list updates every 10 minutes.

Strike price × 100 per contract. A $12 strike reserves about $1,200; a $45 strike reserves $4,500. Staying under $50 lets a $5,000–$10,000 account secure two or three positions across different sectors instead of tying everything up in one expensive name — the main reason smaller accounts favor lower-priced underlyings.

Not inherently — price and risk are different. A low-priced, stable, dividend-paying name can be lower risk than an expensive high-flyer. The real danger is selling puts on a stock that's cheap because it's declining, since assignment means buying 100 shares of a falling name. Screen for quality and options liquidity first, then price.

By the 0–100 Opportunity Score used across CoverEdge's screeners: it blends bid-based income, assignment risk (delta), expected-move coverage, liquidity, and duration, minus an earnings penalty. That keeps realistic, tradeable setups on top instead of promoting the single most volatile low-priced name just because its raw yield looks enormous.