TD Cash-Secured Put Strategy
TD (The Toronto-Dominion Bank), in the Financial Services sector, (Banks - Diversified industry), listed on NYSE.
The Toronto-Dominion Bank, along with its affiliated entities, delivers a comprehensive array of financial solutions and services across Canada, the United States, and various international markets. Its operations are structured into three primary divisions: Canadian Retail, U.S. Retail, and Wholesale Banking. For individual customers, the bank provides fundamental deposit products like checking, savings, and investment accounts. Businesses can access a suite of offerings including funding, investment management, cash flow solutions, international trade facilities, and everyday banking. Furthermore, TD offers point-of-sale financing options for major purchases such as automobiles and recreational vehicles.
TD (The Toronto-Dominion Bank) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banks - Diversified, with a market capitalization of approximately $202.10B, a trailing P/E of 18.94, a beta of 0.88 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 72.21-120.98, average daily share volume of 2.4M, a public-listing history dating back to 1996, approximately 100K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how TD stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.88 places TD roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. TD pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a cash-secured put on TD?
A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike.
Current TD snapshot
As of June 30, 2026, spot at $121.08, ATM IV 18.80%, IV rank 8.98%, expected move 5.39%. The cash-secured put on TD below is built from the same end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 17-day expiry.
Why this cash-secured put structure on TD specifically: TD IV at 18.80% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which means a premium-selling TD cash-secured put collects less credit per unit of strike-width risk, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 5.39% (roughly $6.53 on the underlying). The 17-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated TD expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on TD should anchor to the underlying notional of $121.08 per share and to the trader's directional view on TD stock.
TD cash-secured put setup
The TD cash-secured put below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With TD near $121.08, the first option leg uses a $115.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed TD chain at a 17-day expiry; the cross-strike IV skew is reflected directly in the per-leg values rather than approximated. Quantity sizing assumes one contract per option leg (or 100 TD shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell 1 | Put | $115.00 | $0.48 |
TD cash-secured put risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- +$47.50
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $47.50
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$11,451.50
- Breakeven(s)
- $114.66
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 0.004
Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium.
TD cash-secured put payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the cash-secured put on TD. Each row is one sampled price point from the computed payoff curve; the full curve uses 200 price points internally before being summarized into 10 rows here.
| Underlying Price | % From Spot | P&L at Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | -100.0% | -$11,451.50 |
| $26.78 | -77.9% | -$8,774.46 |
| $53.55 | -55.8% | -$6,097.43 |
| $80.32 | -33.7% | -$3,420.39 |
| $107.09 | -11.6% | -$743.36 |
| $133.86 | +10.6% | +$47.50 |
| $160.63 | +32.7% | +$47.50 |
| $187.40 | +54.8% | +$47.50 |
| $214.17 | +76.9% | +$47.50 |
| $240.94 | +99.0% | +$47.50 |
When traders use cash-secured put on TD
Cash-secured puts on TD earn premium while a trader waits to acquire TD stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning TD.
TD thesis for this cash-secured put
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for TD extends from approximately $114.55 on the downside to $127.61 on the upside. A TD cash-secured put lets a trader earn premium while waiting to acquire TD at the strike price; the strategy is most attractive when the trader is comfortable holding the underlying at that level and IV is rich enough to compensate for the assignment risk. Current TD IV rank near 8.98% sits in the lower third of its 1-year distribution, where IV often re-expands toward the mean; this favors premium-buying structures and disadvantages premium-selling structures on TD at 18.80%. As a Financial Services name, TD options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to TD-specific events.
TD cash-secured put positions are structurally neutral to slightly bullish; the modeled P&L assumes European-style exercise at expiration and ignores early assignment, transaction costs, dividends paid before expiry on the stock leg (when present), and the bid-ask spread on the listed chain. TD positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move TD alongside the broader basket even when TD-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Short-premium structures like a cash-secured put on TD carry tail risk when realized volatility exceeds the implied move; review historical TD earnings reactions and macro stress periods before sizing. Always rebuild the position from current TD chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a cash-secured put on TD?
- A cash-secured put on TD is the cash-secured put strategy applied to TD (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral to slightly bullish: A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike. With TD stock trading near $121.08, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed TD chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are TD cash-secured put max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium. For the TD cash-secured put priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 18.80%), the computed maximum profit is $47.50 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$11,451.50 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a TD cash-secured put?
- The breakeven for the TD cash-secured put priced on this page is roughly $114.66 at expiration, derived from end-of-day chain premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The current TD market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 5.39%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a cash-secured put on TD?
- Cash-secured puts on TD earn premium while a trader waits to acquire TD stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning TD.
- How does current TD implied volatility affect this cash-secured put?
- TD ATM IV is at 18.80% with IV rank near 8.98%, which is on the low end of its 1-year range. Premium-buying structures (long call, long put, debit spreads) are relatively cheap in this regime; premium-selling structures collect less credit per unit risk.