Hands-off income from your own brokerage account.
Council Capital automates options-income strategies inside your Alpaca brokerage — your money never leaves your account. We handle the execution, the dashboards, and the support. You watch the premium come in.
More than one strategy.
The wheel is our flagship, but the platform is built to automate any rules-based income strategy you already understand — with the same transparency, tooling, and support stack underneath.
Custom strategy automation
A Council Capital RIA — not a salesperson — sits down with you to translate your manual rules into a deterministic algorithm. No technical jargon required: we're trained in this work and have already done it for ourselves before doing it for you.
- Unlimited backtests across history and forward-walk windows
- Custom reports on how each config tweak moves the curve
- Every backtest's code is versioned — we can always revert
- Wheel options, income variants, or any rules you bring
- Rolls, expiries, and assignments handled automatically
Discord-integrated support
Each client gets dedicated, private channels — operational alerts, financial inquiries, and direct line to the engineering team that runs your account.
- Real-time trade alerts and fills
- Take-profit, expiry, and assignment notifications
- Customized channels per portfolio
Auto-syncing wallet
Lifetime premium tracking with tax-aware payout estimates. Always know how much you've actually earned — and how much is safe to withdraw.
- Pre-tax and post-tax balances
- Deposits and withdrawals synced hourly
- Custom tax rate per user
$199 a month. That's it.
One flat subscription for every account size. No AUM percentages — those incentivize managers to grow assets at any cost, including yours. With a flat fee, every dollar your account earns above the fee is yours.
- Same price whether your account is $5K or $5M
- No performance fee, no exit penalty, no AUM creep
- Custom Discord channels, RIA-led strategy work, full dashboard access
- Unlimited backtests + custom config-impact reports
We don't try to beat buy-and-hold. We rent your shares out.
The wheel isn't a "beat-the-market" strategy. It's a cashflow strategy. The chart below is a real backtest — $260K initial, Apr 2023–Apr 2026, AMZN $106 → $248, 30% tax, Δ0.30 puts/calls, 25% take-profit. We compare three withdrawal schedules against just holding AMZN.
The honest framing
- Buy-and-hold AMZN: $100K → $226K (3 years).
- Wheel: $100K → ~$200K equity + $286–304K premium income.
- All three scenarios finish within 6–13% of buy-and-hold in total wealth.
- Difference: real cashflow you can spend, not paper gains.
- The wheel monetizes ownership — it doesn't try to beat the stock.
Why this protects you over time
- Higher strikes need more collateral → algo sells fewer contracts.
- AMZN up 120%, your exposure up 93%, account up 94%.
- Leverage stays flat at ~92%. You're never over-extended at the peak.
| Start (May 2023) | End (May 2026) | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMZN price | ~$117 | ~$258 | +120% |
| Working capital (growth scenario) | $101,360 | $196,921 | +94% |
| Open contracts | 8 | 7 | −13% |
| Capital exposure (contracts × strike × 100) | $93,600 | $180,600 | +93% |
| Leverage (exposure ÷ account) | 92% | 92% | flat |
The wheel's hidden advantage
- We never sell. The point isn't to time the market — it's to ride every wave it gives us. Up days, down days, sideways months — we hold and collect premium.
- Crashes don't drain your wealth. Your original shares stay yours through any drawdown. Our standing promise: we never sell your shares for a single cent below the price you paid.
- Income, not principal. Every dollar paid out comes from option premium — never from chipping away at your stake.
- The tradeoff: in deep drawdowns income pauses while we wait for recovery. Patience is part of the playbook — but your principal is never at risk of being liquidated at the bottom.
The full backtest curves
backtest_growth.csv, backtest_balanced.csv,
and backtest_income.csv into the VM's
static/ directory and refresh.
Built for transparency.
Every client gets the same operations-grade dashboard the founders use to monitor the algorithm. Below is live-styled — these aren't marketing screenshots, this is what you see when you sign in.
Built on Alpaca.
We don't custody your money — your account stays at Alpaca, the API-native broker built for developers and quantitative traders. You sign up, fund the account, share API keys with us, and revoke them any time.
A tech-first broker.
Most online brokers were built around a 1990s web portal. Alpaca was built around an API. That matters because it means our algorithm executes orders the same way an institutional desk does: programmatically, with predictable latency, and with every fill traceable through structured logs.
- SIPC-insured U.S. broker-dealer, regulated by FINRA
- Native programmatic access — no third-party bridge required
- Commission-free equities, transparent options pricing
- You revoke API access any time, instantly
- Paper-trading environment for testing the system risk-free
Built by veterans of Wall Street and Big Tech.
Council Capital was built by someone who has seen both sides of the equation: how Wall Street builds the real-time data infrastructure that powers modern markets, and how production-grade systems get engineered to run safely at scale.
The founder began his career as a data engineer at Goldman Sachs, building real-time data pipelines for the firm's trading and risk systems. He then moved to Citibank, where he built AI tools and got hands-on exposure to modern fintech infrastructure. From there he spent six years at Amazon / AWS building the kind of production engineering that runs 24/7 with no human in the loop — the same discipline that powers Council Capital's execution stack today. He is Series 65-licensed and Council Capital is registered as an LLC with the regulatory disclosures required by the SEC and applicable state authorities for the services we offer.
From interest to income, in four steps.
No long sales process. Four steps, then the algorithm runs.
Request access
Drop your email and phone. We respond personally within 24 hours.
Open Alpaca
We walk you through opening the brokerage and generating API keys.
We provision you
Your private dashboard and Discord channels go live. Fund the account.
Withdraw or compound
Watch premium accumulate. Pull it out whenever, or let it compound.
Ready to put your capital to work?
Request access — we'll get back within a day with onboarding details.