Will Washburn

Founder, Telemetry

Builder of Telemetry and a hands-on options-wheel trader. Writes about tracking net worth, running the wheel, and seeing the real numbers behind your money.

Posts by Will Washburn

Options

The options wheel strategy, explained (and how to actually track it)

How the options wheel works, from cash-secured puts to assignment to covered calls, and why a brokerage statement can't tell you what it's really earning.

Options

Why I run the options wheel (and how it broke my last spreadsheet)

The part of me that wants to VTI and chill, the part that wants to do something, and how the options wheel satisfied both, right up until tracking it by hand fell apart.

Net worth

From Scrooge McDuck to a line that goes up and to the right

How my idea of wealth grew up, from a kid picturing a pool of gold coins, to assets minus debt, to just wanting one honest number I could watch climb over time.

Budgeting

My budgeting journey, from cash-flow guessing to a system I couldn't keep up with

How my budgeting grew up with me, from projecting whether I could cover the car payment, to saving for a ring, to a granular category-and-goal system that got too heavy to manage by hand.

Company

Why I built Telemetry

I was tired of piecing my family's whole financial picture together by hand across spreadsheets, brokerage statements, and a dozen browser tabs. So I built one tool to hold all of it.