PyImageSearch founder launches WheelMetrics to put stocks before options premiums

Adrian Rosebrock, founder of PyImageSearch, launched WheelMetrics, a $45-a-month stock-screening and education service for retail options traders, on August 25th. The service uses a 'quantamental' approach to prioritize stock selection over options premiums and includes a model portfolio dating to January 1st. Rosebrock, who sold PyImageSearch in 2021, aims to help traders avoid losses from poor stock choices in the Wheel Strategy.

PyImageSearch founder launches WheelMetrics to put stocks before options premiums The $45-a-month service has a five-month CPA verification and a model portfolio dating to January 1st. By RuntimeWire Staff /author/runtimewire-staff · Published Primary source: PR Newswire https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wheelmetrics-brings-systematic-stock-selection-to-retail-investors-using-the-wheel-strategy-302859833.html Why it matters WheelMetrics turns a technical founder's teaching and screening experience into a subscription fintech product. Its wedge is stock selection, while its main test is whether a months-old record can survive a full market cycle. Adrian Rosebrock @PyImageSearch https://x.com/PyImageSearch?ref=runtimewire , the computer scientist who built and sold the AI education business PyImageSearch, used an August 25th announcement https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wheelmetrics-brings-systematic-stock-selection-to-retail-investors-using-the-wheel-strategy-302859833.html?ref=runtimewire to formally introduce WheelMetrics https://wheelmetrics.io/?ref=runtimewire , a stock-screening and education service for retail options traders. WheelMetrics had already started publishing tutorials by April 2026. The announcement puts a wider marketing push behind Rosebrock's second act: applying the screen-building and teaching playbook he developed in computer vision to a market full of traders who can learn an options strategy in an afternoon, then lose money by choosing the wrong stock. Rosebrock earned a computer science Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2014. His dissertation https://www.csee.umbc.edu/research/phd-graduates/?ref=runtimewire concerned image classification, and his graduate work covered artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning. He was already building companies during school. A 2012 UMBC profile https://news.cs.umbc.edu/2012/10/adrian-rosebrock/?ref=runtimewire described ShiftyBits, his company that won a National Cancer Institute contract to analyze breast-histology images, along with projects for identifying prescription pills and finding clothing through visual search. He later turned that mix of technical instruction and entrepreneurship into PyImageSearch https://pyimagesearch.com/about/?ref=runtimewire . WheelMetrics says Rosebrock produced nine books and more than 500 tutorials before selling PyImageSearch in 2021. The buyer and transaction price were not named. A screen builder changes domains After the sale, Rosebrock says he spent about five years studying quantitative trading, swing trading, fundamental investing and portfolio management. He also manages AltFnd Capital, which he describes as a small friends-and-family investment fund. WheelMetrics grew from a recurring question among friends: How did he decide which stocks to use for options trades? That question points to the gap Rosebrock is selling against. The Wheel Strategy begins with a trader selling a cash-secured put on shares they are prepared to buy. If assigned, the trader owns the shares and can sell covered calls against them. Premium income receives much of the attention, while the underlying business can become an afterthought until the stock falls and assignment turns a short-term trade into an unwanted holding. WheelMetrics moves the stock decision to the front. Rosebrock calls the process "quantamental": quantitative screening narrows the field, fundamental analysis tests the companies, and options analysis comes afterward. His stated rule is straightforward. A trader should be willing to own the business before considering the premium. That framing also separates WheelMetrics from scanners such as ThetaScanner https://thetascanner.com/?ref=runtimewire and QuantWheel https://quantwheel.com/?ref=runtimewire , which help users filter options contracts by variables such as delta, implied volatility, strike and premium. WheelMetrics focuses on deciding which companies should enter that scan in the first place. Rosebrock says he uses ThetaScanner himself. What $45 a month buys WheelMetrics Pro https://wheelmetrics.io/faq/?ref=runtimewire costs $45 per month or $450 per year, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Subscribers receive a weekly spreadsheet containing five to 10 pre-screened stocks, quality scores, fundamental grades and valuation metrics. WheelMetrics also supplies options scans with strikes, delta, days to expiration and premium analysis, plus trade theses, risk profiles, watchlists and position-management guidance. WheelMetrics is an education and screening product. It does not execute trades, hold customer assets or provide individualized investment advice. That distinction matters because options selling can create stock-purchase obligations far larger than the premium collected. Rosebrock's own materials suggest at least $10,000 to begin using the strategy and $25,000 or more for meaningful diversification, though those figures remain his guidance rather than a universal threshold. Rosebrock has chosen a direct answer to the trust problem surrounding paid trading education. "You don't - not yet. And honestly, you should be skeptical," he writes in the WheelMetrics FAQ https://wheelmetrics.io/faq/?ref=runtimewire . The rest of his answer is a commitment to publish his reasoning and submit his personal portfolio figures to outside checking. A verified snapshot, with a short clock Rosebrock started the WheelMetrics model portfolio with $27,000 of his own capital on January 1st. The WheelMetrics homepage https://wheelmetrics.io/?ref=runtimewire reported 41 closed trades, a 92.5% win rate and a 10.5% cash-basis return through July 31st. Those are company-published figures from a track record measured in months. The latest public outside review covers a shorter period. In a June performance report https://wheelmetrics.io/blog/wheelmetrics-pro-verified-results-2026-h1/?ref=runtimewire , WheelMetrics said California CPA Piyush Roy checked Charles Schwab records from January 1st through May 31st. Roy recomputed 26 closed trades, a 92.3% win rate and a 12.69% period return, while confirming that no money entered or left the account during the period. The engagement used agreed-upon procedures under accounting standards. It was not a financial audit, an endorsement of the strategy or a test of how WheelMetrics subscribers performed. Five months also says little about drawdowns, risk-adjusted returns or how the approach handles a prolonged decline. Rosebrock acknowledges the short window and says he plans to commission checks every six months. The decision to seek external verification gives WheelMetrics something more substantial than screenshots while leaving the central investment question open: whether Rosebrock's process holds up across market cycles and outside his own account. Selling discipline into an options boom WheelMetrics is arriving after another expansion in US options activity. Options Clearing Corporation data https://www.theocc.com/newsroom/views/2026/01-05-occ-annual-2025-and-december-2025-volume?ref=runtimewire show 15.2 billion options contracts cleared in 2025, up 24.4% from 2024. That growth expands the audience for tools serving self-directed traders, though it provides no evidence of demand for WheelMetrics itself. Rosebrock's advantage comes from a skill he has already commercialized once: translating technical systems into repeatable lessons. PyImageSearch taught developers how to work with computer vision. WheelMetrics asks retail traders to apply the same procedural mindset to position selection, risk and exits. The business depends on whether those traders will pay for fewer ideas, stronger filters and an instruction to stay in cash when the screen finds nothing. In a category built around action, Rosebrock is selling the discipline to do less.