This will be my last year of working full time. I am retired military and currently work at a bay area refinery and I'm completely over the schedule. I have been trading options for two years and have been consistently profitable. I am working with a small six figure account with porfolio margin and have been bringing in between 10-15k a month selling SPX strangles. Every now and then I will sell strangles on high vol stocks but if I do anything besides SPX, I want it to be uncorrelated with the market like XOP or /ZB. I have been burned on earnings and dumb reports that come out over night or on weekends. SPX is easy. No earnings, no bullshit. Portolio margin was the key for me. It's like unlocking the golden chest after defeating the final boss and being granted infinite power ups. The amount of leverage is insane (and dangerous) but it really allowed me to compound my gains but also have the buying power to defend trades and turn losers into winners.