Me too. I can't think of a safer options strategy than the wheel. I've been successfully selling CSP and CC on SPY and QQQ for over a decade. I fooled around with spreads, condors, butterflies, strangles, straddles etc. for a while but I always come back to the wheel. More on reddit.com

I’ve been trading options for a few years now and just discovered this subreddit. You mean well, but trading for years doesnt actually mean anything. Simple two part question, are you consistently profitable and are you beating just buying and holding the S&P 500 if you are profitable? Lots of blind leading the blind on this subreddit who came in to it during the latest bull run. More on reddit.com

"Portfolio doubles every 2 years" Dude, you only have 3 years of data. More on reddit.com

props to you for seeking information, stay curious. you will crush it. most people start by buying calls and puts and get frustrate their win rate isn’t there. Ive been there. the odds are just stacked against you when you’re long delta… you’re fighting time decay and implied volatility, so even when you’re “right,” the option doesn’t always pay. you can definitely make money buying, but when you’re selling, IV and theta start working for you instead of against you. so I found the best strategies for myself and my career through almost always collecting credit what worked best for me when I started moving toward full time was switching to structured strategies like credit spreads, short puts, and iron condors. they let you trade with a built in edge. instead of needing the stock to move big, you profit from it staying inside a range or even doing nothing. I’m sure you’ve had a call lose money even though the stoc went up… the person who sold that option was “wrong” on direction and still got paid what works best for me now?: – iron condors and short strangles when IV was high and I wanted to stay neutral – high probability short puts on stocks I wouldn’t mind owning – ratio spreads for setups with a directional lean but extra room to be wrong – credit spreads for directional trades with defined risk but I also definitely sprinkle in some butterflies and calendars and fly’s, etc and all of these are found and executed through metrics and stats like sigma, IVR, delta, expected move, etc. learning to trade without charts changed a lot for me, that’s just me personally I have nothing against TA at all. but yeah, I eventually found my groove through that. im nothing special, you can absolutely do it! More on reddit.com