This was my second week of day trading. I've had good luck with stocks and decided to try my hand at options. I dropped a short condor on SPX last week and grabbed a $15K profit; was a bit nervous with the 2% dip in the S&P which thankfully didn't happen on the 8th, and my low wing didn't close ITM on exp. With NDX, I managed to snipe $5K by doing a simple ATM short put right before it closed on the 7th. Some less impressive trades included $1,200 profit from AAPL during what I call the morning hump, which starts at open and fizzles out around 10-1030am. SPY seems to have a morning hump thing most days and I was able to get $900 profit from one of those. No major losses yet and I currently have a few open long condor spreads on AAPL and SPY. Upon review I think I'm going to apply a simple principle - the market only crashes down - and bias my spreads to have more cushioning on the downside. I also feel like most pure option strategies are gambler oriented. The benefit of trading stocks is that as long as you stick with well-established companies you can never really "lose everything". With options, you're playing with fire while wearing gasoline-soaked underwear...so in the interest of not posting $20K per week losses I may simply limit my options trading to covered calls on stock I want to sell and short puts on stocks I want to buy.