I guess sometimes the best way to understand the psychology of how our minds work is to just do a little trial and error experiment. In my earlier post (see below), I was going through my mind of formulating a strategy of selling options as an income strategy. Thoughts on the income strategy (Selling Options) (read here) The Starting Point I think if you go through it, I think the key point I was trying to bring across (to myself) is as mentioned at the bottom of the post (to quote): “However, the main difficulty probably lies in finding that proverbial psychological sweet spot whereby it becomes passive enough, and the income stream more or less stabilised so that we can spend less time monitoring the stock market (and not be overly fearful of any volatility or being too greedy).” Actually with most investments, be it stocks, investment properties, crypto, etc…....