Fatt88888888 104938985 : Don’t recommend jumping into options without some guidance or at least paper trading/ experienced mentor. But if you’re keen to understand, start with youtube videos (an efficient way if you’re time starved) or read books (I recommend: The Complete Guide to Option Strategies: Michael Mullaney)
Selling puts: to own a stock at a discount/ earn a premium, essentially find a stock you don’t mind owning, determine an entry price (for example the stock is $100, you wouldn’t mind owning it at $80), sell a put with a strike at $80
But large-cap/ stable stocks usually have low volatility so their premiums are very bad. For example Google.
A good youtube starter video I recommend is: Options Trading Basics by Sky View Trading
Buying options is another matter - it decays daily so unless you’re doing it as a directional bet, ie. expecting a stock to plunge (put) or rose rapidly (call), it will cost you a lot, if IV is high

Fatt88888888 : Thank you for the insightful article. You must be very disciplined to take profits when you can and dip back in when you can! I am curious, do you ever get alarmed during a huge dip (a lot of fast growth stocks periodically see huge pullbacks). Also I think personally I (and many others) would ideally like to DCA, but that also depends on firepower, if you only have say 50k, 1/4 goes to 1 lot of Amazon, and you’re on other counters, you’d have not much spare cash left to DCA. Unless you’re specifically trading stocks that are trading within low double digits (also very impressed how low your costs are for so many stocks, in your other posts)!

Fatt88888888 : 1st half hour v volatile, usually 2hours in market more quiet unless sell pressure v high