Let's say, I have around $500k invested in various stocks like Apple, Google, Microsoft, S&P 500 and others. Now I have $100k cash in my trading account and my goal is to generate 2% returns every month ($2k) on this $100k.

    The way I do that is currently is to sell put options for a total of 100k on stocks that yield good premiums like Broadcom or Tesla at 0.15 delta. But sometimes, because of the high volatility, they get assigned and I want to avoid assignment as much as possible.

    Now I heard about margin trading which I have not used before. My understanding is, with margin, I can have more buying power for the 100k and sell more options. So here is what I am thinking: instead of selling cash secured puts for 100k on 2 different stocks, sell puts with margin for a higher total value like 200k and sell the options conservatively at 0.07 delta (compared to 0.15 delta before) on 4 different stocks with the goal of generating 2% monthly ($2k) on the 100k of my money. This takes advantage of the margin and also reduces risk by going for lower delta, lower premium and diversifying the investment. Any obvious flaws with this strategy? Where can I learn more about this?

    Also, I believe I can have even the 100k invested in let's say SPY and let it grow and in the worst case when my sell put gets assigned, I will have to sell the SPY to fund the put call assignment. Does this sound right?

    Selling less puts with cash Vs more puts on margin
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    1. Im doing this strategy for 5 years now.
      Its work very good on bull markets but on corrections you might blow up your account if you not carful enough, because your margin coming from your actual money in stocks and those stocks will get hit as well in a correction. So you lose money on your stocks and getting less and less margin from your broker while in the same time your puts increase in value and required more and more margin to maintain the position. This is the main risk and if not managed correctly you will get margin call and blow up your account.

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