WRITING TRADED OPTIONS for income

Thanks profitaker and to Roger.
I've heard all this about years ending in 5, problem with back-testing trading systems and the like is that on the laws of probability something is gonna look fool-proof if you look at enough different systems. Sods law can sometimes say that once a system is discovered to have worked it stops working.
On the other hand there is possably a tendancy for these proffacies to be self fulfilling.

The 5 ending theory for next year does contradict the US electoral cycle pattern which seems to show that stocks do best in the last two years of a presidents term (the policy of all presidents is to get re-elected -feel good factor etc)

All that said 'mechanical' systems do fascinate me. Hope I make sense to all the clever people on this thread.