My "investment strategy" is to have five years of monies in liquid accounts, laddered CDs, a short term money market account SWVXX that pays a decent rate (5.16% at the moment), then have about five more years in pretty stable stocks and ETFs, I have had good success with SCHD, the Schwab dividend fund. I don't seek high dividends, but I like companies with a good record of incresing their dividend. The next five years is more risky stuff, but still not crazy. And then I get a bit crazy. The crazy part has of course had the best returns of late, so I think about rebalancing when it gets over board.
I wrote some covered calls in Apple and Costco a bit back, the Costco actually jumped and I thought I'd lose the stock and then it dropped back, and now it's back up but the calls expired. This is a decent way of getting some extra return if you don't mind losing a stock potentially or have too much of it.