There are several variables that you should consider as risks but as an investor you are probably aware of them. With that said, trading is active investing rather than passive investing and because of that, you can easily make at most $750K in a year, I say $750K because with stocks, most market makers are putting in on average 10 million in stocks everyday for the stocks which they are market makers on. Trading Options, you can easily make $2 - $ Million per year, reason is because a lot of Market Makers use options to boost stock volume in the stocks which they market makers. Ride the wave and get paid!!