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I am looking to benefit from time decay while insulating my account from market volatility... so I am 99% of the time looking to hold until expiration. Yes... it can be difficult to find non-correlated species but it is possible to create a relatively market neutral portfolio that will...

How does everyone else handle this?? I use diversification to help manage risk. e.g. If I have a mix of bullish and bearish trades (e.g. bull call spreads + bear put spreads etc) Plus I diversify by sector: utilities, retail, metals, financial etc. plus add in positions on inverse...

What's the solution? Well this is not necessarily 'the solution' but I have extracted a small part of my options portfolio: SYMB......Option..........Company...................................Contracts.........Paid..............P/L BAC...Jan13 7.5 Call Bank of America...

http://www.thestreet.com/story/799733/1/naked-puts-are-a-dangerous-game.html "Selling naked puts is one of the most risky strategies around," Fontanills says. "By offsetting that bet and buying another put, Fred, you should reduce the cost of capital and leverage with a bull put spread."

It would seem from what I read that everyone who is doing what you want to do with options (scalp indexes intra-day) does it with futures instead. There's probably a reason for that. I do it with futures. I would never think of doing it with options.

"...don't know what you are talking about..." +1

Augen seems to change his opinion of what works and what doesn't faster then you can keep up with. Makes me suspect that he's telling tales to sell books and probably is eating dinner with this guy: Wouldn't be the first time.