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Hey everyone, this Kirk here again from option alpha.com working every single week to make

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We're going to be talking about these long straddle earnings

option strategies that we started back testing.

In fact, we've actually done a lot of back testing, a significant amount of back testing in the earnings trading space, and we'll be publishing a report on that here in the next couple months.

Those of you who are lifetime members obviously will get that everyone else obviously

we'll have to just purchase access to the report. It won't be that much, maybe a couple hundred bucks or so.

But what we've been doing is a lot of testing around earning strategies. So going back in time, about 10 years or so, longer if we can get the data,

and trying to test these hypotheses around earnings trades, what works, what doesn't, what

are the strategies that ultimately can help us

optimize what we're doing and the whole idea behind doing this

is basically taking what we've already done for

regular option strategies I guess are like core option strategies in what we did

with the trade optimizer and the profit matrix report where we test a lot of

variations to see if there's a tweaks that we can make. What we're trying to do

here is test some variations to see what

tweaks we need to make, if any, around how we trade earnings. And so as I start digging

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