You're listening to the Option Alpha Podcast from Option Alpha.com where we show you how to make

smarter trades learn how the stock market really works and generate consistent monthly

income. Now your host and head trader at

option alpha.com Kirk depluses.

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

this the most popular investing podcast offered online and in iTunes because it's based on one thing

and one thing only and that's helping you guys make smarter trades.

So again thanks for tuning in today on today's show we are going to be talking

in depth about implied volatility and why you don't need a degree in financial engineering to of I think once you peel back some of the layers it's actually very easy to understand and we're going to try to make it

hopefully really really easy for you to understand because it is really the hallmark or the

core of what we do as options traders is using implied volatility to our advantage, selling rich implied

volatility compared to historical standards, and trying to profit from this mispricing that

happens throughout the expiration month.

So we're going to be talking about this all through the podcast here today.

Again, you can get more resources and links to different sections on volatility and

courses that we have on volatility by heading over to

option alpha.com slash show 135 again that's just the number 135 option alpha.com

slash show 135 now in today's show what I want to try to do is I want to try

to hit on a bunch of different topics and I've kind of penciled things down

because my mind was going all over the places I was thinking through how I

wanted to describe implied through how I wanted to describe implied volatility, how I wanted to

present implied volatility to you guys so that you can understand how it works and then how it

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