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 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 smart trades.

So again, welcome to the show today.

Show number 141, we are going to be diving deep

into understanding how can tango and backwardation work

and how it might affect how options potentially are priced or

how you can actually trade options around these types of environments if you can gain

any edge from this or not or if it's just you know mostly a lot of hot air

stuff.

So I want to start with this conversation.

And again, all of this will be in the show notes

at optionoff.com slash show 141, just the number 141.

But I want to truly start with this conversation about three things and I guess the three things that really kind of lead into this discussion

I know this is going to be a little bit more of a high-level talk because many people when they start trading this is probably the least in their list of you know

required reading or required listening right and I get that but I want to cover these topics because they come up

often enough that I want to have a resource for you guys to understand

what's going on, what happens, it's not that complicated actually to understand.

And then how we might be able to use some of this, you know, this continuum

backwardation as we think about different markets

as maybe a trigger to say, you know, okay,

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