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 your host, and head trader at option alpha.com, Kirk depluses.

Hey everyone, this Kirk here again from option alpha, working every single week to make this the most popular investing podcast offered online because it's based on one thing and one thing only and that's helping you guys make smarter trades.

So again, thank you so much for tuning in today. On today's show, we're going to be going through this back testing case study between trading monthly options versus bi-monthly options for the last 10 years.

And in particular, what we're going to be doing

is looking at two different back testing case studies,

one on the broad markets using IWM,

and one on a different EDF, which is an emerging market EFA.

And so the whole idea here is just to try to get another set of eyes on different types and

styles of trades that you can set up in your account

and talk through the different scenarios and the different outcomes of

trading monthly options so about 30 days out versus trading bi-monthly options, which is about 60 to 70 days out

and the differences between those.

As always, if you guys want to learn more about our backtestor, you can head on over to

Option Alpha.com.

Check out a demo. you can back test all these strategies and very

soon we're going to be releasing a new live update to the back tester where we fill

in a lot of the data that we've been missing over the last year and also have a live

version that will continuously update as the markets progress. So as we get into new weeks, we'll have data

refreshed on an ongoing basis. We're also going to be expanding the number of

strategies and the tickers and all the determining parameters that you want to enter. We're going to be expanding that with the new

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