fear, greed, FOMO, anxiety, panic, overconfidence, stubbornness, and impatience.

These are just a few of the frequent emotional and mental states that traders find themselves

in and while we cannot avoid these emotions and thought processes, we can learn to manage through them with emotional intelligence.

This week's podcast was curated to help you learn how to more effectively recognize and manage the dozens of emotional

and cognitive responses that you're going to come across in your trading career.

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.

Well, hey everyone, this is Kirkier 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 place smarter, more profitable trades. So thank you so much

for tuning in today on today show.

As we mentioned before, we're going to be talking about trading psychology

and more specifically emotional intelligence for options traders,

how to develop emotional intelligence as an options trader.

Because frankly, we've been through quite a lot in 2020.

I think 2020 really kind of knocked some people off their feet and taught people the importance of of week to week basis. And so my goal with this podcast is to help you by giving you a little bit of a

roadmap, some things that you can do, some steps you can take in order to improve the level of emotional

intelligence that you have, which I think will eventually trickle down into your performance as a trader and your ability to make more non-subjective decisions where you're not being thrown around by the waves of

your emotions and the market and things you hear in the news or the media or you read

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