Well as summer vacations are in full swing here and as everyone rushes to their favorite social

distancing hotspot, traders are often left wondering what to do with their positions and trades

while they're away. And since we cannot build automated and trigger-based strategies yet,

though it is coming from Option Alpha, we wanted to help you with a simple but effective checklist you can use

to square up your account before going off the grid. But make no mistake, this checklist isn't just

for when you go on vacation. It's also a great workflow to help you before a long business trip

or a busy week at home when you have limited time to manage your account.

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Hey everyone, this is Kirk here again from option alpha

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trades. So again, thank you so much for tuning in today on today show number 186. We're going to be going through the

vacation checklist for options traders and like we said in the intro this is not just

for when you're on vacation this is also a really good checklist to kind of double check and

work through your positions if you go on a long business trip or if you're at a conference whenever the world opens back up and those start to become a thing again and or if you have just a really busy week at home with the kids and school and soccer whatever the case is you just don't have enough time to manage your account.

There's a great little workflow to make sure that you're doing all the things you don't get any

surprises when you actually turn your computer back on or

when you actually check your brokerage account and you've seen a couple of days of

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