and life there are three things that are certain, death, taxes, and bear markets.

For many new options traders, this current bear market we found ourselves in

might just be your first. An inconvenient reminder that risk is present when investing,

particularly when trading options. But alas, as the old saying goes, it's just part of the game.

And my goal today is to make sure that this bear market isn't your last.

That's right, I want to help you survive this bear market, maybe even thrive in this volatility,

and ensure that you live to trade every bear market that comes in the future.

Hey everyone, this is Kirk here again from optionoffa.com 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 consistently place smarter trades.

So again, thank you so much for tuning in today and welcome back to today's show number 218

where we're going to be talking about how to survive bear markets trading options.

This show Genesis really came from a number of emails and comments that we've seen from new traders

trying to figure out and trying to help get some guidance on navigating their first bear market

that we've seen in quite some time. Now, if you haven't been new to options trading,

then bear markets is probably nothing new to you. You might have traded through 2008, 2009,

you might have traded through some of the little crashes and mini crashes or corrections that we've

had 2015, etc. Maybe even traded through 2021 we had the kind of COVID crash and very quick

reactions the market back up. But this feels a little bit different for most traders. It feels

different because we consistently seem to be pushing the lower boundaries of this market, grinding

lower in many cases. And so for a lot of traders that are used to trading upward to the right

charts that are in bull markets where it's really easy to make money, this seems like a little bit

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