All right, so the podcast is finally back on track and this week we kick it off by bringing in a special guest interview with Adam Cohen who is the vice president and head of trading operations at Trade Station and more interestingly than what he does at Trade Station,

which he does a lot at Trade Station, we'll get into it in the interview, is that he has a very deep

background and not only trading in the pits in Chicago but also as a market maker and so we get into so much in this podcast interview.

It is a can't miss episode. this is Kirk here again from Option Alpha,

and thank you so much for tuning back in,

and welcome back.

We got the podcast back on track.

It's been quite a long time,

but I'm very excited to get the podcast.

Back again rolling, so we've got a lot of episodes

kind of queued up for you guys here and I wanted to kick off the release of the

podcast again with a great interview that I just recorded with Adam Cohen. Now the background here a little bit is that Adam and I

actually met at a Trade Station event in New York and Trade Station was

gracious enough to invite me to speak at an event that they were having for their clients in New York.

It was a really fun event. Great speakers, great topics.

And I was just chatting with Adam on the side kind of before the actual event kicked off and we were talking about

markets and dynamics and there was actually some crazy stuff that happened that particular day with some exchanges

kind of having some issues and blips and I thought to myself you know

Adam and I asked him directly I said Adam I would love to have you on the podcast like we got to have

these conversations where other people can hear them where traders in the community can hear them and he was very

gracious enough with his time and Trade Station was kind enough that they gave him approval to talk about all this stuff

and so there's kind of a little bit of back and forth

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