In this comeback episode, I'll catch you up on the biggest upgrades inside of Option Alpha,

the major shifts that are happening in today's Option Market, Hello Zero DTE,

and what you can expect from the podcast moving forward.

I truly consider this to be the reboot of the Option Alpha podcast.

So let's get started.

All right. What's up, everyone? This is Kirk here again at Option Alpha, and it is amazing to be back here on the podcast. We have not done a podcast in almost a year. And then even before

that last episode, it's been almost a year before that episode. So it's been about two years,

which is so sad to say that we haven't done a podcast. But I'm super excited to be back here in the

chair, doing the podcast recording here in the little office studio

that I've set up. And I just want to tell you guys, I appreciate you being here if you've

still been subscribed to the podcast for a long time. I know that I get a lot of emails asking

when's a podcast going to come back. When are we going to do it? Well, it's back. We're here.

We're back again. And we're going to keep going here this time with the podcast. I promise you,

I will not give up on this and you will not have a long hiatus from me. We're going to get back

into it. I've already recorded a bunch of episodes and interviews. So we've got a whole list of

ones that we can start releasing here in the future. You're going to love them. Some really great interviews, not only with industry veterans, but also with some traders from our own community, some of our top traders in Option Alpha last year. We're gracious enough to share their story and their journey and what they're doing with bots and automations. So we've got some of that coming up as well. You're going to love it. We've got a lot of stuff on deck. But even before I begin today's episode, please let me know. Shoot me an email Kirk at Option Alpha. If you have any ideas on topics or things you want to see in the podcast moving forward, as always, I will curate these as best I can based on the feedback from everyone who's listening right now. If you haven't already subscribed, make sure you subscribe so you get all the new updates for the podcast moving forward. All right. So let's get started here today. There's three things I want to kind of go over. Actually, four things. One thing really quick, then three major things that we want to go over. First thing I

want to go over is why the long hiatus, what happened? What did I do? Number two is what's going on in

the options market? So we're going to cover basically what has happened in the options market

broadly in the last two years or so. And then what is new at option alpha? So what do we have new at

option alpha? What are the big things that we've what do we have new at Option Alpha?

What are the big things that we've released that we've been working on? And then finally, what is planned for the podcast moving forward? So kind of the new twists and turns that I kind of see in the podcast moving forward. I hope either way you guys enjoy the fact that the podcast is back. I'm super excited about it. I got a smile on my face. I'm ready to go. So let's jump right into it.

So number one is what kind of happened?

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