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 your host, and head trader at option alpha.com, Kirk depluses.

Hey everyone, this is Kirk here again at option alpha.com, working every single week to make this the most popular

investing podcast offered in iTunes and online because it's based on one thing and one thing

only and that's helping you make smarter trades.

So thanks so much for tuning in today.

I've got a really cool episode.

Actually, I ended up deleting the episode that I was going to basically place in this

slot because I really didn't like it.

I recorded it twice and so I want to talk about

something that had kind of been on my list as a back burner item to review, but I've brought it up to the

front because I think it's really interesting and I've actually had recently people ask me about this so I thought

it was pretty timely but we're going to talk about peer-to-peer lending and how it is comparable

and to options trading.

And actually, I wanted to actually just give you guys

a little bit of insight into how I've been doing it

over the last two years over at Lending Club.

So I've actually opened up an account back in 2012, kind of the end of 2012,

start putting a little bit money in there, seeing how the whole thing works, right?

Like everything else that you should probably be doing with investing is you, you know, kind of try a little bit of money and then you can allocate more

money or less money whatever the case is but I've actually had some pretty good

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