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 host and head trader at

option alpha.com Kirk depluses.

Hey everyone this is Kirk here again from 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 for tuning in today again and I hope you guys really enjoyed the episode that we had

the other day with Sarah from she can trade.com I've got a lot of feedback from everybody it

seems like everyone enjoyed it it was a really popular download so we'll be doing a

lot more interviews with other traders coming up and again my goal with doing this is just

to get you guys a little bit of exposure to how other people trade and I think

again with our interview with Sarah and John Carter and some of the other people that

we've had on the and some of the other people that we've had on the show, some of the same

themes kind of prevail throughout.

And I think that's what's really cool about doing these interviews on my end is that even though

we might have differences on how we trade or the strategies, we have the same underlying

themes which I think make us successful in doing what we're doing.

So in that same vein, today I want to talk about kind of the shocking truth behind how you can become a more consistent and profitable trader.

And I say it's shocking truth because the reality is that in this industry and especially in the options trading world, we're not really

told what makes a successful trader. And what we are told really isn't true, right? We're told things like you need to have a lot of money and

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