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 I just want to jump in here real quick before we get to the live

interview with Brian and highlight a couple things that we're going to be

talking about so I think this interview is really great for a couple of reasons one we

not only talked about what Brian does as far as his overall strategy, but we also

got into things like risk reward and specific trade adjustments that he might make to some

credit spreads.

Plus, I also got into a lot of questions that were detailed with regard to accounts.

So things like what is a margin account versus a cash account, different trading levels, how

much cash you need and reserve, what happens when options get assigned, how

do brokers deal with that, and then more specifically Brian offered a really great piece of

advice and tip for those of you who are trying to open up new accounts and

get higher trading level approval. So please be on the lookout for that

towards the midway point in the episode and right before we get into it I

just want to let you know again this was done live at the FinCon

conference down in Charlotte, which was amazing, but that also means there's going to be a little bit

of background noise because a bunch of people are walking around and kind of standing around us

as we are doing it.

So please bear with us on a little bit of the audio. It's still really good. We cleaned up most of the kind of the background and big noise. But as always, I hope you guys enjoy this episode and we'll get right into it here with Brian.

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