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 always based on one thing and one thing only and that's

helping you make smarter more profitable

trade. So again thanks for tuning in today. We've got the first part of a

three-part series that we're going to be doing on options trading taxes.

U, right?

Everyone always thinks when you start talking about taxes, you're like,

I know that's how I think too, you know, taxes come around and it's that time of year

where we have to pay the government and you know do all

this filing and reporting but it's so critical that we take the time now to

understand exactly how trading taxes and how taxes in general affect the positions that we have and if there

are things that we can do or structures that we can put ourselves into legal entities

like an LLC or an S Corp if those are the types of things that can save us

some money.

And in today's show, we're bringing on a very special guest, Brandon Hall, who's a CPA, and

specializes in security taxation, to help kick-start us on this journey.

Now, you know, over the past however many years we've been doing this now, almost eight years

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