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So again, thanks so much for tuning in today.

On today's show, we're going to be talking about expiration week.

And we're actually releasing the show on Monday of expiration week.

So Thursday, Friday this week is expiration.

And so when expiration week usually comes around,

most people start to panic and

hopefully this podcast is gonna maybe hit you at the right time and help you decide on how to manage

some of the trades that you have during options expiration week and really it's ultimately

going to help you decide do I close my position or do I roll or adjust my position

moving forward and so what am I doing this show is kind of go through like a little mini checklist of things that I think you should consider in order because this is this is kind of the thought process that I have when I get into expiration week of how my mind works and how I go down my list of things to check

as we get into expiration week. And so before I even begin to get into this

checklist I think there's one thing that I have to say, and that is that you have to remember,

as we kind of outlined and show 18, I believe it was, kind of dealing with assignment and expiration,

you have to remember that most assignment during options expiration week

happens late in the week. So really most assignment in general happens the week of

expiration but then most of that inside of that week so like

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