MI007: New Investors SHOULD Use Options with Kirk Du Plessis (Investing Podcast)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.7 | On today's show, I sit down with Kirk Duplessis to talk about how and why new investors |
| 0:08.0 | should invest using options, how Warren Buffett, one of the best investors ever, uses options |
| 0:14.4 | in his portfolio, why options don't get much coverage in financial media, how to unconventionally but successfully grow a |
| 0:22.6 | business and much, much more. For those who don't know who Kirk is, he is a successful |
| 0:27.5 | options trader, real estate investor, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and head trader at |
| 0:33.3 | Optionalpha.com, which he has built to be a leading authority in options trading education and |
| 0:38.4 | research. I'm super excited to bring you this great conversation with Kirk Duplessis. |
| 0:44.4 | You're listening to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, where your host, |
| 0:49.9 | Robert Leonard, interview successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and investors to help educate and |
| 0:55.8 | inspire the millennial generation. |
| 1:06.8 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:07.9 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm your host, Robert Leonard. |
| 1:10.4 | And with me, I have Kirk Dupluses from Option Alpha. Welcome to the show, Kirk. |
| 1:14.5 | Thanks for having me on, man. I appreciate it. In today's interview, we'll get into talking about a bunch of different things. We'll talk about trading options, entrepreneurship, how you built your business. But first, I want to talk about your background. What led you to options trading and ultimately |
| 1:28.1 | starting Option Alpha? My journey to Option Alpha was not as clear as maybe it is now today. |
| 1:35.9 | Like even just in the last six months, I think I've had a lot of clarity and kind of understanding |
| 1:39.6 | like how I got here. Because a lot of people have asked me, like, how did you get the trading? |
| 1:42.7 | The typical answer, which is, well, I went to school and I went to University of Virginia and graduated from there |
| 1:49.2 | with a finance degree. Everybody and my friends were going to Wall Street. So naturally went to Wall |
| 1:54.3 | Street and worked for Deutsche Bank in the M&A department, had a rotation on a trading desk, and left there, |
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