Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

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Thanks for tuning in to the Money Tree Investing Podcast, your source for investing and money matters.

I'm your host, Andrew Saither, from eInvestingfor Beginners.com.

Today's guest is Eric Kabiashi Solomon, and what he does is he runs option and investment

boot camps and consults on risk control, option strategies, and stock valuations for both

individual and institutional investors.

Eric's also the founder of I-O-I-L-C, which is a financial consultancy for individual and

institutional investors and the author of The Intelligent Option Investor.

So with that introduction, I want to thank you, Eric, for your time and thanks for joining us

today.

Oh, thanks for having me, Andrew. I'm really excited about speaking with you today.

Yeah, so kind of right before we get into the nitty-gritty of everything, I didn't know this with your background.

You have some experience with both the buy and sell side of financial services,

and you even have experience with two hedge funds and also working with Morningstar for

investing newsletter. So how has that experience influenced the expertise that you share with

your clients today?

You know, in fact, in the financial world, things are basically split up into three parts. You've got the buy side, which is people like hedge funds or mutual funds, the sell side, which are people like brokers, Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs.

And then you've got third-party

research like Morningstar. And so because I've worked for all of these kind of firms, I've been able to see

the kind of structural constraints. And what I mean by structural constraints is, you know, how people

think because of how they're paid. And this actually has really

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