Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Schaefer's market mashup.

Your host here, Patrick Martin, pleased to bring on another very esteemed guest. Steve Sears, president in CEO of Options Solutions.com. Steve, thanks for coming on.

It's great to finally meet you and get this going.

Great to be with you.

Thanks for writing today.

If you're familiar at all with Options Trading in his history,

you know Steve is a legend in the

business so today we're going to talk about options solutions various strategies

dive into the psychology of investing I've heard Steve's got some stories he can regale me with and we're

going to try it to tie it all together with some current market events going on. But first, you know, for new guests, I like to open it up with some

background information, your career, your high points, or low points. You have a

bio that could go on for days. So I'll hand it off to you and just you know tell everybody you know how

you got to where you are now and the story along the way.

Oh, thanks again for having me. It's a real treat in honor because you know Bernie Schaake was one of the first people who really taught me about the business.

When I was a wee lad, I was a reporter, the Dow Jones Newswires in the Wall Street Journal, and I had this

deep fascination with what went on inside the stock market.

My goal when I first started was to understand what it meant when the newscaster said in the

evening that the stock market rose or fell by whatever points. The one day the old man

called me into the office and he says, Sears we know that you're interested in

what actually

happens to even the market.

We want you to cover options for us to start that beat.

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