Welcome back to Schaefer's market mashup. No frills today. Please welcome Kevin Lex Luthringhausen, the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Tradier, Inc.

How are you, Patrick? Thanks for having me. I'm doing great. Now I am ashamed to admit I did not

get your nickname until I actually said it out loud and I just sat there and was just like

duh.

Yeah so see it's right there on my trading jacket.

That's awesome.

Yeah so that was a you need to have three letter acronym in the in the trading days when there

actually was a trading floor right so I always went by Luther because my name Luther and Luther and Luther.

So obviously that didn't fit on a badge.

So I said, what about Lex for Lex Luther?

I'm like, hey, I kind of like that.

So lo and behold, it was available about a hundred years ago at the

C-belt and it's stuck to the point now where everyone just calls me Lex. So, simple.

Yeah, I like it a lot.

Well, Tradier has, you guys have your hands in so much.

I'll let you talk in detail about that later.

But I can tell you guys that I've tuned into your shows on Options Brew TV, top trading thoughts, they're awesome.

I mean, they're quick, but they're actionable.

They're not dry and listeners are about to find out why. But before all that, let's, you know,

you're a first-timer here on market mash-up, run me your background, what you do at Tradier, and yeah, spare no detail.

Sure, okay, good. Unfortunately for you and the audience, I'm old, so there's a long background, but I'm going to make it fast.

So I started out in the trading business right out of college, right?

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