Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of Schaefer's market mashup.

It is Tuesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day.

Please welcome Joe Hargett, Schaefer's new senior research analyst. You can formally found him on great stuff today.com.

I'm very excited for today because this is the least amount of guide I've ever put together.

But I think it's going to work because I feel like you can pretty much talk about everything.

So, Joe, it's great to have Yon, introduce yourself here for a little bit and then we'll get into it.

Hey, nice to be on, nice to be at Schaefer's or back at Schaefer's as I should say.

I actually got my career started in finance at Schaefer's

investment research really wonderful foundation for learning the market and

figuring out how to trade for everybody out there it launched launched me into, geez, when you start off with options, where else is there to go?

You kind of end up in there and I've been on Forbes investor place my latest

stint as you mentioned was at great stuff today dot com run through banyan hill

that was quite an experience. If you want to start off there, where would you like to start off?

Let me not talk all day long and let you jump in here a little.

Well, I'm damn. I usually love just sitting back and listening, but how about, you know, what I think is interesting is you have a lot of editorial background. When you're at Schaefer's you basically did what I did or you did you did what I do right now and you were involved in the digital content side. I know it was called editorial back then.

So walk me through how you've managed to thread the needle between writing and being a research analyst because, look, I'm a pretty damn good writer I couldn't trade

worth shit so the fact that you can balance both I think that's that there is some useful

information that a retail investor can

unpack out of that. Well interestingly enough I didn't go into financing

college I went into computer science and then they wanted me to do six years

of calculus. I did end up going to college for six years, but that was because I switched

majors because they wanted me to do four years of

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