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Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again from Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to answer the question, “How do I stop feeling impatient when trading options?” Now, look. I think this is a really important topic because a lot of traders feel like when they start trading options, they have this sense of anxiety that starts to swell up in their body where they get impatient waiting for trades to come around or for positions to come in after they’ve been waiting for weeks and weeks for something to happen and still nothing happens. But I think that we have to first understand two things first about impatience before we can move forward and start to conquer it in our trading. The first thing we have to understand is that impatience is not a lack of patience. It’s completely different. Impatience is basically a reaction to something happening and it gets triggered under very certain circumstances. It’s not that you are either patient or impatient. It’s that you can be patient, but yo