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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, “Do stocks expire like options?” The simple answer to this is no. Stocks actually don’t expire. As long as the company stays solvent, stays viable, stays valuable to the public market, then its stock price does not expire. It can keep trading for decades and in some cases, hundreds of years. Right now, we’ve got a bunch of companies that have been trading for over 100 years, the likes of IBM, Console, etcetera. I think it’s going to be interesting to see moving forward which companies actually stick around for 200 years or so. I think there will be companies that stay around and stay viable for 200 years. That’d be really cool to see at some point, but I don’t think we have any of those companies that are still being traded today under the same or similar ticker symbols. But needless to say, the end result here is again, stock prices do not expire like option prices. They can