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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 you find weekly options contracts?” If you are interested in trading weekly contracts or if you have an interest in trading the nonstandard monthly contracts, then the easiest way to find these weekly contracts is most likely to go into your broker platform and just simply look at the date of the options expiration and what you're looking for is you’re looking for the expiration date to be not the third Friday in the month and that's a very simple way of saying basically, you’re looking for every expiration date that does not line up with a regular or traditional expiration dates for monthly contracts which is the third Friday in the month. For example, heading into December this year because we’re doing the podcast right now in December, the December contracts that would be the monthly contracts would expire on the 21st of December. That would be the third Friday in D