The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again at Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to try to answer the question, “What is the real reason why someone would trade stocks and options?” And what I want to get to is I want to get to the real motivation, not just to become rich or not just to talk about financial terminology and numbers all day. People like numbers or you might like money and terminology, but it's not the real reason why people would want to trade stocks and options. Now, I think and I would assume that many people who are listening to this right now, you didn’t get here because you’re on some magical ride and you want to just find out what the option market is about or learn a little bit about it. No. There’s something that's driving you here. There were some catalyst or some trigger or some event that pushed you into the options market and specifically, maybe have pushed you to look online, on social media or on Google or wherever to learn about options trading or lear