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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 be answering the question that has to do with short selling basics and how you can sell stock that you don't even own. When people start trading options and start trading stocks, they undoubtedly run across the concept of going short or short selling. And so, it’s really confusing at first because the idea is, “Well, how do I sell something that I don't even own?” And that’d be like selling a car without even having a car. How do you do this? Well, the concept is actually really easy and I'll try to explain it very simply for you guys here today on the show because I want you to understand just the basics of it. We’re not going to get into the nitty-gritty and the actual behind the scenes of who's doing what, but just the basic concept of how short selling works is actually really easy. If you think about option buying or stock buying just to use the other side of it here real quickly, you would b