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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 talking about the options market size and its growth. Now, there's a lot of data that’s out there, but frankly, it's a little bit fragmented when it comes to the actual size of the option market and then actually the growth from year-to-year because you have all these different exchanges and clearinghouses, so it's a little bit fragmented. But I wanted to share some stats because I think generally, when you look at the CBOE which is one of the biggest exchanges and then also the OCC which is the options clearing corp. which does vastly all of the options clearing that's out there, you get a really good understanding of kind of where the market is and where it's headed. Now, the good news is I think that the options market is continuing to grow at a really, really good clip and for me, this is good because I always think about where do I want to invest my money, where do I want to invest my time