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Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again at optionalpha.com and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we are going to be going through a little ultimate guide here to OTC stocks. As we’ve done just over the past week and I don’t know why I’m just dovetailing into these little areas, but it’s always stuff I want to talk about. I never thought that the weekly podcast, doing it as a longer form episode was really the right medium for this. But I get a lot of questions on futures and OTC stocks, etcetera, so I want to do a quick little podcast on what OTC stocks are, do I trade them, do I not, where can you find more about them and just kind of a little guide on that. OTC stands for over the counter stocks and basically, all you need to understand about this is that these are stocks that do trade on these dealer networks or dealer exchanges that are not traded on the regular exchanges, I would say or the bigger exchanges like the NASDAQ or the NYSE, etcetera and for whatever reason, these stock either are too low i