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Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again and welcome back to the daily call. On today's call, we are going to be talking about the differences between systematic versus unsystematic risk in the market. I think this is an interesting discussion and it gets me back to my roots, I guess of old finance class in college. But it's a concept that I think all investors have to understand. It’s a very easy concept that can be a little bit overwhelming just by the terms and the names, but it's actually very, very simple to understand if you take just two minutes here today in our call and podcast to understand the differences between them. There's two types of risk broadly speaking in the market. The first type of risk is risk that is specific to whatever underlying security or industry you are investing in. To use the furthest end of the extreme spectrum, let's say that you're going to invest in Apple computers and Apple technology. Well, you have risk in just at investing in Apple. Apple has its own risk profile, basica