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Hey everyone, Kirk here at Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we are going to answer a question from one of our members which is basically, “How do corporate earnings and dividends impact our options trading decisions?” The real question here was that somebody sent in… Again, thanks for submitting questions because it helps out on this podcast in topics and things that we cover. But the question that was submitted was, “Can you talk more about how these corporate actions like corporate earnings and dividends affect trading decisions? For instance, if you’re trading in a security that has a dividend being announced before a contract expiration or is going through an earnings event, do you wait until after that announcement or that dividend to pull the trigger?” I think this is a really good topic. It’s one that we've covered before, but it's worth covering again. When we start looking at trades, we do look into the future for any trades that we’re doing in individual stocks and we want to