The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone, Kirk here again at Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, I want to try to help motivate you just a little bit to stick with it because I honestly think that most of you guys are about 5° off of your target. What do I mean by this? First, I’ll go back and say, “My mom had me read a long time ago, a book called “212.” It really was nothing more. It wasn’t a book. It was more of like quotes and phrases and people who are just on the brink of being successful and stories about that. But the premise of the book is that at 211°, water is scolding hot and boiling. But at 212°, literally 1° higher, it becomes steam. It starts to evaporate and become air. It’s that one extra degree where you don’t know how hot it needs to be until it finally starts clicking and converting and transitioning over to something completely different. I think that many people, especially people who try to follow options trading (whether it’s with us or other people) end up putting in so much effort upfront an