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Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again at Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to answer the question, “How soon can you sell options before expiration?” I think this question that was submitted online is basically like a two-part question. One part is with regard to entry of options trading. The second part is probably with regard to exiting a position. I’ll take them both just in case the context might have been a little bit different. But in the case of option trades, how soon can you actually sell an option contract before expiration? You could sell them hundreds of days before the actual contract expires. You can start a position seemingly hundreds and hundreds of days out from expiration. Actually, right now, the furthest out contracts that I see for the SPY is 850 days out, so basically January of 2020. That’s how far out you can do it. You can sell the contract right now and you can wait 850 days until you reach expiration. I probably don’t suggest going out that far, but