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Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again from Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to rhetorically ask the question, “What if 18 seconds was worth $245,356?” Now, I say rhetorically ask this question because the answer to the question is if it was worth that much money, if just 18 seconds of your time was worth a little over $245,000, you would basically rhetorically ask the question, “Well, what do I have to do in order for that amount of time to be worth so much money in the future?” And the answer is you have to run a back test. I am shamelessly plugging our back testing software or frankly, anybody’s back testing software, this idea that you can basically look at tons and tons of research that’s already been done and is published out there by numerous different places, not only just the research we do here at Option Alpha, but CBOE and AQR and all these other places. They publish so much research on back testing strategies and portfolios and models you can use to improve the pe