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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 be talking about the death of retail investing. Now, we know that this has been coming and I’ve been saying this for many years now, but the death of retail investing is coming faster and faster and faster and what we know traditionally from history is that retail investing has had a couple of shifts in power. We’ve seen originally in the early 1900s up until kind of like the mid mid-1900s, most of the power was consolidated in the brokerages and the banks, so you couldn’t really do anything as a regular retail investor unless you had a broker or a bank or a relationship. You would call them, you would send in your orders and they would get executed in the market. And as we started to gradually make our way towards let’s call it the last 50 years of the 1900s, we started to see a shift in the way that people traded and invested. They started to not require necessarily a bank to do all their transa