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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 how economic vertigo impacts options traders. What is economic vertigo? It’s just this idea that we get unbalanced or we get lopsided if we start going too deep down the rabbit hole of trying to understand the impact of every single economic or fundamental indicator out there. A lot of times, what you’ll see is somebody who wants to understand every little intricacy that’s going on and what they end up doing is they start feeding into this self-fulfilling cycle of trying to read the news and understand this indicator versus that report and this FED official said this and Trump tweeted this thing. And what they end up having is vertigo because they’re so unbalanced with so much information coming in and whirling around them that it knocks them off track and a little bit of the analysis paralysis can creep in. My thought process on this and the visual I use (maybe it helps out with