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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 answer the question – “What is a private investment?” A private investment is actually just the complete opposite of a public investment. As options traders and as stock investors, we generally trade in the public markets. This means that all the options and all the stock of all of these underlying companies and ETFs and indexes are publicly available. Anybody with a brokerage account can come into the public pool and make an investment or purchase stock, purchase options, sell stock short, sell option contracts in the public environment. When you switch over now to private investments, private investments are done on a one-by-one basis and this is many times where real estate transactions happen, this is where many business transactions happens on a person-to-person or business-to-business basis where people are dealing with each other individually. You can still make private investments. There’s