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#610 - If You're In College, You Should Already Be Trading

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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 why if you’re in college, you should already be trading. One of the passions that I have that I will probably explore at some point later in my life is a passion to actually teach very young kids, high school, college-age kids about finance and personal finance, investing, trading. I don’t feel like it’s something really being taught in the universities. Now, I went to a university and got a degree in finance and I learned about options pricing. I manually calculated options pricing, but we really didn’t do any serious trading. We really didn’t do any portfolio modeling or back-testing in that program and that’s really sad that actually, I went through that entire program and we really didn’t learn that much about actual active trading. Now, if you’re in college right now or if you have a kid in college, my general opinion is you should be trading or teaching those children how to