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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 some stock basics, in particular, the three different types of stock. Really, when you look at the broad universe of different types of stock offering, there’s only really three broad categories. They can get a little bit deeper in some cases, especially with preferred and grants and warrants and things like that, but we’ll just stick to kind of like the broad strokes here. The first is common stock. Common stock is what most people are usually accustomed to trading or investing in. This is just generally stock or equity in the underlying company or ETF that you’re trading. Things like Apple and Tesla and GE or J.P. Morgan, those all are generally common stock issuances that you can trade. The second type of stock is preferred. Preferred generally doesn’t trade as easily or as liquid as a common stock because you have to get into preferred offerings that have preferred rights and