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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 I personally prefer candlestick charts over line charts. And again, this is a personal preference actually in that somebody asked me this in the community which is why I’m answering it here on the daily call podcast. But I generally prefer candlesticks because that's really how I learned. I originally learned a little bit about investing and trading prior to heading to New York and then when I was in New York, actually, most people when I was in New York and doing a rotation on a trading desk, used candlestick charting. And so, it was just commonplace to use that as kind of like the baseline fundamentals of how we would analyze and look at stocks and securities. That's really how I learned. And I actually prefer candlestick trading for a number of different reasons, but I think that visually, it's just a little bit more appealing. It tells a little bit more of a story once you