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Hey everyone, Kirk here again and welcome back to the daily call. On today’s call, we are going to answer the question – “How can I tell if I’ll be assigned trading stock options?” I think this is a big fear for people especially when you get started in option selling which is mainly what we do where we sell straddles or iron butterflies or iron condors. People often fear being assigned stock. Now, first of all, it’s not as bad as it seems. Yes, it will happen. It’s going to happen at some point in the future if you do want to be in this business long term which I assume you do if you’re listening to this podcast and you just have to realize that it is going to happen. Now, we’ve got a lot of case studies on the website, we’ve got a lot of training on how you can manage it and some examples of positions where we’ve been assigned and we’ve managed it. It is not always bad. In fact, a lot of times, it ends up being really well being assigned the stock. If you can deal with it, it’s definitely something that wor