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Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for February 17th. From time to time in these updates I would like to talk about our current positions as well as any future opportunities we see coming down the pike. Today will be one of those days. What’s so interesting right now is a bit of a Goldilocks environment that’s starting to take shape. The U.S. economy is starting to lift up. The stock market, of course, is causing and creating a lot of aphoria right now for the U.S. economy over 2017 and beyond. Of course, the stock market seems to make, once again, new highs practically every day with the idea of different types of stimulus; in other words, interest rates remaining low even though we’re looking at probably two rate hikes this year. The stock market, going up like it is, is leading a lot of investors and analysts to think that some of the Trump Administration ideas as far as lowering taxes and such is going to be good for the economy, and likely it will be. The