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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Invest Talk it is Tuesday January 7th

2020 well in the first full week of trading that will be this week is the first one with all the days in it and of

course we've seen some volatility I think you might might get used to some

volatility with what's going on in Iraq I think it's going to produce volatility.

I think that the year, not just Iraq and whatever that is happening, you know.

I think the year we're going to see more volatility. I just think it, because we didn't see much volatility last year.

Suppo was mostly a market, a market was moving up.

But just expected, I think it should expect it this year.

Okay, so if you're a serious investor, of course, you know, do you want to you want to balance your portfolio with, you know,

optimism and not necessarily pessimism, but caution.

And therefore you need to understand the risks that you're taking in your market and

your portfolio.

What risks are you willing to take and you're comfortable with?

And it's hard to know.

It's just very difficult.

So, you know, you've got to come up with just a good investing strategy based on what you see in the economy and the market

We know that the market is kind of overpriced not tremendously overpriced but over price we know that the economy is going strong and it probably will do

pretty good this year. So what's your strategy in that kind of environment? So what do you

want to do? And you you know can you understand that the investments that you buy work in different types of economic environments?

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