This podcast is produced by KPP Financial, Steve Peasley President,

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Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome to Invest Talk. This is our March 5th

2020 edition of Invest Talk and obviously the coronavirus threat is still out there and still in the minds of the market and traders and

We had a pretty volatile day just like we had a volatile day yesterday and And yes, yesterday was a volatile day.

It was a big volatility cuts both ways.

And all this means is that uncertainty is very high and likely to continue.

Now over the past month of so we've had a great deal of volatility and you're probably feeling that volatility within your

portfolio within your strategy and the big question is, is that strategy right for you in this market?

And long term, right?

Because guess what, while this is somewhat unusual in its consistent level of fluctuation, the current drop from the highs is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

And in reality, this is closer to a normal market than we've seen

in a decade plus, right, since the financial crisis, since Central Banks

have become such an important part of keeping liquidity loose and

keeping markets calm, right?

You haven't really seen this level of volatility, very rarely.

And the problem here is that the consistent lack of volatility for so long

makes bouts like this not only feel worse, but I think it also makes the structure of the market

more susceptible to large sell-offs as well, right?

Because there's a lot more complacency a lot more strategies designed for a low volatility environment.

So the big question is your strategy now built for a volatile market, an up and down market.

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