There's an old saying in investing that a rising tide lifts all boats.

And while that might be true, when the tide goes out, all the boats sink and fall just as fast as they rose together.

Still, you'll hear people pounding the drums in the name of classic diversification as the portfolio's

savior during these downturns. But our research suggests, however, that even a well-diversified portfolio

can still completely blow up just when you need it to protect you most.

You're listening to the Option Alpha Podcast.

From Option Alpha.com, where we show you how to make smarter trades.

Learn how the stock market really works and

generate consistent monthly income. Now your host and head trader at

option alpha.com Kirk Dupluses.

Hey everyone this is Kirkier again from Optionelva.com working every single week to make

this the most popular investing podcast offered online because it's based on one thing and

one thing only and that's helping you

consistently place smarter more profitable trades. So again, thanks so much for

tuning in today on today show number 181. We are going to be walking

through our correlation research for different

tickers, sectors, and industries, and why we think that our research continues to suggest

that classic diversification fails just when you need it most.

I think this will be a very insightful podcast for you.

Hopefully brings together a lot of what we have generally talked about over the last year or so with diversification and hedging strategies.

We've talked about this on the podcast with Richard Hudson at the end where we kind of did that overtime segment.

And we've hinted to a lot of this, but now I want to kind of really hinted to a lot of this but now I want to kind of really

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