At a time when investors are confronted with market volatility and a variety of challenges fueled by the uncertainty of inflation, unsettled geopolitical tensions, and economic pressures. Justin Klein and Steve Peasley, stand ready to take your finance and investment questions and share their unbiased answers. This is Invest Talk, independent thinking, shared success. Invest Talk is made possible by KPP Financial,

a registered investment advisor firm serving clients throughout the United States.

The clarity for your path forward starts now.

Here is KPP Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor, Justin Klein.

Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome back to Invest Talk.

This is our Monday, January 29th, 2024 edition of Invest Talk and it is Monday.

That means Luke is back with us.

Thanks for being here, Luke.

Thanks for having me, Justin.

And we are excited for this hour with you to help you become a better investor.

There's a lot to unpack in this wild and ever-changing investing environment.

And what happened last year is in the past.

It's not about the past. It's about investing through the

windshield, not the rearview mirror and that's what we were to help you do to assess

the landscape that's in front of you and make the best decisions with your money. Now to accomplish this we have a mix of educational

and actionable material to touch on today and of course most importantly your contributions in the form of questions and

comments always important part of the podcast and on this podcast we'll

be providing useful finance investment data along with our unbiased perspective developed over 20 plus years of investment experience.

Now we're going to talk about the market performance today as well as run down some show topics

but right after we answer our first caller question now.

Hi I love the show I'm calling today about CBOE global market if her symbol

CBOE we held it short term up nicely about 35% percent. I wonder if you think I should trim some or hold

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