It's the last day of March. Opening days tomorrow. A little over a year ago, the VIX

index roared to a new all-time closing high up at 82.69 exceeding any closing level during 2008 and 2009.

And even though the S&P 500 experienced its fastest 30% drop in history at just 22 trading days.

It's good to note that the stock market has recovered from every previous bear market.

Today, I try out Joe Tigay, portfolio manager of Equity Armour Investments, and Cebo's Senior

Options Institute instructor, Kevin Davitt, to discuss the volatility market landscape, what the Vicks can tell us, how to protect your portfolio,

and we try to squeeze in as many as baseball puns as we can.

Let's take a listen. Joe, welcome on, first time caller. How are you? Thank you very much for having me.

It's very good to be here.

And basically my co-host at this point, Kevin Davitt.

How are you, man?

Good to see you.

Last time we talked was, think September 9th. I'm doing wonderful and it's great to be back. I look forward to it.

Great, great. Let's jump right into it. You know, it's, I know it's a tough act to summarize an entire year in a few short

sentences Kevin is it safe to say that global markets have regained their

footing from the past 12 months?

That is a tough act but I think it was Shakespeare and Hamlet where they point out

that brevity is a sol of wit so let's try to get witty.

The S&P 500, looking back, experienced a technical bear market between February 19th and March 23rd of last year.

Now as many people know it was the sharpest 30% decline in history and it was

followed by the fastest bull market in history so we had a

whiplash market. And it might sound fairly obvious to point out that markets to use your words have regained their footing when the S&P 500 is up 77% from the

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