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Right now let's bring in Robertson, she's with Amherst, Pierpont, Bob we've been talking through the morning

about where we are. Is it a good time to take advantage of the volatility that's coming, is that a risky business? Pro's love movement in the

market, that's where you make money, things have been quiet supposedly, is it going to be more volatile into the end of the year.

I think we are going to see significant increases in volatility as we go forward.

I think a couple of things are driving it.

One is obviously the potential that the Fed will finally

hike rates and that always tends to create some volatility. Second is we have

not only the election here, we have discussions about Greek fiscal policy coming up later this year with the

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