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BTIG Chief Equity and Derivative Strategist. I'm not going to bury the lead here Julian

Try not to do that on a daily basis, but I'm definitely not going to do it today

two rate cuts in 2019. What are you guys up to at BTIG?

Yeah, no, well look, first of all we're historians and the Fed cuts rates after hiking

cycles generally they start with cuts rates after hiking cycles.

Generally, they start within five to six months after the last hike.

And so, so the one time they didn't was 2007.

But it's more than that the Fed is very cognizant

of the message of the yield curve we're not believers in in in the yield

curve inversion we we strictly adhere to twos tens but the rest of the market does

look at it so the psychology of recession has started to form we saw that in the plunge and yields. But more importantly

the Fed wants inflation. The Fed is very focused on stoking the inflation.

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