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It feels like we're going back to January.

The Vix has a 10 handle, the S&P 500 is just points away from a record high.

To discuss joining us here in New York is David Kotock,

Cumberland Advisors Chief Investment Officer and co-founder. Good morning to

David. Good morning John. It's a pleasure to be here. Are we back at

January? Well it certainly looks like it, you just described it, but remember February, fellows, January,

and we'll see what this next two months is going to bring.

In January, February, we explored the concept with people like yourself as to whether we were going to go into a new

trading regime, a new market regime of higher volatility, lower returns.

Is that where we're at and if we are why are we going back to a

10 on the Vicks and a record hardly S&P 500? Well I remember that discussion here

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