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Good afternoon, this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for January 15, 2016. Michael Gross and I have written a few books, actually three different editions of the same book, The Complete Guide to Option Selling. On the very front of the book it talks about possible stellar returns in both Bull and Bear Markets. Well, we’ve done, in my opinion, quite well over the last several years where the stock market has been trading higher. I believe we were up six or seven years in a row, with the exception of 2015, where I think, the stock market was basically flat, possibly down 1%. Going into 2016, we’re getting continuous calls from some of the largest investment banks in the world, saying that 2016 could be quite different from the previous several years. RBS, this past week, talked about a cataclysmic year in 2016, to actually say, “Get out of everything.” Have you ever noticed when investment banks and large stock brokerages are very slow to talk about the market possibly going into a