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Goldman Says We Could Be Entering "Third Wave" of Financial Crisis

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Mark Melin
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While market volatility has been the early watch word for 2016, a report from Goldman Sachs says don’t get excited, it’s all part of a trading range. The recent market rally? It is “about positioning rather than fundamentals,” the Portfolio Strategy Research piece stated, while noting the downside projection that the economy could be in the midst of a "third wave" correction.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.