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It’s October. Are investors spooked?

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published October 11, 2019

October tends to be a volatile month for markets.

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses the volatile market movements we have seen in recent sessions.

Are there signs of trouble ahead? Or is this just an example of the typical October nervousness?

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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