For the past nine years we have been in the grips of a steady, if not rampant, Bull market in financial products. The financial disaster of 2008 seems long gone...and it is. For almost six years now, it has also been a story of almost unquenched, steady growth in financial assets and benign volatility. Making money on a consistent and steady basis is never so straightforward. So much so, we read article after article declaring “the new norm”. There is no such thing, and markets will always be at the vagaries of buyers and sellers. In short, they revert to type. The real world has returned...it is simply not that easy!