brian jacobsen, portfolio strategist. ou advising your clients today, brian. >> hi, good time to talk about this considering we had a major move in the markets. similar to what the russell 2000 has been experiencing all year. if you look how some specific sectors within that index, that small cap index that performed, it has not been a pleasant ride. i do think that some economic data that we're going to be seeing and earnings numbers which are most important will probably propel the russell 2000 up from these levels. so i actually think we're going through a bottoming process with small cap stocks here. david: on the other hand, you know the expression, catch a falling knife. nobody wants to do that. and there are signs that it could continue to fall further. from a technical standpoint, maybe j.c. paretz but i've got eninto this technical stuff. it is looking bad for the russell 2000. small caps are deeply in trouble. they're firmly below their 200 day moving average. doesn't look to be getting better from that standpoin