let's get right to the floor show, we turn to morgan stanley senior vice president jim lacamp and trader scott bauer. jim, can you make sense of this the here? we have three down months in a row for the dow and the s&p, and you start to ask yourself with, okay, should i be betting the farm on stocks? should i be buying selectively, or should i be saving this dry powder for the moment? >> so, liz, look, seasonally this is all playing out true to form. historically, september and early part of october are very weak, and you throw in august if you want to as well. and hen you get to that 6-month time frame between november and april, that's historically do our time frame of year. but we've got issues, and we've got a a lot of lines in the sand that we need to overcome. first of all, the nasdaq and s&p both are sitting right at or below the 200-day moving average. the rally yesterday looked good, but there wasn't much volume. earnings beats are barely being rewarded, earnings misses are being massacred. we've got a new speaker of the house, is that going to be a budget battle in the fourth q