joining us to talk about the market today, though, barbara duran from bba capital partners and david ellison from hennessy funds and liz ann sonders. that was quite a close impressive rally with every group ending the day positive. it didn't look that way earlier in the session what is driving the strength here >> caller: well, i think this is the nature of the beast these days, and clearly a function of the mechanics of the markets or the rise of the machine. you have a unique day yesterday with the nasdaq having a 4 percentage point reversal from, you know, up 2%, more than 2% to close down, more than 1% you have to go back to march 2000 the last time it happened. we saw a reversal of that today. i think it's hard, especially for individual investors, to try make hay of this on a short term basis. i think the best strategy investors can have to the extent they can handle it for a turn over implication is not try to anticipate in a short term what the market will do but instead react. by react, i don't mean case the momentum in the direction it's going but try to stay in gear. maybe add whe

david: oracle? marc: oracle. starting in 1986, and in 1996, i walked into my boss' office, larry ellison.rybody knows who he is. he's been a tremendous mentor to me. and i said to him, i don't feel good. i am having trouble getting up in the morning. i am not enjoying my job. i don't really know what's going on. he goes, you know what you need to do? you need to take a sabbatical. so i did. i went to hawaii, and then i came back. he is like, you still don't seem exactly right. take another three months off. this was after 90 days. i said fine. i went to india. [laughter] i was touring india with a friend of mine who just quit working for george soros and was going to start his own venture capital company. soft partners. his name was arjun gupta. we are in the backwaters of the arabian sea, and all of a sudden we are invited into this ashram, which is like a synagogue. anyway. david: right, ok. [laughter] marc: just to help bring you along. david: i got it. marc: helping you come along with me. david: got it. marc: so we are in the ashram. in this part of india, all the gurus are women. th