things from popeye's to mcdonald's and starbucks, red robin, garden burger, cheesecake restaurants have been a real dud. three years and nothing to show for it in the middle, of course, here is the s what's starting to happen, though, there's a little bit of life in some of these laggards as we heard from dom mcdonald's is giving way a little bit i'm going to remove the s&p. let's go one more. and take a look and see what we've got. now, this is over the past year. this is important. what we're starting to see here is, again, that mcdonald's is starting to go down ever so slightly, while the restaurants are starting to hook up. i'm going to bit this is going to continue to happen. let's go to the day to day charts and try to figure it out. here's mcdonald's. here's the trend line you can draw and my guess is, is that we're just going to check back, check back, check back the trend if i'm long, i want to take profits. if i'm a short seller, you could get a nice 5 to 8% selling >> one of the reasons this company has been doing so well or had been so far this year was that management was doing some important things to try to improve their operating results. specifically, they were do