scott tesler head of technology equity search as cfra search and he joins us now to discuss. scott, technologies off to a good start. can it keep it up? >> to some extent we think so, tyler. it's basically tied for first as the best performing s&p 500 sector at least through january up 4.2% and we think that really reflects a couple of realities. one is these stocks were not, let's say, loved post election. a lot of people were gravitating too sectors and names that people thought would benefit disproportionately as a result of the election of now president trump and a republican congress. but what we seen at least in 2017 thus far is people are realizing that there could be benefits as a result of the political changes as well as some other catalyst for the sector going forward. >> there are some negatives that you've given us for the tech sector and one is the strong dollar. >> yes. so when we think about the technology sector, we think about a group of large companies that has a very international focus and so if you think about for 2015, the sector generated a large percen