Tell me how he came up with the idea, if you're willing.

Sure, of course.

Well, I mean, as you, as you alluded to, you know, nature has cycles to it.

There's lots of other cycle work out there.

You know, we just lost Peter Eliades, who's, uh, one of the, the main cycle guys out there.

And my mentor, one of my other mentors, Larry Williams, you know, uh, a big cycle guy.

But the, the seasonal cycles, um, exist.

Um, how do you determine whether a pattern is meaningful rather than just a statistical coincidence, and have you yourself, since just even in the s- small amount of time your dad's been gone, uh, begun to track for new ones?

Okay.

Uh, in the last 19 cycles, it's like 11 of the last 16 bear markets bottomed in the midterm year.

Um, this is a time when, you know, incumbent presidents generally lose House seats.

Their party generally loses seats.

It's very historically, um, you know, uh, uh, common.

Uh, we see the most, um, the weakest period, what we call the weak spot of the four-year cycle is Q2, Q3 of the midterm year.

This is where the campaigning heats up, um, and, you know, starts to take attention away from the market and the economy.

So you had two out of three