The economic data over the next several weeks are going to be difficult to interpret, and it'll be interesting to see how the market reacts,

It's always a bit difficult to read the economic data in the winter, just because activity is thinner, and the vagaries of weather are more pronounced. So it's not unusual to see, although this is an extraordinary amount of volatility.

They're not being trained to forecast. They're being trained to read the data and interpret it.

There's been this trend for several weeks of rallying in the morning and then fizzing out, and that's what we're seeing today, ... There's no clear direction sector-wise, it's really a stock-by-stock basis and stocks may have gotten a little ahead of themselves.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks

We just got whipped. These next couple of weeks, we have to find out who we are.