The Russell2000 and Copper

Now the market big cap indexes are weaker and hitting lows greater than the small cap indexes which makes no sense to me since the larger companies will be healthier and, as shown, haven't progressed at all since 2000 if one does a ratio to small cap stocks. Is this a discrepency that will end well? Or due to lack of liquidity, the larger indexes are selling off first with small caps lagging but eventually picking up steam?

And you have to be short industrial metals, in particular, copper if this is truly a sell off where a slow down in the global economy is possibly imminent and the dollar and yen raging. So this is one bag of tools one needs to look at to see what type of market we are having. Additionally, how can copper stay strong while the stocks of the miner's weak, unless we have two different investors: 1) the lightly-margined ones 2) the over-leveraged kind.

Lets see