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Strategies & Market Trends : Stock and Bond Market-Timing: Can it be Done?
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To: ETF1 who wrote (2788)8/14/2014 10:51:30 AM
From: Kirk ©   of 3605
 
Well said.
Does anybody pony up $185 for an annual subscription to Marketimer because they want to learn about GDP, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, price to earnings ratios, and the difference between operating earnings and as reported earnings?

I've had several friends who subscribed to Marketimer and told me they didn't understand all these things and weren't even interested in all these things.
If I want to buy a house, I want to know it is in a good neighborhood with good schools, safe from crime, etc. There is more to it than just buying a nice structure on a certain sized lot.

Likewise, if you are trying to tell a novice investor to invest in the stock market who might only hold CDs, then you need to convince them WHY.
Marketimer subscribers just want to know how to invest their money. That's it. They don't know that much about investing and are willing to pay $185/year for professional advice from Bob Brinker, so they can invest wisely and do well.
True. Brinker should CLEARLY state that the returns he advertises, especially for his "balanced portfolio" going forward assume you lump sum to the total dollar levels shown, not the percentages that are at this time purely fiction. All the arm waving about economics and the "individual issues" are something that don't affect his advertised returns and are there more for advertising than to help you invest.
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