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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker, Moneytalk and Marketimer

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To: Math Junkie who wrote (1766)	11/1/2007 8:15:27 AM
From: InvesTing	Read Replies (1) of 2121

Math, when asked if he thought Brinker was dishonest in his handling and his accounting for the QQQ debacle in which Brinker urged subscribers with a unique ACT IMMEDIATELY bulletin to put up to 1/2 of their "cash reserves" into QQQs and urged them month after month to hold the position, never closing it out and now pretending he did not make the call said: "I'm saying he could do better." So you think this was not dishonest but rather imcompetence? On most occasions I believe the axiom --"Don't ascribe malice to what is easily explained by incompetence" ... but you believe Brinker's hiding of this very material call is simply incompetence rather than malice (dishonesty). That's a strange take. Math, What if Brinker would advertise his results something like the following to snare new subscribers? " Some advisors bailed out of the big bull market of the 1990s well before its peak, but not Bob. From January 1991 until January 20-00,-asthe-stOck market pressed higher, Bob urged readers to-stay100% in equities. Then Bob issued his first bearish signal in nearly a decade, advising subscribers to move 60% of their portfolio into cash. This alert came just two months before the start of a major bear market and gave investors time to make decisions that could preserve their capital. Bob made his third major call on March 11, 2003 -this time through his special alert service for notifying Marketime~ subscribers in between monthly issues of the newsletter. He urged moving 100% of stock market cash reserves back into stocks the very day the Standard and Poor's 500 Index bottomed at 800.73. As a result, his subscribers were suitably positioned to profit from the rally that boosted the index by over 80% through mid-2007. " Would you say if one were to send advertising like this where we know full well that the October 2000 call was for some following his advice the exact same % of a portfolio this ad claims were used in the "third major call". If such an ad were sent would you call this dishonest and misleading or would you call it an oversight? incompetence? If he would have remembered the QQQs it "would have been better?" :)

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