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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Math Junkie who wrote (12496)	2/28/2001 5:08:12 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

During that portion of 2000 when you were behind, did you change the focus of the advertising page for your newsletter from YTD results to results since 1/1/99 in order to portray your work in a more favorable light? Actually, customer feedback said I was giving too much info and that this was easier to see. I've since changed it again to make it even easier to see. I Still have all the data in my emails and in the newsletter and other advertisements. I beat the index funds by a large amount so there is nothing to hide or any attempt to hide it. One thing for sure is I have my advice in my returns and don't omit the risky ones. So, now you resort to Pete's strategy that when you don't like what I say that you then go after me? This has nothing to do with my comments that I find the show far less useful in his present format. Seems many agree. BTW, in my newsletter I go into great details about why stocks I goofed on failed and what I learned. I am given good compliments on this by subscribers. I see no reason to give it away for free on my site as my site isn't about my newsletter but discussing all investments and teaching people to think for themselves and not follow guru's. I just use my newsletter as a handy way to make a few extra bucks as many want to follow how I make good returns with individual stocks. It also makes for good, friendly back-n-forth with Rande who is against individual stocks for most.

To: Math Junkie who wrote (12496)	2/28/2001 5:21:10 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

BTW, I was posting on interenet discussion boards more than a decade before I was hired to write a stock picking newsletter. It was people like you that would get on my case years ago and say "well, I don't see YOU putting your opinions out in a newsletter where your performance can be measured." THAT was the old attack on me when I would say stuff about Bob (or others) that people like you didn't like. Then I got a few years of newsletter performance in under my belt that showed I could outperform in up and down markets and now we get Pete saying "I don't see Task writing about you" or "I don't see your newsletter in Forbes!" as if this now makes what I say wrong. I'm getting attacked today for saying I don't find the show as useful as in the past when he talked about the market... Man are some people sensitive.

To: Math Junkie who wrote (12496)	2/28/2001 5:21:38 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

What percentage of the time do you spend talking about your successes, and what percentage talking about your failures? Actually Richard, and I think you actually know this, Kirk has posted about situations where he has fallen down and where he has made mistakes. Playing down one's own faults and playing up the faults of others is a near-universal human failing. You are acting as if Brinker invented the practice. Well, here's a de-caf, skim milk latte for you. At least you've admitted that Brinker does that. Another interesting (and horrible) stat. What happened to the January CTR? We've apparently just gone through the 3rd worst month ever. I think the month following the original CTR was the worst one. I'm not 100% sure and I don't know where the 2nd worse one was but it sure feels that we've been through all of them. Thanks Bob.

To: Math Junkie who wrote (12496)	2/28/2001 5:23:54 PM
From: Chris J. Horne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

re: "Playing down one's own faults and playing up the faults of others is a near-universal human failing. You are acting as if Brinker invented the practice." Bob may not have invented the practice, but he has perfected it... Ignoring advice given in previous bulletins (buy immediately [at 83]) and "pretending" to issue the buy for the first time in the newsletter after subcribers' money has already been invested, screening out negative callers while letting positive ones through, cutting off the negative callers who sneak through, bragging and crowing about your good calls and ignoring the bad ones, cancelling subscriptions of newsletter subscribers who post online against you, censoring chat boards, closing chat boards to nonsubscribers who post negative comments, and finally shutting the boards down entirely when subscribers continue to speak negatively of your advice... I think Bob has this down pretty good!