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

To: Kirk © who wrote (13654)	4/12/2001 11:15:55 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

Kirk, the difference with your sports analogy is that when I complained about geode leaving out successes, it was because he was talking about why Bob should be taken off the air. If a coach was deciding whether a given player should be allowed to remain on the team, he would consider the big picture, both the pluses and minuses. He certainly wouldn't make the decision based on a single play, or even a single day. I do not claim that every post must mention all the pluses and minuses in order to be fair. But when there is a pattern of consistently leaving out facts favorable to Brinker in a high percentage of posts, the bias becomes clear, especially when one is making sweeping statements that he shouldn't even be on the radio. By contrast, let's consider your posts. While I have a beef with the way that you harp on Brinker's worst fund pick, and his worst stock pick, as if that were representative of the whole of his work, I do credit you with being far more even-handed than some. I noticed, for example, that you recently posted a comparison of Brinker's 1999, 2000, and YTD results with other newsletters and indexes that made his results excluding the QQQ trade look pretty decent. An objective presentation of unbiased numerical data on the whole portfolio is not something I ever expect to see from geode, with or without the QQQ trade included.