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

To: davidk555 who wrote (21872)	12/19/2004 9:49:14 AM
From: sat2000	Respond to of 42834

David in about 2 and a half minutes of air time those boys summed it up pretty good. The segment was titled; Newsletters can cost you a lot more than the subscription! They mentioned how brinker issues a buy on QQQQ in March of 2003 and that is up around 66% since then. They also mentioned how brinker recommended a buy of the same QQQQ in October 2000 and January of 2001 and is down some 52%. He never did issue a sell but brinker never talks about that. He mentioned a guy that listens to and critiques all his show and does a good job of holding bob’s feet to the fire and telling it like it really is. Steve Thompson

To: davidk555 who wrote (21872)	12/22/2004 3:23:04 PM
From: Tim Bagwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Thanks David for the link. This is one of those topics where there isn't enough outrage being expressed in financial circles. If you listen to Bobble's program, you get the sense that nothing bad has ever crossed the pages of Marketbobbler. Somehow, every caller that passes the screener amazingly managed to avoid all the bad tips while investing only in the good ones. What is amazing is their religious devotion to Bobble for giving them masterful market calls, when the real credit appears to be theirs for managing to escape the bad stuff. The QQQQ episode has been one of the most masterful marketing shams of all time and should go down in the annals of history right beside the story of tulipmania. It demonstrates how public perception can be manipulated through controlled propaganda and skewed information. Imagine what it would be like if the Internet did not exist today. There would be virtually no public record of the QQQQ bobble at all and ABC would give a free pass for Bobble to represent himself to all as infallible.