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

To: johnny58 who wrote (21983)	6/15/2005 9:03:32 PM
From: Investor2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Hi Johny58. I believe that the primary reasons why the posting has slowed way down at this site are: 1. Most of the posting of recent years was done by "Brinker-bashers." The "Brinker-bashers" have been having an increasingly difficult time of finding fault with Bob Brinker since his excellent long-term calls of the recent past. 2. Also, many of the "Brinker-bashers" have tired of leveling the same criticisms against Bob Brinker over and over and over and over and over and ... That's only my opinion. There are probably many other reasons that contribute to the slowdown in posts. Best wishes, I2

To: johnny58 who wrote (21983)	6/16/2005 8:44:15 AM
From: fahrenheit451	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Johnny Since people were BURNT so badly by Brinker in October 2000 when he told them to put up to 30% of their entire portfolio into the qqq, nobody pays any attention to him anymore. He has become as irrelevant as Joe Granville.

To: johnny58 who wrote (21983)	6/17/2005 10:35:53 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 42834

The other replies have given you a range of opinions as to why this thread has been dead lately. There is occasionally a bit of discussion on the moderated thread: Subject 36098 There are also discussions on Suite 101 and the Yahoo UTEK thread. suite101.com messages.yahoo.com

To: johnny58 who wrote (21983)	6/22/2005 6:36:40 PM
From: Tim Bagwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Hi Johnny, I agree it's pretty dull around SI these days without the critics to liven up the discussion. If you're a Brinker supporter, there just isn't much to say as is evidenced from the two active threads here on SI. In my case, I have moved to a neutral stance where Brinker is concerned. This happened after I attended a Brinker appearance earlier this year where Brinker was nearly booed by a crowd who was well aware of the Bulletin #1 fiasco. At that appearance Brinker made a public admission of wrongdoing by his organization (the infamous "we"). He still has not taken personal responsibility nor has he made a public apology or explained why he failed to issue an exit plan. All I ever wanted was for Brinker to explain publicly what went wrong so we could at least learn from it. Brinker operates too much in the realm of a tipster and that is unsettling to me. At this point, I feel like we have a partial act of responsibility and knowing Brinker's character I know that's all we can ever expect to get from the guy. So I'm not impressed by his actions but I'm ready to end the ranting. I'll just sum up my feelings with this anecdote. I view Brinker the way I view a baseball pitcher throwing a no-hitter streak. Everyone marvels at how good he's pitching at that moment in time but no one really understands how anyone can be that good. They forget that he couldn't find the strike zone last season and was close to being traded. The fans of his team will rub it in the faces of the opposition but they can't tell you how it's done and certainly could never do it themselves. The pitcher himself can't even tell you how he did it. It's pure statistics mixed with lots of practice that dictates if you throw enough times you'll eventually have such a streak. And for that one season that pitcher will surely rise to become a star, his contract price will go up and he'll make a fortune. No one considers at that moment that the pitcher started as an average pitcher and will ultimately return to average performance. For now, he's a star.