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

To: rsie who wrote (22107)	12/12/2005 4:57:38 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 42834

I listen to him occasionally. And I don't trash Brinker all the time. Definitely not.

To: rsie who wrote (22107)	12/14/2005 3:34:25 PM
From: stockalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

"I am perplexed? no wonder this thread is DEAD!!!" I think perhaps blaming Dippy or the critics of Brinker for the thread's demise is quite bogus. Brinker's star began to fall in the fall of 2000 when he could not even keep his own boards open where only people paying him 185.00/yr could post. Since then it has continued to the bottom as far as internet popularity is concerned. I see that you joined SI a few weeks after "Don Lane" (mistertopes) Brinker's online ego did. I see that of the 800 posts you've made here 700 of them have been on Brinker's sites including UTEK. About the same posting pattern as Don Lane, and some of the more rabid fans that have disappeared. It looks to me like many simply became disenchanted with Brinker. As you know Justa, Brinker's favorite SI figure seemed to quit following his advice and moved on to his own style of investing after losing his job with the closure of Brinker's threads. I would say the other Brinker threads died primarily because many who thought themselves sophisticated investors found they had become something of a zombi waiting for some guy with a crystal ball to tell them what to do. Riding a bull market led to some heady times and a cult like atmosphere among the faithful. When the wheels came off with the QQQQ trade, first Brinker's site and then the sites about him began to crumble, not because of the critics imo, but because the scales came off the eyes of many who believed in him. One long time SI poster told me when I reminded him of his faith and staunch backing of Brinker, enough to insinuate that someone reporting Brinker had stopped library subscriptions was lying, that he and Justa were "too optimistic" about Brinker at the time. I think that is a mild way of saying that many became disillusioned and moved on. It is the only thing that makes sense when you listen to his program now--compared to the late 90s. In the late 90s there were all kinds of stock questions that were fairly complex from callers who claimed to be subscribers. They mirrored the discussion on SI at the time. Now if you listen to Brinker and someone claiming to be a subscriber asks a question it is likely to be a 'geezer' "Bob I'm 92 yrs old and I want to buy some more 20 yr TIPS with my social security check" or a goober "Bob would you pay off my mobil home or buy stock in I-Bonds?" So I'd say Richard you have stayed loyal to the guy longer than the large group that was much like you. Do you know him personally?