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

To: pigstuff who wrote (22356)	7/22/2006 1:03:17 PM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

Mr. Pigstuff wrote: I think Bob Brinker is #1. He says so. I think I will write Hulbert and tell him that he is hurting Bob with his phony ratings. He could be sued for damages since his ratings are incorrect, according to Bob. He should be more careful with his publicly written statements." ROFLOL, Mr. Pigstuff!! Perhaps Mr. Farmer would be willing to do that since he posted what Hulbert's Financial Digest claims is Marketimer's actually ratings. As I have documented at Honey's Bob Brinker Beehive Buzz at Suite 101, Bob Brinker's Marketimer rates no higher than THIRD place in ANY category on Hulbert's rating lists. And mostly, if Marketimer makes the top five list at all, it is rated fourth place. And it is important to remember that it is very unlikely that Bob Brinker's Marketimer Model Portfolios would have even made the top 5 at all if Hulbert had not decided to disregard the fact that Brinker used the same money from the Model Portfolios two times. That is, Bob Brinker got a big extra turn at bat with the cash reserves that were raised in the January 2000 sell. This "mulligan" is so utterly ridiculous that if is almost mind-boggling. In spite of having used model portfolio cash reserves, Brinker "chose" not to include his QQQQ trade in his model portfolios, so the Hulbert Financial Digest gives Marketimer an asterick in their record of the "Marketimer." This is the final paragraph on page 5 of the March 2006 Hulbert Financial Digest: "PLEASE NOTE: In late 2000, Brinker forecasted a several-month bear market rally and recommended an investment in the NASDAQ 100-Index--a trade that turned out quite unprofitably. However, because Brinker, at the time of making this forecast, chose not to make this trade part of his model portfolios, his HFD record has not suffered as a result." . . .