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

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (22520)	7/25/2006 10:50:02 AM
From: shres	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42834

Ms. Tres falsely claims... "According to Hulbert's, Bob Brinker's Marketimer rates so far down on Hulbert's "top performers" lists, that in February 2006 Hulbert decided to create a special "Timing-only category" so Brinker could be rated "number one" on a "HYPOTHETICAL PORTFOLIO" created by Mark Hulbert..." That's just not true at all. Hulbert was ranking market timer's abilities to time the market, not on their stock or fund picking prowess. Accordingly, Hulbert ranked all timers on the basis of a hypothetical total market portfolio i.e. Wilshire 5000. "The rankings below reflect the performance of hypothetical portfolios set up to isolate and measure timing effectiveness in the stock, gold and bond markets. They were calculated assuming each letter was invested in the appropriate benchmark when "long" or shore," and in 90-day T-bills when in cash." Of course Brinker ranked Number One. The notion that Hulbert somehow created a special "category" so he could rate Brinker Number One is ludicrous.