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

To: stockalot who wrote (22921)	8/2/2006 11:56:56 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 42834

Funny. Remember that a big part of Brinker's show used to revolve around callers asking him if they should keep this or that fund. He'd ask them when they bought it then compare it to the Total Stock Market fund at Vanguard. If any of the funds under performed, no matter if they had a different charter, Bob would make a big deal of how could the caller keep such a fund and who would make such a recommendation to keep such a fund. Today, most of those callers would be asking about his recommendation to put 20 to 50% of "cash reserves" into the NASDAQ100 Fund that is still down over 50% after nearly 6 years. "Hold for future recovery" in the mid $40's was in itself a bad call where a sell in the mid $40's when he said to HOLD would have had the benefit of compounding interest over nearly 5 years! With QQQQ at $36, I get such a laugh when dija and math say they credit Brinker with making a good call each month in the 1990's to stay fully invested but they don't give him a monthly bad call for the period between October 2000 and today for his bad advice to first buy QQQQ as high as $87 then "Hold for future recovery" when in the mid $40's. QQQQ trading History investment.suite101.com Math's Brinker Allocation History investment.suite101.com Hard to believe!