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

To: Scales off who wrote (23037)	8/4/2006 7:48:17 PM
From: dijaexyahoo	Respond to of 42834

Scales off said: <<If one hides a material call in their record, they are likely not someone you would ever want to trust with your money.>> --What are you talking about? Are you talking about the lousy $185 some people pay him for his newsletter? Other than that, NO ONE is trusting him with their money. The only thing most of us are doing is listening and reading his ideas and recommendations, and then making our own decisions as to whether to act on them or not. We don't have to "trust" him! Would I turn $1 million over to him to manage for me? Absolutely not. But then, I wouldn't turn $1 million over to ANYONE to manage for me!

To: Scales off who wrote (23037)	8/4/2006 11:58:33 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 42834

"What is even more ridiculous is to claim that he can predict the market in the long term better than he can predict the market over the short term." Warren Buffett has made that claim. "I was no good then at forecasting the near-term movements of stock prices, and I'm no good now. I never have the faintest idea what the stock market is going to do in the next six months, or the next year, or the next two. "But I think it is very easy to see what is likely to happen over the long term. Ben Graham told us why: "Though the stock market functions as a voting machine in the short run, it acts as a weighing machine in the long run." Fear and greed play important roles when votes are being cast, but they don't register on the scale." I'm not claiming that the above is an endorsement of what Brinker is trying to do, since Buffett was talking about much longer trends than what Brinker is trying to identify. But at the very least it ought to caution us that "ridiculous" is a pretty subjective assessment, IMO.