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

To: Math Junkie who wrote (23611)	8/14/2006 1:50:50 PM
From: stockalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

"None of that provides a justification for omitting a major failed call from his advertising, IMO. For one thing, he should have explicitly stated in the bulletin that it was not going into the model portfolios, because it would have been easy for a subscriber to be unaware of his past pattern, as Hulbert apparently was." While admitting the shady nature of Brinker's QQQQ dishonesty; you certainly go out of your way to provide a QQQuite illigitimate alibi. Read that paragraph of your's. Please give me Brinker's "past pattern" of handling his calls in "bulletins" and how could ANYBODY know what he was going to do with information that was so important that he sent a special bulletin urging immediate action? Just the dates of the "bulletins" prior to that on in Oct 2000 that make up the "pattern" of how you claim Brinker would handle bulletins. Please give me a single instance in Brinker's history prior to Oct 2000 when he told anyone to invest a significant % of cash reserves (up to 1/3 of an entire portfolio) and did not count it in his performance.

To: Math Junkie who wrote (23611)	8/14/2006 2:42:41 PM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Math junkie, the "first" Fahrenheit, said, "For one thing, he should have explicitly stated in the bulletin that it was not going into the model portfolios, because it would have been easy for a subscriber to be unaware of his past pattern, as Hulbert apparently was." Right! But just think how utterly STOOOPID Bob Brinker would have looked if he had said to his subscribers at the beginning: I'm recommending that you use cash reserves raised from my model portfolios, but I'm not going to include the trade in my model portfolios. I think even the most naive subscriber might have taken notice of that. Instead, this is what he said in the first Marketimer after the "Act Immediately" Bulletin: November 2000, Marketimer, Page 2, Paragraph 4: "In sum, subscribers can use a portion of their 65% stock market cash reserve position in order to purchase QQQ shares or Rydex OTC Fund...........The ideal accumulation price range is in the low-to-mid 70's." . .

To: Math Junkie who wrote (23611)	8/14/2006 2:53:54 PM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Math junkie, How are you going to spin this one from the November 2000 Marketimer? "In sum, subscribers can use a portion of their 65% stock market cash reserve position in order to purchase QQQ shares or Rydex OTC Fund...........The ideal accumulation price range is in the low-to-mid 70's." . .

To: Math Junkie who wrote (23611)	8/14/2006 4:21:26 PM
From: fahrenheit451	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Math Now I get It. The cash reserves did not come from Bob Brinker's model portfolio they came from YOUR portfolio. So Brinker doesn't have to account for the loss in his portfolio but you do in yours. Then in March 2003 Brinker still has all of his cash reserves to put back into the market but YOU don't. What about those in the BJ group. I am afraid they are in the same boat as you. While Brinker has had decent returns for his model portfolio since 2000 your actual mileage might vary.