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

To: yaetmo who wrote (24450)	8/28/2006 11:21:48 AM
From: queenleah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

I've done what Mary did many times. I hear a recommendation that peaks my interest, but then I've waited for a sure-thing entry. Maybe that is a lower price, a bargain, maybe it's a confirmation the investment is moving the right direction. I'm not a lemming that marches off with one nudge or suggestion. (emphasis added) Absolutely right. That's what we've been saying all along. Many of us are that way. No one should be a "lemming". Brinker has always said that investors should make their own decisions. IMO, that's why he wouldn't give Mary a specific "sell" or "don't sell" on a specific individual holding. But it seems that many Brinkerbashers think that so many other people they like to call "goobers and geezers" are incapable of thinking for themselves or making a responsible decision. Often they seem to be proposing that every subscriber who got the special Brinker bulletin marched right to the phone or to their broker and put in the maximum, so they were all "devastated" and "ruined".

To: yaetmo who wrote (24450)	8/28/2006 8:22:25 PM
From: dijaexyahoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

yaetmo said: <<OIC dija, you feel it's OK when you use a very liberal amount of imagination, but it's not OK for Kirk to use some. IMO, a good example where your blind hatred greatly diminishes your normally fairly decent credibility.>> --I have to believe you are being argumentative just for the fun of it. Obviously, I didn't use ANY imagination. I simply said Mary did not say whether she bought the Qs on brinker's recommendation or not. There is no way to know. Kirk assumed she did, and I said it is not right for him to make such an assumption. How you translate THAT into "blind hatred" is way beyond my ability to understand. <<Btw, the great Q call was Oct 2000.>> --Right. My error. She bought them in 2001, months after the bulletin was issued. <<To me, it's very plausible that Mary bought several months later because the buy order still appeared to be intact.>> --Again, I never said it wasn't plausible. Isn't it equally plausible that she bought them for some other reason, and didn't even discover brinker until 2003? A lot of people bought QQQs in 2001 who didn't even know who brinker was. << Then she waits years for further guidance on what to do.>> --You're speculating here, just like kirk did. If we go strictly by the evidence, she simply wanted to know if she should sell the QQQs at a loss for a tax deduction, since she has to raise money some way in order to buy a house. There was NO indication she had been "waiting for guidance." I don't think she even knew about the 2000 call, but I don't know that for sure. <<To cap if off, after years of no direction, we find he quietly sold his Q's and then told people months afterwards that he had done so.>> --Quietly? He PUT IT IN THE NEWSLETTER!!! Under "Model Portfolio Changes." I can't imagine how Mary could have missed it. Obviously, she was not thinking about selling them or "looking for guidance" in April. She only began thinking about it when she and her husband started thinking about raising cash.