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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 (24531)	8/29/2006 10:31:22 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

Some people might have missed this from your excellent recap of Mary's call to moneytalk at the Beehive Mary: “Well, we had the right allocation according to, you know, what your guidelines you have set down.” investment.suite101.com I think it is obvious what "guidelines" Mary was referring to... and any speculation she bought these QQQQs in 1999 is lunacy. Mary was simply asking if it was OK to sell QQQQ for a loss to offset gains in VTSMX to raise funds to make a 50% down payment on a vacation home. Brinker pulled the old "answer a different question and try to make her look stupid" to discredit her call. Of course, he probed until he found an area she was not prepared to answer so he could divert the question to that area. He knows full well that asking people their net worth on national radio puts them in a really defensive position too...

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (24531)	8/29/2006 10:35:01 AM
From: shres	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

"Please explain why BOB BRINKER told his subscribers to use "model portfolio cash reserves" while at the same time did not account for it in his "model portfolios." demands one of the conspiracy theorists and armchair economist. Golly Hon, I don't know the answer but does this mean that you had to use model portfolio cash reserves or you couldn't do the trade at all? You were prohibited from using saved up grocery money? Does this mean that only those who followed Brinker's advice and got out of the market at the top and therefore HAD model cash reserves could play? All others must sit on the sidelines? Because, if they followed Brinker's advice and got out at the top and they followed Brinker's QQQQ guidelines THEN, they are ahead of where they would be if they just rode that ol' bear market down. You know, like you, Kirk, Stocka and 101 other fools did.