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To: Math Junkie who wrote (24557)	8/29/2006 1:07:15 PM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Thank you--that's interesting data. I guess I could plug in 50% for aggressive investors and come up with perhaps about 12% loss. However, this means that BOB BRINKER is even more dishonest, with less justification for it, than even I thought. He is making himself a liar and perpetrating a major ongoing coverup over subscriber losses that, if they followed his guidelines, was less than 12-13%, instead of coming clean, dealing with it, learning from it and offering guidance on it. As I have said before, when it's all said and done, what Marketimer subscribers actually did or did not do is not the issue. The issue is what BOB BRINKER did or did not do. .

To: Math Junkie who wrote (24557)	8/29/2006 4:55:25 PM
From: queenleah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Glad to hear your explanation about the bonds, Math. Good point. I was just figuring in my head and I assumed you came to it by something like this: .65 ( of portfolio in cash reserves) X .3 (converted to QQQ) = .195 of portfolio (didn't remember the half bonds or fixed income). Then, since the Qs are not at this point worthless, and are in fact worth about half what people would have paid for them shortly after the bulletin, they'd be worth about half of .195 of portfolio, IOW .195 X .5 = .0975, which rounds to 10% of portfolio. That's without considering bonds in a conservative portfolio. Not good, but not ruinous. OTOH, if the investor went in with 20% of cash reserves, with the same method, it would be 7.5% of portfolio. Is that right? Math never was my major. :)