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

To: fahrenheit451 who wrote (28226)	1/27/2007 5:17:16 PM
From: Honey_Bee	Respond to of 42834

I would vote for that, Fahrenheit451. :) .

To: fahrenheit451 who wrote (28226)	1/27/2007 6:05:18 PM
From: shres	Respond to of 42834

'Whether it is advice on Moneytalk or in his newsletter two people often have entirety different interpretations of what he said." said the fake fahre. Oh who cares about that? You never subscribed to his newsletter anyway. Did anybody ever tell you what Brinker was doing in the canyons of Wall Street forty years ago or so? BTW, I see you and the Hon are busy "warning" retiredinprescott and Ralphie that people aren't buying their crap. Why didn't you address the poster rather than posting cheap boiler plate rhetoric? Are you trying to keep the poster boys of poverty on a short leash over at the spyware den? I see the real Math asked a question of retiredinprescott but he hasn't answered yet. Do you realize that he usually takes one of his three or four annual trips to Europe around this time of the year?

To: fahrenheit451 who wrote (28226)	1/27/2007 7:20:20 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

I thought the same thing while reading the exchange. Maybe the reason Brinker says so little new in each newsletter is he crafts it as carefully as possible to have the potential to be right no matter what the market does. What do you think this quote tells new subscribers who had perhaps 60% in equities and 40% in cash when they subscribed to his newsletter on October 1, 2000 and read it for the first time? October 9, 2000: "We recommend new subscribers use any residual strength that may occur in the 1469-1527 rage of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index to position portfolios defensively.." (S&P500 = 1434.32, DJIA = 10,784.485 & QQQQ=85.63) I've read it over and over and , especially after the QQQQ bulletin that came a few weeks later, it sounded like he was telling folks all indexes would go up and that we were closer to a bottom than a top, otherwise he'd have simply said to go to 65% cash and forget about residual strength. The S&P500 never saw 1434... so these new subscribers probably got the QQQQ bulletin, put some of their cash into the QQQQ, and really got crushed. Yet, his advertising makes it sound like he correctly called the bear. I think FuwaFuwaUsagi said it best at the Bob Brinker Beehive in post 1785 and in others where he says people who did better than the market following Brinker were "lucky." Granted, some like dija admit they did very poorly on their own before Brinker so Brinker or an advisor selling a loaded S&P500 index found would have both been a great improvement. Nothing wrong with using either if you understand you could have done better and why.