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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker, Moneytalk and Marketimer -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: octavian who wrote (1099)	9/22/2007 6:40:19 PM
From: InvesTing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2121

<<IOW, anyone who has followed him in lock-step since he started talking about a secular bear has made out like a bandit.>> Bob Brinker claimed he was bearish when the QQQQs were trading at 80 something in October 2000. Bob Brinker urged all subscribers whether conservative or aggressive to buy QQQQs at that time. He told them to use 12% to 33% of their entire stock money to do so. Bob Brinker urged people to hold on as the QQQQs declined and has never closed out that trade. The QQQQs today on the eve of the 7 year anniversary of that once in a lifetime opportunity that Brinker sent to every subscriber are trading at 50. Bob Brinker might be more like a liquor store robber than his unfortunate followers described as "bandits". Why promote dishonesty? That is the least you should expect from a financial advisor. Do you work for or know Bob Brinker?

To: octavian who wrote (1099)	9/22/2007 7:00:19 PM
From: sweetsue	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2121

Octavian...let's set aside your opinion of this woman's motives and talk about what she has documented about Brinker's market timing/analysis abilities--okay? Let's talk facts. Has she said anything that is not true about Brinker? If so, please set the record straight. Has she left anything out? If so, please fill us in. You say that, in your opinion, Brinker is not "doing anything to harm his listeners" by not informing them that he has decided that the secular bear market megatrend which he said started in March 2000, ended a year ago in June 2006. I submit that his silence about this on his radio program has the potential to financially harm many listeners who are currently investing with the belief that Brinker still believes the stock market is in a cyclical bull which is running under the (Brinker's word) "headwinds" of a secular bear megatrend. Brinker's claim that the market had entered an 8-20 year secular bear megatrend was a major miscalculation on Brinker's part. It shows a real lack of market analysis ability on his part. Let's face it--he blew it big time, and is now distancing himself from it as fast as he can. History has clearly shown that the secular bull market that began in 1982 has never ended. There was a cyclical bear market from March 2000 to October 2002. (October 2002 was the actual cyclical bear market bottom.) Why do you suppose NOONE has been allowed on the air to talk about the secular bear market for months now? Brinker used to talk to callers at length about the subject. .