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

To: queenleah who wrote (1655)	10/17/2007 8:02:36 PM
From: InvesTing	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2121

Well this is indeed very interesting to those who are curious about Brinker. Rather than the usual--he's evil--he's God argument we have thanks to you a testimonial of sorts from his foremost cheerleader on many threads under many names. Never before have you been this candid. So now it is your claim that you are not sure but you think you were not subscribing when he made the 2000 January call? So being "out of state" would have nothing to do with recieving a newsletter. I don't see if one were not subscribing why they would say they didn't follow his Jan call because they were "out of state"? I'm pretty dense so please explain that for those like me trying to understand this. Now secondly you said that you lost lots of money by not following Brinker's advice in Jan 2000. You did follow his advice in Oct 2000. I take it you were a subscriber then because only subscribers got that ACT IMMEDIATELY bulletin. Were you a subscriber in August 2000 when Bob Brinker recommended another reduction in the equity allocation and said for the first time he was "bearish"? If not when did you start subscribing? If so, then it is obvious that you didn't trust Bob Brinker's advice to reduce your equity investing, but you trusted it to buy more in the way of QQQs. That is what those looking to see how loyal Brinkerites used Bob Brinker's advice need to know if considering buying the newsletter. You are doing a great service as Dija did over on 101 when he told how he got out of the market before Brinker recommended doing so. He flipped you flopped it would seem. That is indeed the danger of following these gurus that I have been pointing out. Now one other thing that I don't understand where it comes to stock market investing. You said you didn't sell as Brinker directed and that really cost you. You said that you bought the QQQs as Brinker recommended but thank gawd you sold out for a moderate loss rather than take his advice to hold them all the way down. So you stayed fully invested, bought QQQs and yet you claim you made up the money you lost by doing these two things "many times over" . That seems rather bizzare since of course the market is something like double what it was at it's worst and you didn't take a huge loss on the QQQs but certainly lost. ERgo the math doesn't seem to add up. It would help those of us who are a little slow to understand how listening to and subscribing to Brinker's newsletter helped you make up those losses you spoke of "many times over". Or of course if the "many times over" comment had nothing to do with equity investing and Bob Brinker which clearly would have to be the case it would be nice to make that clear so that no one is fooled. Thanks for this wonderful information for those interested in a marketiming guru and how to follow them.