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

To: InvesTing who wrote (1658)	10/17/2007 8:45:22 PM
From: queenleah	Respond to of 2121

Stockie, please see my post #1652 for the answers (yet again) to your claims. Once again......... I lost far more as a result of MY failure to act on Bob Brinker's brilliant January 2000 call than I ever did by acting on the October QQQ call.

To: InvesTing who wrote (1658)	10/17/2007 9:27:45 PM
From: joefromspringfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2121

InvesTing Now I think I finally understand it. The queen became a Marketimer subscriber sometime in 2000. The first time she followed Brinker's advice was when she got the QQQ bulletin. She lost a small amount because she didn't have huge cash reserves since she didn't sell in January. It also helped that she didn't take Brinker's follow up advice to maintain the position. I think she only followed Brinker's advice once and lost money. This is a significant departure from other Brinker fans who claim they only followed Brinker's good calls.

To: InvesTing who wrote (1658)	10/17/2007 9:41:25 PM
From: octavian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2121

InvesTing said to queen: <<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.>> --No, that is NOT what I did. I sold two mutual funds in 1999. One was an emerging markets fund which I thought might be hurt by Y2K. The other was a tech fund which had doubled in a ridiculously short time. The two combined were a small part of my total portfolio. AFTER Brinker's call, I sold some more. Then I continued to sell off gradually through the year, culminating in the sale of another tech fund (which had TRIPLED in a short time) in July or August. I went from about 80% stocks to about 30% over the course of about a year, partly on my own volition, and partly because of Brinker. You need to understand that most of us just listen to Brinker for input, but make our own decisions, right or wrong.