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

To: Math Junkie who wrote (1792)	11/7/2007 12:17:53 AM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2121

Math Junkie said: "The bulletin did not exclude the model portfolios from the trade, but the next regular issue of the newsletter did just that, before the major losses occurred." If you really believe that, can you explain these small excerpts from what Bob Brinker wrote in the next several months of Marketimer? . * November 2000, Marketimer: Bob Brinker said: "In sum, subscribers can use a portion of their 65% stock market cash reserve position in order to purchase QQQ shares OR Rydex OTC Fund....." . * December 2000, Marketimer: Bob Brinker said that a "countertrend rally"...."has the potential to carry the Nasdaq indexes as much as 40% to 50% above their late-November closing levels over the next three to six months." . * January 2001 Marketimer: Bob Brinker said, "We continue to emphasize the guidelines we have recommended with regard to the exposure in the Nasdaq 100 Index for the countertrend rally phase we expect......" . * February 2001, Marketimer: Bob Brinker stated that the "bear market rally" had commenced and he expected the timeline to be "three to six months as measured from the starting point Jan 3." . * March 7, 2001, Marketimer: begins with Bob Brinker admitting that "we were wrong in our earlier expectations that a countertrend rally would develop late last year...." He then admits that even his call for a new bear market rally beginning on January 3 "was unable to sustain upward progress" in February. In spite of these admissions of being "wrong," in the same issue of Marketimer, Bob Brinker again made the following recommendation to subscribers: "In our view, the probabilities favor a three to six month bear market rally phase beginning shortly. Such a rally has the potential to carry the Nasdaq composite Index above the 3000 level by spring or summer as measured from the closing lows." . * April 6, 2001 Marketimer, Page 2; Paragraph 5: Bob Brinker said, "Recent weakness in the Nasdaq 100 Index (QQQ) shares has far exceeded our expectations. However, we believe subscribers holding a position in these shares will eventually be rewarded, . * May 7, 2001 Marketimer: Bob Brinker said, "As we stated last month, 'with or without a buy signal from our long-term model, we expect the Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq 100 Index to stage a significant recovery over the next several months.'" (May 1, 2001, QQQQ closed at $44.73) . * June 2001, Marketimer: About the Nasdaq 100 Index (QQQ) shares, Bob Brinker said: "....we recommend holding these shares for future recovery within our earlier percentage guidelines." (June 1, 2001, QQQQ closed at $45.70) . * July 2001, Marketimer: Bob Brinker said, "We also recommend subscribers with a position in Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) shares hold for price recovery within our earlier percentage guidelines." (July 1, 2001, QQQQ closed at $41.76) . Math junkie...do you need to be reminded what Bob Brinker's "EARLIER PERCENTAGE GUIDELINES" were? .