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

To: davidk555 who wrote (2046)	3/29/2008 10:45:05 AM
From: TREND1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2121

David I agree with you 100% Bob Brinker was very bullish then. But I heard him admit on the radio that he was wrong about how far the correction had gone. There ia an old saying "Stay with the trend until it ends"

To: davidk555 who wrote (2046)	3/29/2008 2:45:17 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2121

I'm not sure what you mean by "get a pass." His quantitative returns either beat the market or they don't. One point that some seem to miss is that it is not necessary to call every downtrend in order to outperform the market. It is only necessary to call some of them, and to stay fully invested for the rest. For proof, compare Brinker's performance relative to the market in 1988-1990 to his performance since then. Some people, in their zeal to criticize, like to use perfection as the benchmark against which Brinker is measured, rather than the more conventional industry standard of the S&P 500 or similar indexes.