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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paulnewmanhero who wrote (40391)	11/14/2008 8:09:49 PM
From: Midwest_Investor	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42834

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To: paulnewmanhero who wrote (40391)	11/14/2008 8:17:31 PM
From: Midwest_Investor	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

>>>I read through the last 50 or so posts and it seems like the majority are about another person's newsletter named Kirk. The reason for this is Kirk specifically tells folks that some of his products are an alternative to some of Brinker's recommendations. So, therefore, it's fair game to talk about Kirk's products on this Brinker Board, since he offers them as an alternative. If you are interested in Kirk's newsletter, I'm sure Kirk would love to have you as his subscriber. Go for it!!!!!! By the way, Welcome!!. I don't think I formally welcomed you in the past.

To: paulnewmanhero who wrote (40391)	11/14/2008 9:53:06 PM
From: octavian	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

paulnewmanhero said: <<Your premise seems to be that anyone who comes here who is critical of Brinker is a basher and that everyone else wants to talk just generally about him.>> --Ah, welcome back paulnewmanhero! No, that is NOT my premise. Many people here ARE bashers (by which I mean they will do virtually ANYTHING to make him look as bad as they possibly can, and will NOT engage in intelligent discourse). But only some of us want to talk intelligently about him. Those posters would include math, queen, and M-I (I may be forgetting someone). Well, also allancoleman on the rare occasions he is here. <<I read through the last 50 or so posts and it seems like the majority are about another person's newsletter named Kirk.>> --Right. Kirk is one of Brinker's major bashers. He used to run a message board about brinker, and his strategy was to kick anyone off the board who supported brinker. When he couldn't dream up a good enough reason to kick them off, he either deleted their posts or harrassed them off the site, or had his minions do it for him. Now kirk is using tactics very similar to Brinker's to sell his own newsletter. THAT is why some people here want to discuss kirk. <<To answer your other question I did raise cash in 2000, used that cash for the QQQQ, missed the buy signal in March by a few days so dollar cost averaged in after that. I don't think Brinker is infallable never did. But I had never seen Brinker issue a bulletin before and seem that admant about it (the act immediately bulletin) and so I put in the recommended amount for someone in portfolio I.>> --OK. Thank you for the answers.That puts you far above the other bashers, who will NOT answer questions when they believe doing so will damage their anti-brinker agenda. Obviously, you didn't get hurt badly by Brinker's advice, and your complaints have to do with things other than financial harm. <<The problem I have now with Brinker is not that he makes mistakes its how he handles them and what I perceive as major character defects in who I once thought could be a trusted financial advisor. His arrogance on top of that only makes it worse.>> --I agree.