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

To: milorose who wrote (40558)	11/17/2008 10:03:03 AM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Hi milorose, You are one of many who had their retirement plans changed because they trusted Brinker and bought QQQQ's in 2000-2001. He did a sales pitch on them that went on for several months in Marketimer. He devoted full pages to promoting the trade. He actually made THREE different pitches for buying QQQQ. The original one was in October with the "Act Immediately" Bulletin. The second one was in January 2001 after they had dropped some. He predicted an upcoming "counter-trend rally" for the whole market, which would be led by the Nasdaq. Then in March 2001, after the market (and QQQQ) dropped some more, he said "we were wrong" about the January counter-trend rally, and then he predicted ANOTHER counter-trend rally would begin shortly. I have documented his month-by-month dialogue on this subject. When you put it all together and read it, it's staggering to know that his only mea culpa before burying the whole thing was a simple, "we were wrong." .

To: milorose who wrote (40558)	11/17/2008 10:26:26 AM
From: Midwest_Investor	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

If you were retired, why would you risk your nest egg? If you followed 'all' of Bob's advice at that time, you would have been in Portfolio 3 and been okay for the most part.

To: milorose who wrote (40558)	11/17/2008 11:18:54 AM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

milorose, Hold on to your hat! Here it comes! You make a statement that Brinker's advice damaged you and now you are personally targeted for attack by Brinker's boys (and girl). .

To: milorose who wrote (40558)	11/17/2008 1:07:31 PM
From: queenleah	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Good for you, but it sounds like a pretty shaky retirement if one trade on one issue "took you out". That's what I mean by exaggeration.

To: milorose who wrote (40558)	11/17/2008 3:02:37 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

milorose at 11/17/2008 9:22:42 AM wrote: I just know his qqq trade took me out of retirement, thats why I did not lister to his buy calls this time! Do tell us more. Don't let the shills drive you away. Your story matches what many have emailed me but the "shills" here accuse people of lying. I think it would take a fool to follow someone on a second buy call if the first buy call was less than expected AND did not get adequate follow-up advice. The shill idea that anyone who put 50% into QQQ following Brinker in the $80s and held it from $87 to $19 then loaded up as instructed in the mid $20s in 2003... made it back is absurd given the QQQQs are back to the 20s. I believe CDs may have outperformed the QQQQs since the April 2003 newsletter that said to dollar cost average back in...