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

To: queenleah who wrote (40619)	11/18/2008 12:52:06 PM
From: gronieel	3 Recommendations Respond to of 42834

"...One good point you do make is that the QQQ is small potatoes--but then it always was..." Exactly Queen! And that's why milorose and others like him are reluctant to discuss specifically how Bob Brinker "ruined" their retirement. Not one single one of these sob sisters has EVER disclosed the amount of QQQs they purchased. Could it be that they don't want to disclose their greedy disregard of prudent standards?

To: queenleah who wrote (40619)	11/18/2008 1:03:12 PM
From: joefromspringfield	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Queen I did not say the QQQ losses were small potatoes. Thousands participated and millions of dollars were lost. You are distorting my words to try to make Brinker look good but then we all know that is your agenda. Others who did not follow Brinker also rode the market down but the were not paying an advisor who had been telling them for years that all they had to do was send him $185 each year and they could avoid bear markets. Brinker clearly failed them and I suspect he will pay the price in fewer renewals. Brinker's record in 2008 speaks for itself. Buy the S&P 500 at 1400, 1300 and 1200. Now in the 800's he is dollar cost averaging. Then there is this. STOCK MARKET BEARS.... Brinker said: “So what we have here basically, is an example of false prophets and it’s sad. And the reason it’s sad is the damage done. Think of the people that are looking today at the market, S&P at 1400 and they’ve been scared out of the market in the first quarter by these bears………It’s just amazing and yet these people are out there, and these people are not happy, I’m sure, to find themselves out of a rising market since March. To find themselves looking for ever lower prices when in fact we’ve had the opposite. Now these people are sitting in the catbird seat with those watermelon smiles while Bob Brinker has egg all over his face.

To: queenleah who wrote (40619)	11/18/2008 6:22:43 PM
From: queenleah	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42834

Joe said: The total amount of money that Brinker's subscribers lost in the QQQ trade is small when compared to the amount of money they lost this year... That's what you said, Joe. And that's what I'm agreeing with-- your speculation that the Qs are a small thing compared to what's here and now. You also implied that it's all Brinker's fault. It's true that he failed to identify the impending bear. But you have no knowledge as to who did what or how much. You guys always act as if all Brinker subscribers follow every word out of his mouth and every single bit of opinion or advice that he gives. The fact is, you don't know any of it. You're speculating as to who lost what and why. I'm agreeing that the QQQ trade is a small thing compared to the current crisis. But is never was as big a thing as you all made it out to be (or tried to).