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

To: Kirk © who wrote (40883)	11/26/2008 3:47:46 PM
From: Midwest_Investor	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

>>>BTW2, what did Brinker recommend doing last week, harassing Kirk? If you interpret my discussion to be harassment, then that's your own problem. and by the way, what makes you think BB would care enough about what you do that he would suggest that people harass you?

To: Kirk © who wrote (40883)	11/26/2008 4:33:01 PM
From: ZinDenver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Kirk, I’m not exactly sure what you’re referring to with your last sentence. Brinker has lost virtually all of his credibility now, comparable to Abby Joseph Cohen. If MOABA is an acronym that Brinker coined, it should not exist any longer. Unlike his Q call, this time it will be too difficult for him to hide his mess. The path of least resistance is to format his show for monotonous talk on issues that are virtually outside the stock market, GNMA or macro economic issues. I suspect that is the direction he will engage the show. The only occasion I foresee Brinker partially saving himself would be to have a sell call near the top of large counter trend rally which afterwards the markets sink to new lows. The possibility of that I suppose is very remote as he tried timing with the Q call, only to watch himself get into a mess.

To: Kirk © who wrote (40883)	11/26/2008 5:58:01 PM
From: gronieel	6 Recommendations Respond to of 42834

"..Or do they cherry pick my one trade that is under water..." LOL Kirk, only ONE trade underwater? I don't believe that for one minute. It's certainly not reflected in your record which shows two of the past four years underwater. And this will make the third year of losses out of the past five years. You say you and Buffett saw the credit crisis and meltdown looming large on the horizon and what do you do? Do you get out of the market and warn your subscriber? Nah, you trade the dips on a handful of mostly penny stocks crowing that you have a few bucks in dry powder while Brinker is fully invested. Even if every single one of your buy the dips, but don't market time, were a raging success you would be still way under water because your total portfolio is largely buy and hold...just like Brinker's. And to actually claim that index investors also held many of your clunkers too is just plain laughable. Then, when you brag about beating Bob Brinker, Warren Buffett and probably Jimmy Rogers more than a few eyes glaze over.

To: Kirk © who wrote (40883)	11/26/2008 8:09:22 PM
From: octavian	4 Recommendations Respond to of 42834

kirk asked joefromspringfield; <<What do your friendly cherry picking experts here do? Do they give me credit for 10 years of making money on Citi while Brinker's best stock pick, MSFT, lost money over those same 10 years?>> --How could we have given you credit for it, when we didn't know about it until just the other day? Also, it's kind of hard to give anyone credit for holding a stock from $53 to $4, even if he did make a lot of money on it in prior years. <<Do they look at recent subscribers who took my advice that Citi, after failing support where I thought it was safe for a first nibble of a few shares.... hit my buy zone and is now up over a 30% in less than a week?>> --This is the first I have heard that any of your subscribers did that. You must have some very brave subscribers. <<From a subscriber last Friday: KL, Bought another 200 of Citi at $4.50 just before the bell.>> --Well, maybe they're not as brave as I thought. That's only $900. <<BTW2, what did Brinker recommend doing last week, harassing Kirk? Too bad he was 100% invested at the very top and may be missing MOABO.>> --You think this rally is the real deal? If so, I hope you're right!