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

To: Math Junkie who wrote (41329)	12/17/2008 9:10:43 PM
From: octavian	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

math said: <<In my case, after I started posting there, Pig turned it over to Honey, and it just wasn't the same. Do I understand correctly that Pig is running the place again?>> --Yes, the piglet is now manager. It's very hard on honey; she's like a pit bull on a leash, wanting to ban bigleagueblogger, but lacking the authority since she gave it up. I don't think the piglet likes censorship. I understand why you haven't been posting there. But I find it strange that bashers such as newslettercheat, et al, kirk, joefromspringfield, etc. very, very seldom post there. Honey sometimes transfers their posts there, but they seldom post there on their own. Korn never posts there either. But of course he doesn't even post on his own SI board.

To: Math Junkie who wrote (41329)	12/18/2008 12:24:15 AM
From: Midwest_Investor	5 Recommendations Respond to of 42834

>>>the fact that his model has turned out to be hit-or-miss makes the whole issue of whether people are distorting his record seem a lot less important. His model has certainly been hit or miss on the last go around. You may or may not have noticed I'm less enthusiastic about Brinker lately because of this. That is, if I ever was enthusiastic to begin with. But what I find disturbing are others who are selling their own products who come in here and act like they're some kind of expert on all things related to investing. Often this is done with an enormous amount of arrogance. Some even try to act like they rub elbows with well known names in the investment community. Here again, there is a type of arrogance which is displayed. On occasion, they will post a link to their own site, which is basically nothing more than spam. These are the people who show up after a market move and claim that they sold at the top, and bought at the bottom, while the whole time claim they don't try to time the market. Then you look at their annual results and realize that the simple IFA-50 account beats them hands down, with much less risk, and fewer tax implications (for those investing in a taxable account). Of course, when you point this out, they say you are cherry picking, then they cherry pick a time when they did well, and tell you all about it. Then they claim others to be liars. All, of course, in defense of their "record." I find these people to be disturbing. Luckily their numbers are few.

To: Math Junkie who wrote (41329)	12/18/2008 8:45:00 AM
From: joefromspringfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42834

Math said: "In general, I haven't seen all that much that I've wanted to comment on on ANY Brinker board lately, and the fact that his model has turned out to be hit-or-miss makes the whole issue of whether people are distorting his record seem a lot less important." I feel like we are making some progress when die hard supporters of Brinker are starting to have some doubts about him. Lets look at his hits and misses since 2000. 1. Jan 2000 partial sell. HIT 2. Oct 2000 QQQ trade, Miss 3. Mar 2003 buy signal. HIT 4. 2008 buy at S&P 1450. MISS 5. 2008 buy at S&P 1300 MISS 6. 2008 buy at S&P 1200 MISS 7. Failure to call 2008 bear market MISS 8. S&P will hit new highs in 2009 TBD I have two hits and five misses with one to be determined that looks like a long shot.