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

To: BFree who wrote (41595)	12/24/2008 8:31:00 PM
From: octavian	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42834

BFree said: <<...I've noticed many of those who I would call "believers" or those who are promoting Bob Brinker claim that missing the bear market was a non event and he could not be faulted for doing so.>> --No one said it was a "non-event." << They give various explanations of why no marketimer could have predicted a bear market. I found that ludicrous, but so be it.>> --I would have found that ludicrous too, if anyone had actually done it. <<Thus I am talking about the honesty and character of the person giving the advice. It seems most beside you want to avoid admitting the obvious.>> --Let me know which obvious things I have "avoided admitting," and I will admit them, if they are actually obvious, or even if they are simply true. << And if you can't trust the guy, and he misses the biggest call in the last 70 years, of what value is he?>> --If you hire a financial advisor and do everything he says, trust is required. If you listen to/read Bob Brinker, trust is not necessary. All that is required is that you have enough sense not to follow him blindly, but use his input as something to consider, and to research further if you so desire.