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

To: gronieel who wrote (41793)	12/29/2008 7:34:04 PM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42834

Brinker should have answered the caller's question about advice BRINKER GAVE to buy CA GO bonds on the radio rather than evade the question. Why not explain how this works and that call risk is real with these bonds? investorwords.com Why make up some silly reply that made it sound like he had DIFFERENT bonds than she was asking about? Who cares what he owned? Are YOU going to answer those two questions? This forum IS about Brinker... not about nits in my replies to your spin or what comment Honeybee deletes from her blog. Can you or have you ever gone a week here without posting off topic insults at Honeybee or me? (that is rhetorical... I prefer you answer the first two. We already know you have only one interest here... attacking Brinker's critics.)

To: gronieel who wrote (41793)	12/29/2008 9:36:35 PM
From: joefromspringfield	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42834

gronieel said: "Yet you have the temerity to say what you recommended "did better" than Brinker. Hogwash! [You know Kirk, I think you are a little embarrassed that in a couple of days you will have had 3 losing years out of the past five years...and the market even went UP in some of your down years.]' OK lets see how Bob Brinker has done over the last five years. The value of Portfolio 1 on 12/31/03 was $184,995. The value on 11/30/08 was $166,651 for a loss of $18,344 or -9.9%. The value of Portfolio 2 on 12/31/03 was $150,369. The value on 11/30/08 was $138,520 for a loss of $11,849 or -7.8%. The value of Portfolio 3 on 12/31/03 was $153,833. The value on 11/30/08 was $158,046 for a gain of $4,213 or + 2.7%. Of course this doesn't tell the whole story. If a subscriber had his money in a taxable account he would have paid income taxes on the distributions for the mutual funds in each of the last five years. It will be interesting to see if Brinker still publishes his five year numbers at the end of this month.