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

To: eighttimes who wrote (42814)	8/16/2010 11:05:15 AM
From: Kirk ©	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

About once a year, Mark Hulbert does a full page write-up on each of the newsletters he follows. This was what he said about Brinker's results that do not include Bob Brinker’s QQQ mistake: Brinker’s fund selections on average have lagged the market. The HFD reports a 10.1% annualized gain for his “Aggressive” portfolio, which is 0.5 percentage points per year less than what this portfolio would have made if each of its funds were invested in the Wilshire 5000 during the times they were owned. and Please note: In late 2000, Brinker forecasted a several-month bear market rally and recommended an investment in the NASDAQ 100 Index—a trade that turned out quite unprofitably. However, because Brinker at the time of making this forecast chose not to make this trade part of his model portfolios, his HFD record did not suffer as a result. __ Mark Hulbert on Page 5 of the March 20010 issue of "The Hulbert Financial Digest" What Hulbert says about the QQQ is quite misleading. Nowhere does Brinker say in the document that he was not going to put the cash held in reserves into the QQQ. If you had 65% in cash reserves waiting for Brinker to give you instructions on when to invest it, what would YOU have done if you were aggressive and got the following letters in the mail? I know for a fact that the managed accounts Brinker was advertising for "money management" in his newsletter were invested in the QQQs and I'll post proof below.

To: eighttimes who wrote (42814)	8/17/2010 9:02:50 AM
From: gronieel2	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42834

"Don't believe the lies you see posted on other boards about Brinker's Hulbert ranking. Brinker ranks in the top five over the past 20, 15 and 10 years in the June 2010 Hulbert newsletter. His 20 year ranking outperforms the Wilshire 5000 Index by 1.5% annual since 1990. Its all in the Hulbert newsletter." Thanks 8times for the real scoop on Bob Brinker. I see when you posted that info at the "other boards" you were promptly banned from further posting. I too was banned from that site after posting ONE simple question. It should be noted those "other boards" are nothing more than Brinker bashing sites designed to lure unsuspecting readers into subscribing to a competing online penny stock newsletter. I should have said a wannabe competitor because the author has been begging people for years to write to Mark Hulbert on his behalf. With no results Brinker obviously still has a national audience and a very successful newsletter and I guess that's what attracts the amateur wannabe knockoffs.