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Strategies & Market Trends : Stock and Bond Market-Timing: Can it be Done? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Boca_PETE who wrote (2764)	8/7/2014 11:09:24 AM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3605

KGO began carrying Bob Brinker's Moneytalk in 1986-87 and that is when I began listening to him. I subscribed to Marketimer soon after that. I was a subscriber when the the 1987 market crash hit. Brinker was clueless about it, just like he was the 2008-09 crash. When he sent me a renewal notice, I wrote and told him that I saw no reason to subscribe after that big miss. That was before the internet (for me), so unless you subscribed, there was no way to know what Brinker was covering up in those days -- or know that he was covering up. So it came as a big surprise to me when I found out that Brinker had gone to cash soon after the crash and stayed there while the market climbed.... So the one time that he went to 100% cash, it was a big mistake!

To: Boca_PETE who wrote (2764)	8/7/2014 7:50:22 PM
From: ETF1	2 Recommendations Recommended By Boca_PETE Honey_Bee Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3605

To the contrary, he seemed to poo poo timing market stating that the long term dollar-cost-averaging investor buys more shares when the markets correct, He poked fun at pundits like Elaine Gazarelli and others appearing on Louis Ruckyser's Wall Street Week who appeared to warn investors to get out of the market at certain times. Very interesting PETE. I suspected that might be the case. It would be fascinating to find out what caused him to change his mind about market timing. And then to take the giant leap of becoming a market timer himself. And all that is involved with becoming a market timer: coming up with "a timing Model", "timing indicators", making market calls that impact huge number of people's lives in a big way. That goes way way beyond "educating people about the market" on the radio and in the newsletter. There are a huge numbers of people who anxiously or eagerly check Marketimer each month for "the timing signal" that will cause them to sell or buy the stock market. The whole thing has totally morphed from "education" to following a guru. If he sent out a "Special Subscriber's Bulletin" tomorrow saying to "sell the market, we are going to have a bear market, sell now," tons of subscribers would loyally follow that advice.