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

To: ETF1 who wrote (2768)	8/7/2014 9:03:44 PM
From: Boca_PETE	1 Recommendation Recommended By Honey_Bee Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3605

ETF1, His weekend radio show used to be two days - 3 hours per day. Now, it's only broadcast on Sunday for 3 hours. As I remember, he had many more stations broadcasting his program in the earlier years after going national in 1985, including many more in major cities covering lots of area. The last I saw listenership ratings of his and other shows, his show was rated in the 2's compared as I remember to the 5's in the earlier years. I don't know comparative data on his Marketimer newsletter, but I'd guess it was much more in the earlier days. Also, Bob did listener investment seminars around the country in the earlier years and I haven't heard of him doing that in recent years - I even attended one in New York City when I lived there. Based upon all of the above observations, I would guess your conclusions about the influence on the markets themselves of Bob's market calls are way overstated. I doubt if a large enough number of obsessive current subscribers and listeners could move the investment markets significantly one way or the other. He is just one viewpoint amongst many out there in a world where there is a constant stream of different views being expressed on the domestic and foreign business cable TV channels on a daily basis and the investment markets are now global. Also, he may have already developed his "proprietary" timing model before starting in radio when he worked at a major bank. He may have started sharing its components gradually on the radio and later in his published newsletter. JMHO, P