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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 (2770)	8/7/2014 9:54:02 PM
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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. PETE, I did not intend to imply, nor do I believe that Brinker has influence on the stock market. I do not believe that if Brinker made a major market call tomorrow that it would move the markets. Where did you get that idea? My opinion on that subject is that the market is moved by huge institutional players who are investing for huge accounts of billions and billions of dollars. When Brinker makes a major call, yes, his subscribers generally take his advice and do what he says. But I did not mean to imply, nor do I believe that the relatively small amount of money involved in such moves would affect the market materially. Brinker's followers have a small amount of money compared to the billions in institutional accounts: Pension plans of entire cities and states, large university endowments, hedge funds, leveraged traders, short sellers, etc. Many many years ago the individual investor controlled the markets. Now it's the institutional players