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

To: mister topes who wrote (2885)	1/18/1998 10:24:00 PM
From: Alan Bell	Respond to of 42834

I, for one, am pleased that Bob answers questions on Intel. If the program simply talked about the relative performance of some mutual I have never heard of, I would stop listening. Intel has been the one stock that he has talked about for quite a while. By hearing about his Intel trades, we get a chance to see how he thinks about a stock. While we may get exposed to the issues affecting a stock, picking the salient ones is hard - Bob has been doing that. I will be waiting for Bob's next trade. It will most likely fortell Intel's next (and probably inevitable) move up. -- Alan

To: mister topes who wrote (2885)	1/18/1998 10:43:00 PM
From: Mark Pritikin	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 42834

<<How many times has he told you he reentered Intel at 69 for a trade on the theory the stock was oversold. How many times has he told you this weekend he soldout at around 77 after earnings were reported>> I like his show, but I don't think thats quite how it went. We heard he was bullish last Sunday and that "he" had got in at 69. The stock had closed the Friday before Bob's show last weekend at around 72 and opened higher Monday and closed the day at 75. So if we followed Bob's bullishness on Intel last week, we were in somewhere between 73 and 75. We tune in next week only to find Bob out at 77. However, Intel closed at bid 74 3/4 and for all we know may open down. My point is that this type of advice is not really characteristic of his investment philosophy. His "whipsaw" advice on such a widely held stock appears to be more self serving to Bob's trading saavy and ego. I don't think it serves his followers well to get a conflicting message about staying fully invested vs. trading on a weekly basis for 10% short term gains. While your point about INTC's lackluster 52 week trailing performance is true, it should be pointed out that the stock almost tripled from 25 in the preceding year.