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

To: Investor2 who wrote (3572)	2/24/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Rock Fish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

>You said, "The variables involved are part of a partial >differential equation." Are you certain of this? If so, >how do you know? I2, No, I don't know the type of timing model Bob uses. It was an assumption on my part. See my post in response to Tim B. Regards, -- Rock Fish

To: Investor2 who wrote (3572)	2/25/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: David Bogdanoff	Respond to of 42834

I2; I would venture the thought that BB's model would not use differential equations(or anything so complicated). His professional experience does not lead one to think that he uses anything other than well known market indicators and historical guidelines to call the market. Needless to say, he does very well with this. Just my opinion. Interestingly, Peter Lynch does not use any sophisticated mathematics for his investments either. And neither does Warren Buffett; in fact, Buffett does not time the market or the economy and just focusses on picking good business franchises and buying them at attractive prices to allow for possible errors in evaluating their business worth. Its rather interesting to see how different Buffett's investment approach is to BB's. There are some quant mutual funds that use sophisticated mathematical models such as neural nets. I believe that Fidelity has a couple run by Brad Lewis (Stock Selector, I think). Good luck. David