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

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (3940)	3/9/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

And if the investor had chosen a 100/0 stock/bond portfolio, he would have been up 181% by the end of 1981, even after that wrenching 40% decline in the 1973-74 bear, compared to the 117% returns of the (hypothetical) investor capable of perfect market-timing. What all of this implies is that even God Almighty (or Brinker -- of course, to some people they are one and the same! ;-) ) would find it difficult to beat someone who rides through a bear market, fully-invested in a broadly diversified portfolio. Dipy.