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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 (5993)	7/15/1998 11:18:00 PM
From: Rillinois	Respond to of 42834

don, so Brinker's model hasn't been tested in a bear market, has it? Is Bob learning on the job? Why didn't he have this new model in 1987? So is it possible that Bob will just touch up the model again if it misses the next bear market? Doesn't Bob warn us about these money managers that have no experience in a bear market. It doesn't sound like this new and improved timing model has any experience. This is starting to sound a little like her ladyship blaming the bad data being entered in her model. And now we're supposed to believe it works. No, really though, it works. <g> Best Regards. Rillinois. P.S. don, are you ever going to talk about OnTrack Systems, an official Marketimer recommendation?

To: mister topes who wrote (5993)	7/16/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: MrGreenJeans	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Now Playing at the Theatre of the Absurd Director / Producer: MrGreenJeans Actor: Don Lane MrGreenJeans: "Don, can you read that portion of the script again?" Don Lane: <<"Brinker's timing model in its present form dates back to 1988. It was not in use prior to then. Timer Digest ranks Marketimer number one for the nineties. #1 for six years to 6-30-98 too. Ratings are current. Record is crystal clear. He earned money market interest during 1988 as market meandered around 2100 after selling above Dow 2000 and buying back in shortly afterward. Since October 1990 fully invested all the way". >> MrGreenJeans: "Don, What was that? Since October 1990 fully invested all the way." Hold on I think you misread the script. I have my October 4th, 1990 Marketimer, Volume V, No. 10 in front of me. You remember the DJIA was at 2452.47 and the S and P was at 306. Please allow me to read you paragraph 6 on the front page of Marketimer- "In sum, our equity allocations are 55% in the United States, 30% in Europe and 15% in short-term cash reserves (money market funds)." MrGreenJeans: "Please Don learn the lines better for tomorrow." You see Don 55% + 30% is...85% and not quite the 100% you claim as in"Since October 1990 fully invested all the way." The purpose of my posting this information is to set the record straight. The posters on this thread, many who subscribe to the newsletter, deserve nothing short of the truth and the truth in October 1990 was that Bob made a very good call that got even better going into 1991 but he was a bit short of being 100% invested. That is the record. I had a professor that once said, "the hardest thing to sell in the market is the truth." Let's not embellish the record. Play it straight. Bob's record is exceptional. And if anyone thinks I am bashing Bob please read my prior posts...I am an admirer.

To: mister topes who wrote (5993)	7/17/1998 1:28:00 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

The important thing is -- what did Brinker suggest his investors to do in 1987/88 immediately after the crash? Because an investor following his advice doesn't really care if it was the old model or the new model or just tea leaves, for that matter! The thing to be kept in mind is the advisor -- regardless of whether the model was old or new -- was Brinker. So, the question is -- did Brinker's advice help the investor or not? Everything else is irrelevant -- including whether the old model (if any) was used as toilet paper or not. Dipy.