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

To: Rillinois who wrote (7627)	9/4/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: MrGreenJeans	Respond to of 42834

"Straight Up" Rillinois <<hey, if you need a good laugh today why not repost some of Don Lane's messages>> If I compared Don's net worth with yours I suspect I know who would be laughing and who would be crying. Just an observation. Don has convictions and even if he is right only 55% percent of the time his record would be better than most. His record is out there for everyone to take "shots" at...but I will get to yours momentarily. "Straight Up" a slang term used in inner cities meaning tell me the truth, let's get real, put it on the line. Let's get your analysis and outlook and let me ask you a few questions, you should not hesitate to answer since you are not using your given name <VBG>: 1. What is your outlook for the market? SPX index highs and lows for the next year? Same for the Dow? What level will the Dow be at at the end of the calendar year? 2. What stocks do you own and at what prices? 3. What mutual funds do you own? 4. What is your net worth? 5. What is your asset allocation? 6. What is your portfolio up / down this year? 7. What stocks do YOU recommend and at what prices? 8. Are we in a bear market, is this a correction, where specifically is this market going? Most others on this thread have touched on the aforementioned issues at one time or another, they have created a thread record by posting for better or worse, commit yourself, put it on the line... It is easy to be critical...stick the old neck out...

To: Rillinois who wrote (7627)	9/5/1998 1:28:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

rillinois, abbey, joseph con (did i mispell that? ;-) is saying the dow market is properly valued at 9300 with this news... exchange2000.com would someone give that woman some smelling salts? i think she's dead and doesn't know it yet. ;-) it appears that corporate earnings, or the lack thereof, don't fit into bob's bear model, either. too bad. his model is about as good as monkey with buy button in front of it.

To: Rillinois who wrote (7627)	9/5/1998 9:46:00 PM
From: Dogbert	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42834

I heard the show today and was saddened when a caller mentioned that Ralph Acampora's call looked pretty good right now and BB attacked him, saying that Ralph Flip-Flop's call came out around 8500, after the market had already declined 800 points. When the caller pointed out that the market has already dropped another 1000 points, BB again went on the offensive saying he wouldn't consider it a genius call unless RFF had made it above 9000. Of course, BB would never admit that he did not make any such call at all, nor would he say that his buy call at 8650 was over 1000 points too high (to date), nor that his recommendation to buy UTEK has so far yielded significant losses, etc. My point is simply that BB is too eager to make fun of his peers whose calls are no more inaccurate than his own. BB has enough devoted mind slaves calling in every weekend to support anything he wishes to say, however, which keeps his ego inflated so he can continue to laugh at his peers whose calls are less than perfect without discussing his own imperfections. I am pretty close to tuning out on this show after many years of devoted listening. (I'm sure many will reply to this saying good riddance, we don't need anyone who questions anything he hears.) One more thing, by the way, has anyone considered that BB may steadfastly hold to his bullish view through continued declines, just as the permabears he ridiculed so long did through the bull market. Remember Joe Granville, Elaine Garzarelli, Bob Prechter, etc. So many gurus whose records were absolutely stellar, and who eventually took their followers down by steadfastly holding a view that simply proved wrong. BB is not immune from this himself.