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[seminole]

Take a chill pill!!!! Russell (Dow Theory Letters?) has been our local bear in our local paper for 20 years.

How the advisors stack up: two views

Investment newsletters can be compared in terms of the relative performance of their model portfolios. The Hulbert Financial Digest tracks the leading publications on that basis. The following were the best-performing newsletters over the past 20 years, by return, according to Hulbert. Relative risk was not taken into account.

Newsletter and Percent gain

1. The Prudent Speculator 16.3%
2. The Chartist 15.9
3. The Value Line Investment Survey 15.4
4. No-Load Fund-X 15.0
5. Dow Theory Forecasts 11.2
Source: The Hulbert Financial Digest, through 4/30/01

Using a different proprietary formula, Forbes ranks the best-performing newsletters - with their model portfolios' potential performance in both bull and bear stock markets taken into account - as follows:

1. Bob Brinker's Market Timer/ Robert Brinker
2. Dow Theory Forecasts/ Richard J. Moroney
3. No-Load Fund Analyst/Steven Savage
4. No-Load Fund Investor/Sheldon Jacobs
5. Value Line Investment Survey/ Harvey Katz

Source: Forbes Global "Newsletter Honor Roll." Returns from 1990 through 11/30/00.