 This served as the basis of his mutual fund timing strategies.According to Barron's, Blake placed second in the U.S. Trading Championships in 1988 and first in 1989-1993..According to Andrew Selby's posting on www.donttalkaboutyourstocks.com/market-wizard-gil-blake/ on February 26, 2013 his top five quotes from Gil Blake listed in Jack Schwager's book Market Wizards (1992) were