The brokerage has a team of about six people plus fengshui masters -- they won't say who they are -- working on the report for several months leading up to the publication.
But Mr. Ergen doesn't discount the role of luck, which may be why he has several bottles of fengshui water in his office and says he has "feng shui-ed" with rituals for luck all his satellite launches since Dish first sent a satellite into the sky in 1996 on a Chinese rocket that was charmed by auspicious Chinese water and chants.