“If Buy-and-Hold Were a Real Thing, the Buy-and-Holders Would Welcome the Challenges to It That I Bring to the Table.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

I don’t think a single person alive would take your market timing portfolio over my buy, hold and rebalance portfolio.

We disagree.

I think it’s telling that you are the one who insists that the Ban on Honest Posting re the last 40 years of peer-reviewed research remain in place while I argue that it should be lifted. I have had many people tell me that I am the first person they have come across that talks about stock investing in a way that makes complete sense. If Buy-and-Hold were a real thing, the Buy-and-Holders would welcome the challenges to it that I bring to the table. The defensiveness shows that even the Buy-and-Holders do not have strong confidence in their strategy. They very, very, very much want to believe. But it is such a struggle for them to do so that they feel compelled either to engage in criminal behavior to block discussion of the peer-reviewed research or in many more cases to tolerate criminal behavior on the part of others. Not good.

That’s my sincere take, Anonymous.

I naturally wish you all the best that this life has to offer a person.

Rob