Low fellow rubble capital, hope you're well. So everybody always hears the narrative, buy and hold.

Just buy and hold, dollar cost average, buy the dip. It's not about timing the market.

It's about time in the market. Yes, that's the saying. But we never stop and think about whether or not this is empirically true.

Like if you go back in time and look at history, has that worked?

You just hear this from the Dave Ramsey types.

You hear this from people on social media.

You hear this in the mainstream media and the financial news,

that all you have to do is buy and hold.

Buy and hold.

That's the prudent thing to do that's

the smart thing to do because everybody knows that over the span of a long period of time

the stock market always goes up and what they'll do is they'll show you charts conveniently

from 1980 to today.

And they'll show you these charts and they'll say, well, look at this.

Right here.

It's undisputable.

The stock market always goes up.

Well, again, today I want to put that to the test.

And I think the results of the empirical data will shock you. And in fact, I would go so far that if I was going to put money on it, the buy and hold type of investors that are just dumping money into a 401k

and just the ignorance is bliss strategy is what I call it, or the ostrich strategy,

where they just buy and hold because everybody else is doing it. And everyone knows that's the

smart thing to do is bury their head in the sand. And they don't want to know about it.

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