Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.
Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.
In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.
In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.
Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.
It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?