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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: RAMc   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: My new Program
Date: 01/22/26 9:18 PM
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Lizgdal; “I will have to review my expectations, but have continued confidence in BCC=0 timing.”

I believe rgearyiii first defined “Bear Catchers Combined (BCC)” in his post “GTR1 and Bear Catchers”
On 9/13/2013: https://yorickm.com/Message.php?pid=30893319

What results do you get post 2013? The problem with that question is we only have 13 relatively good years post discovery with only one short covid bump in the data.

BCC was developed to work for previous Bear markets especially 2008. Any test using data before 2013 is not post discovery. All three seem to likely have some value but I’m one of those old guys that have seen so many market timers do well for a while then fall flat over time. I personally have a little more confidence using a consensus of several systems over on Allocate Smartly. But all their systems have the same problem, they were all developed after all the previous bear markets. None have been tested in the next one.

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