Just reiterating a few points various LT shs have mentioned one...

Just reiterating a few points various LT shs have mentioned one way or another.
It is meant as just a small heads up about the positive unknowns taking place behind the scenes even as the critical/strategic minerals prices have crashed and are considered by some analysts to be near bottom now. Until price recovery, many LT shs have lost much paper value, but that is impermanent loss.

LT shs have a holistic and long-game view of investments and global economics. The reality of the underlying intricate interdependencies between various industries and their products is understood.

As for the continuing progress of technology, LT shs are well aware that the anticipated development of a brilliant new product does not invariably lead to the abandonment of the established competing products that have been developed at the cost of $'Billions and taken years to bring to economic marketability.

The exuberance in the news about the latest low-cost battery type, or hydrogen fuel, or nuclear fuel, etc. does not at all address the high risks involved in changing from an existing EV battery type to the newer and greener types.
No successful global company will change strategies and directions just because product XYZ is the news flavour of the month. The BODs are neither impractically idealistic nor stupid. Businesses are set up to make profits, not cater to the green agenda for the sake of catering to the green agenda.

Even on a much smaller scale, we see the same investment rationale in operation. The everyday hardworking person invests into his/her future along similar lines of reasoning. Eg.:

1. A uni student does not change his/her course of study just because course XYZ is the latest popular trend in the semester. Constantly changing courses will lead to a much delayed graduation.

2. A profitable restaurant does not change its time tested menu offerings drastically just because society suddenly developed a penchant for a new XYZ cultural menu. There are various high risks involved in making the change, including not possesing the right skillsets and disappointing customer loyalty.

3. A home builder does not change the design and materials of the house to be built after the contract is signed with the architect and/or builder. Otherwise, the house will never be finished and the costs keep escalating.

Back to shares investment. Thing is that there are several strategies available, and we all choose what fits our individual risk appetites.
1. LT shs look at the big picture and play the long-game of putting time in the market to secure capital gain. Their motto is Identify Value and Patience.
2. Traders look at the short-term picture of the price movements and try to capitalise on any arbitrage arising. Their motto is Buy-Low-Sell-High.
3. Shorters do the same as (2) above, but in the opposite direction. Their motto is Sell-High-Buyback-Low.
4. High frequency trading and Bot trading can do either (2) or (3).
5. There is no such thing as the perfect strategy, simply because there is no strategy that can tell the future with unerring accuracy. Each comes with its set of risks. To claim otherwise is foolish, or inexperienced.

Which then leads to the puzzling pointlessness of posters trolling those who prefer investment strategies different to their own. I noticed that LT shs when left in peace are much less inclined to go out of their ways to be trolls, and place more emphasis on gathering and analysing relevant facts.

Going beyond pointlessness is the schadenfreude (gloating) of the few posters at the losses suffered by others while at the same time smirking about their own investment acuity. Some even do that on almost daily basis on the same threads and posting the same content (eg. on LTR/PLS).
A strange mentality, indeed. Money might well have lifted them from the gutter, but it still couldn't lift the gutter mentality out of them.

Questions that posters of such ilk should ask of themselves:
Do you also gloat when you know about the accidents, sicknesses, deaths, divorces, business failures, robberies, etc. suffered by other families?
Do you also smirk about how your own lives are free of these difficulties, believing that you are therefore a better person?

Thinking of posting this on the relevant PLS/LTR threads.
But I don't hold enough shares there or long enough to be bothered. Just quick trades for me (and no trolling at others).
LTR is the LT big one, shares-wise.

Everyone rise and fall by their own efforts. Happy for those who succeed, sympathies to those who didn't.
Everyone has made profits and losses before. We know too well the highs and lows. All part of life.