Everyone Criticized Me For Selling My Stocks. Good.

The Real Reason I'm Selling Every Stock I Own

A few weeks ago I published a piece saying I wanted to sell all my stocks.

I got criticized for it.

“But everything’s at all-time highs.”

Exactly. When are you supposed to sell, at the lows? Of course you exit at the highs. And the longer this lasts, the worse the day it ends.

But that’s not the point. Today I want to make one clarification. I’m not going to teach you anything new. I just want us all on the same page.

Let me start with the obvious: I don’t recommend buying stocks.

The moment you buy one, you’re already losing. You pay the spread. And the day you sell, the taxman takes 25% of the gain in the best case. You worked, you were right, and you still hand over a quarter of what you made. By design.

And here’s something almost nobody stops to consider: when you pick an index, you’re rejecting every other one.

Choosing the S&P 500 is not the “neutral,” “passive” option they sold you. It’s a bet. A concentrated one, on large U.S. companies, that you made without thinking. You didn’t cho…