If your only way to make money is stay long. It won’t be long before you are inevitably wrong.
That could be a song.
Sing along.
I don’t invest. I trade. In trading you need to regularly take money off the table.
What I fear is everyone in some way is an investor and is invested long (housing, stocks, funds, pensions etc) in things that may not be as easy to take off the table as table as they think. If at all.