I see you are on fire in this thread...but...bh. The bold there. How can that be? Shall I just fade all of the LR forecasts and be right more than wrong? That is what success would look like. Not much of a forecast if it's worse than a coin flip.
A lot of people in here are disbelievers in the LR forecasts and models until they see the whites of the snowflakes. I myself am coming around to the year-end changes but my faith in anything past day 10 is very limited for good reason, and that may be that you are somewhat correct: Long range is more often wrong than right. So, in that case, the skeptics are on the right side of the trade, no? That would be rational.