Investing consists of exactly one thing: dealing with the future. And the future has one law: it is uncertain. Every strategy ever built is just a different answer to that single problem.
Which is why the distinction that matters isn't bull vs. bear → it's risk vs. uncertainty. Risk is what you can measure, price, and size around. Uncertainty is what you can't. Confusing the two is how smart people blow up: they sized for the risk they modeled and met the uncertainty they didn't.
So the job was never prediction. Anyone claiming to know the future is selling you their confidence, not their accuracy. The job is construction → positions that pay well when you're right and leave you standing when you're wrong.
You don't beat the future by seeing it. You beat it by surviving every version of it.