The wealthy investor also has timelines. Some are shorter and some are longer. There's no problem with having either, the idea is to have a plan though. A target date where your plan is executed. The target date was last year, and then summer, and then September, and now we have no target date. I had planned my investments out in a way that catalysts and profits from one company could then be used and transferred to another company based on each companies given timelines. I've missed two doubles which I would have otherwise been in if CUU had paid out, or at least even gone up a bit when it was supposed to, and supposed to based on managements timelines. I never invested there because I had thought, for the same risk I would get a greater return here. Opportunity cost is starting to be a real killer. I'm not a trader, I invest in fundamentals and also try to speculate on an educated basis. Part of the fundamentals is time and risk. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the time value of money, and opportunity cost is just as important as value, and in fact I'd argue is part of it. We've been missing that part of value.
The other problem with your idea is that, unlike EE not all of us are wealthy (yet). Many of us are normal people. We're in the middle class. We're working individuals who have taken our money into our own hands. We have obligations. We have expenses. Life just happens and sometimes we just need money now even if we didn't a year ago. Which, a wealthy person would have access to and not need to be concerned about. We are however. Different people have different needs, expectations and risk tolerances. The investments we choose are largely dependent on what we're told, and if we're given wrong information than our investment stratagies and tolerances sometimes don't become aligned or in synch anymore.
All that said, I'm sure we'll get a payout and I'm sure many of us will wait. The problem is that many of us shouldn't have to be waiting and many of us just can't wait. This is starting to feel like Zeno's Paradox.
