In reality few of us spend much time talking up our own stocks.  Mostly we talk in fairly general terms and how perhaps a particular stock fits in..  Hardly the realm of talking up or stock promotion.

No one needs to join the club - if dividend stocks and holding investments for more than few days or weeks isn't for you move on to a column that fits your world.   Don't waste your time trying to understand dividend investing - and trying to disprove decades of evidence with your anecdotal "facts".   Think we are being harsh - stroll down memory lane and review some of your earliest comments where you posed as the eager novice investor looking to learn gradually shifting to ridiculing every dividend based column with the refrain of I can beat those lousy dividend stocks with more than half my portfolio sitting under my mattress.