The Foolish Four will be included in the Workshop Portfolio, which starts in early January. It is being included as a value strategy to balance the new high growth and momentum strategies and because value stocks usually do very well during market recoveries. Now, we just have to get to the recovery. I have picked the Foolish Four as one component strategy in next year's Workshop Portfolio , and that is causing some consternation.
Consternation is understandable.
We just announced that we are no longer advocating use of the Foolish Four and that our original assumptions about how the Foolish Four might perform were wrong. That would certainly be the easy course. And explaining my decision in detail requires getting into subtleties which I know darn well are usually ignored. But I'll try. The Motley Fool isn't turning away from the Foolish Four 180 degrees.