I’ve read and fully consider your post, but-consider-this:
We’re up something like 80% YTD so far, right? I’m talking 2017.
2016, we were up HUGELY on our YTD.
The 5-8 years prior to that?
Not. Pretty. At. All.
So “if” he said 2016 was the turnaround year like you said, then he was right.
It takes a little time, sometimes, to turn the titanic around.