"You don't think trends and patterns matter? Then only buy stocks after a double top and sell after a double bottom."
I would buy "double tops" or "double bottom" I don't mind, as long as the intrinsic value is way greater than the market value. But I don't check charts and it's technical indicators anyway, so it doesn't matter, I only look at the numbers.
As for "Value pretenders". lol. Yes, there are many of those but I'm not one of them. I'm the one holding HERB stock. I can show it to 100 value investors and none of them would buy it. So who is the Pretender here?
You thought that being on the opposite side of the crowd is enough to be a value investor? There are many stocks out there, how can you be so sure that you picked the right stock that typical value investors would pick? What if it is not a value stock as you thought it would be?
And if you have not even read any book about value investing, how can you claim that you are one of them? It doesn't make sense to me. The first book published about value investing is called "Security Analysis" NOT "Technical Analysis."