That is one of the biggest downsides to my pump and dump formula is you can be 100% right and have to wait 7 years or more to finally profit.
Many stocks that are garbage get pumped and dumped over and over.
I was in LTNC in 2015 before the first pump and it was pumped 3 times.I wish I had never sold it obviously since I bought in at 0.0001.
I bring up that stock because tons of people were calling the leader a con man and saying the company was/is garbage and even under the assumption that is true it made no difference.