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Re:We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on ... by Scarblac on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:30AM (#22441607)
But it seems to be accepted wisdom nowadays that nobody can pick stocks and beat the average consistently.

So what a large chunk of the market ends up doing is buying index trackers or achieving the same goal by spreading investments as widely as possible.

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Re:We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on ... by perl4ever on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:10PM (#22448495)
The nice thing about indexes is there are so many of them...

I read somewhere there are actually more ETFs now than individual stocks.

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