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Re:Five Biggest Stocks Are 23% of S&P 500 Market Cap by throw0101a on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:27AM (#25254713)
Better to "blindly" invest in a passive index fund (S&P 500, Russell 3000, etc) than to try to pick an individual stocks. Most people will get positive results/returns on the former and worse results for the latter.

Evidence for this has been around for decades:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

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