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Re:Five Biggest Stocks Are 23% of S&P 500 Market Cap by throw0101a on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:43AM (#25254900)
> The ones hurt by an investment failing are just the investors themselves, which is the whole point of investment. You take the risk and reap the rewards.

Counter-intuitively, investing in the Top 10 stocks has actually gotten you worse results than the market average.

If you took Top 10 stocks at the beginning of each decade (1920, '30, …, 2010), and followed how it did for that decade (e.g., 1920-1929) it would done worse than the market average (by 1.51% annually on average):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foqswJT3Spc

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