top | item 22440904 (no title) crystaldev | 6 years ago Yes, and also some companies may be affected more by their own fortunes, or the fortunes of their particular industry, than by the mood of a monolithic "market." discuss order hn newest Scarblac|6 years ago 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. perl4ever|6 years ago The nice thing about indexes is there are so many of them...I read somewhere there are actually more ETFs now than individual stocks.
Scarblac|6 years ago 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. perl4ever|6 years ago The nice thing about indexes is there are so many of them...I read somewhere there are actually more ETFs now than individual stocks.
perl4ever|6 years ago The nice thing about indexes is there are so many of them...I read somewhere there are actually more ETFs now than individual stocks.
Scarblac|6 years ago
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.
perl4ever|6 years ago
I read somewhere there are actually more ETFs now than individual stocks.