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by pmiller2 2134 days ago
The Wall Street Journal has run an experiment for quite some time where staffers chose stocks randomly by throwing darts at a dart board, and compared the results of their picks to those of professional fund managers. The random picks almost always won. Here's an example: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/random-darts-beat-hedge-fu...

To do much better than the index over a long time frame would probably require a time machine.