[desmosxxx]

You do know there are thousands of stocks right. how many people dump their entire savings into one stock. 20 years ago you wouldn't have known apple was going on to do so well. If people did know it would have been bid up in price at the time

[qwytw]

Which still means that SOME individual investors will inevitably beat the market.

[amanaplanacanal]

Some will, but there is no reliable way to tell which one in advance.

[ghaff]

And a lot of the Apple run-up happened relatively late in the game. Don't get me wrong. Apple--and what I was able to do with the money--was good to me. But so was a late 2010s Microsoft purchase and I don't think a lot of people are highlighting Microsoft as a stock they missed out on during the last 10 years.