[cool_dude85]

Selling winners and buying losers sounds an awful lot like "buy low, sell high".

[vmg12]

Company performance doesnt follow a uniform distribution where each company is as likely to overperform as any other. Selling companies that are run well because their stock went up is a great way to miss out on a lot of money.

[cool_dude85]

If you're reliably beating the market over a long time horizon by picking specific stocks, you're a billionaire, or soon to be.

[vmg12]

This is a non sequitur. We are talking about the standard weight s&p 500 vs an equal weight s&p500

[potatoman22]

Picking an equal weight fund is closer to picking specific stocks than investing in the S&P500 imo