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Pick out some tech stocks you like. Nvidia or ARM or whatever you believe in. Make a thesis.
Index funds are boring, guaranteed mediocrity and it is very possible to beat them. I beat the NASDAQ by 78% over the last two years and probably much more over a longer period (the chart my bank gives me stops in September 2023), mostly thanks to being early on NVIDIA and crypto last cycle. It's not impossible to make those calls and beat index funds. You don't need to read reports, outsmarting the giga-quants at hedge funds isn't about doing more work or being smarter than them, it's just about deducing the right thesis from having the right vibes. The numbers are already priced in, vibes are where the alpha is.
Of course I've made lots of mistakes and lost lots of money in various errors. That is inevitable if you make aggressive moves and control your own money. I encourage against using leverage. I encourage patience. But risks are needed to earn rewards.
Heavily seconded. My best gains have been in stocks from companies whose business I have known and occasionally patronised over a half-decade.
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