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Originally Posted by rsmurano

Why is it so far fetched to make $$$ in the stock market? I know most investors make little to nothing in the market long term, which is a shame. I already told you 1 stock that did well, look at some of these that have increased 50%-90% since April 1st: vistra, vrt, dell, ceg. There are many more too. It’s no secret, the data is out there, you just need to look for it and think for yourself is it going to be a good investment for me now and long term. Put a trailing loss on each stock if you don’t want it to go down much, or if you see there are headwinds coming, take the emotions out and sell while it’s still climbing and don’t regret it, no matter how much more it goes up.

Most investors buy into active mutual funds that have very high expenses, high turnover, high load fees, and probably pay an advisor 1%-1.5% on top of that.
IMO, investing involves research, common sense, no emotions on buying and especially when selling, and a broad look at what’s going on in the country/world. Everything else is just noise.

I would imagine that if one lives that close to the bone financially, all that effort trading constantly is their job to make enough money on which to live. Who, in their retired life, wants to be tied to a computer, day trading and dancing around to make more nickels? What a suck of life hours to be watching the pyramid scheme, alias stock market to garner more nickels if one doesn't have enough saved for retirement.