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    90% of Retail investors do not beat the S&P 500 in last 15 years. Anybody lucky enough to be the 10% ?

    READ FIRST: I am discussing picking individual stocks not if you hold indexes, ETF, or mutual funds. lol I see there is some confusion in comments.

    I’m a retail investor (individual stock holder) I beat it at times, but rarely over a 1 year span.

    90% of Retail investors do not beat the S&P 500 in last 15 years. Anybody lucky enough to be the 10% ?
    byu/Leosown inwallstreetbets



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    6. Leosown on

      P.S This is not to discourage anyone. I think we should post are performance every month we beat the S&P ! That’s the whole point of picking your own stocks for gains 🔥

    7. its_meech on

      I believe it, but retail traders have become more sophisticated over the last few years. Playing stocks 15 years ago was much less common and “not a cool thing”.

    9. lysergic_af on

      I’m up like more than 1000% in the past decade from getting lucky and buying/holding some TSLA stock when i was a teenager. Now that I’ve sold it and actively trading, mainly been losing lol hopefully will turn that around at some point soon again ?

    13. 246ngj on

      My Robinhood acct is up 21%ytd and my Charles Schwab is up 40% ytd. Thank you tech stocks

    15. PoundAffectionate300 on

      Coin did well for me last year, research bitcoin 4 year cycle to get ahead of it.

    18. lordfappington69 on

      absolutly not.

      My 401k and ROTH IRA are doing great. In index funds.

      The $20-30k i used for personal investment/options was all pulled out with a valuation of $5,000

      Just stick with indexes and you’ll be a millionaire.

    24. NeuOhio on

      I’ve beat it every year over the last 5 years. Sometimes by 1%, other times have been over 40%.

    27. No-Purchase4052 on

      I’ve been ahead of the SP500 every year for the last 5 years… but my portfolio is just a modified etf within itself. Anyone who had bought and held MSFT AAPL GOOG META NVDA AMZN over the last 5 years has been killing it.

      Investing isn’t hard. The less you trade the better you usually do.

    29. nyfan2112 on

      I definitely have some years, and haven’t others. Over 15 years, I haven’t been doing this…

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