All night I've been making the case for picking individual stocks rather than parking all of your money in an index fund that mirrors the S&P 500. As I point out in how to make money in any market, very few stocks generate tremendous long-term outperformance. But the ones that do rarely come out of nowhere.They tend to be obvious, high-profile, usually in the kind of business that you regularly interact with in your everyday life. But this is a big butt. If you're going to pick your own stocks, you need to ...

Let me tell you why I do this show and why I wrote How to Make Money in Any Market. For most of my life, pretty much everybody in America recognized that picking individual stocks was a fantastic way to get rich as long as you did it right. Not everybody agreed on the right way to do it.But practically everyone accepted that it was certainly worth doing. Then the. com bubble burst in year 2000 and picking individual stocks suddenly went out of style at least for regular people.Suddenly there was a new conve ...