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 ...