The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.
Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
The simpler it is, the better I like it.
I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.