But there are a lot of simple strategies which do.
Here's how you can beat the S&P500 👇
1. Size matters
In general, small cap stocks perform better than large cap stocks due to the law of large numbers.
Small cap stocks outperformed large cap stocks on average by 3.6% (!) per year between 1927 and 2009.
2. Valuation matters too
The cheaper you can buy a stock, the better.
Buying the cheapest stocks based on a simple price-to-sales ratio managed to outperform the market with 3% per year, achieving an annual return of 14.2% (!).
What I learned from the best investors in the world.
1. Charlie Munger about the first $100k:
2. Peter Lynch :
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.
3. Joel Greenblatt:
Buy good companies (high ROC) which are cheap (high earnings yield) .
Greenblatt's Magic Formula returned 33% per year to shareholders.
Rule 1: Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
Rule 2: Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have.
Rule 3: Over the past decades, stocks have been dominated by a herd of professional investors. This makes it easier for the amateur investor. You can beat the market by ignoring the herd.
Rule 4: Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.