why i stopped trying to pick stocks 👀
okay real talk — when i first started, i was CONVINCED i was going to find the next big winner 😅
i'd spend hours researching one company, get all excited, buy it… and then watch it do absolutely nothing while something i never even looked at took off 🤷🏻♀️
eventually it clicked: for most of us, picking individual winners is really, really hard. even the pros who do this full time mostly can't beat the market consistently.
so instead of hunting for THE stock, i just buy all of them 👀
that's basically what diversification is — spreading your money across tons of companies instead of betting it all on a few.
why i love it:
- one company tanking doesn't wreck your whole portfolio
- you don't have to be right about which stock wins — you own the winners automatically
- way less stress and way less time spent researching
- one broad index ETF can give you hundreds or thousands of companies in a single buy 🚀
the tradeoff? you'll never get that "i called it!" bragging-rights moment from a single stock mooning 😅 but honestly, i'll take sleeping well and steady long-term growth over the ego boost 💛
this is a big reason my portfolio leans on broad index ETFs. i'm not smarter than the entire market, so i just let the market do the heavy lifting.
not financial advice, always do your own research 💛
are you a stock picker, or team diversify-and-chill? 👀
