re: Thinking about quitting stock picking

Why you gotta go and throw facts out to crush my dreams?

In all seriousness though, I'm not advocating everyone putting all their money in individual stocks and swinging for nothing but homeruns. As I've stated in this thread I have a good portion of my money in index funds just like everyone else. I just don't subscribe to thought of not even attempting to pick stocks because it's a "fools errand" or whatnot. Many things are a fools errand until they work out. There's only one guarantee in the stock market, and for life in general really, and that's if you don't try it surely will never happen.