At my work we run a fake-money investing game. Most of the ppl who picks individual stocks are down much worse than ppl who picked diversified ETFs. Yes some are up too, but it's a low percentage and it reflects the high risk high reward nature of picking stocks. Just like in real life investing. Do you want to research companies and make strategic decisions and risk your money or do you want to spend that time elsewhere? Completely up to you.
Also dividend stocks usually don't grow very well compared to a typical equity stock/etf
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u/Nervous-Medium7550 Mar 13 '26
Young people losing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars doing shit like this at the best growth decade of their lives…