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To: Paul Engel who wrote (73629)2/14/1999 2:17:00 AM
From: Barry Grossman  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Paul & thread, OTOT

An interesting column from Europe:

The little man is king
Wall Street is feeling threatened by small-time internet traders
Message 7819664

day traders are not always as ignorant as the professionals like to think. Look up a company such as Cendant, say, at a popular investor website such as Silicon Investor and you will find earnest and well-informed discussions about how its dividend or its share buy-back programme may affect the stock price. Online discussions of computer companies often revolve around highly technical details of hardware or software produced by the company. When it comes to information, many private investors are no longer very far behind Wall Street, if at all.

It is also worth remembering that when it comes to investing, the professionals themselves are not very good at it. Last year barely 15 per cent of US mutual funds beat the Standard & Poor's 500 index. It would be hard for the general public to perform much worse than that, even if it were trading blindfold.
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