But only if you stick to buying and holding onto a few broad market indexes.
Small companies with value characteristics have outperformed the broad market averages over the decades.
And Microsoft discovers its a bad idea after it blows up in the broad market.
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This is only the seventh time in historyBuffett (above) has underperformed the broad market averages.
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But typically, we hold one big position in more of a broad market index.
This makes it a bit expensive when you compare it to the broad market average.
Short dollar positions turn into long stock trades, which win big when the broad market rallies.
Those Spectrum Funds then invested in two hedge funds, Rye Select Broad Market Fund, L.P.
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These are fast-growing firms, some profitable, but they lack the broad market appeal that Facebook commands.
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And where function leaves off, fashion can take over in moving wearable computers into the broad market.
On the short side, you would have done better shorting the broad market than picking our pans.
Cruise stocks were lifted in July by the rising tide of broad market exuberance and earnings power.
With a broad market index you are diversifying company risk, sector risk and sometimes country risk.
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Certainly broad market conditions have weighed heavily amid the sell-off over the past week and a half.
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Mr. Condon says evidence continues to mount that stock-picking managers don't beat the broad market on average.
Conservative investors may consider hedging these positions with a broad market ETF to neutralize the market risk.
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Prior to the broad market July advance, shares of Walgreen had been under a lot of pressure.
Shares of ESLR have gained nearly 71% since the start of 2007, easily outpacing the broad market.
ETF, which tracks the MSCI U.S. Broad Market Index of nearly all U.S. stocks, has a 3.6% stake.
The industrial sector has been hot this year, always a percent or two ahead of the broad market.
Second, turnover of holdings within a style index is significantly greater than a beta seeking broad market index.
So while the broad market suffered a far worse fate, Microsoft bulls were loading up to the gills.
Back in April, a broad market correction dragged on Citigroup, along with the rest of the financial sector.
Their Global Risk Assessment Indicator (GRAI) shows strong convinction for a broad market decline in the days ahead.
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Until then, new cancer therapies will produce startling instances of recovery--and drugmakers' broad market trials may continue to fail.
Shares of Geokinetics were down 2.2% this afternoon amid a broad market selloff.
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ETFs have some attractive characteristics and provide individual investors an easy way to gain sector or broad market exposure.
The iShares literature classifies EUSA as a broad market fund and groups it with iShares Russell 3000 ( IWV).
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For Russia investors, the broad Market Vectors Russia (RSX) exchange traded fund beat the index to settle 3.82 percent higher.
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More than that, they are in a space with strong growth and a somewhat defensive correlation to the broad market.
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