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"Average" is a bit misleading word when it comes to the market.

If you're a top investing expert, you do things carefully in the right way, and you don't make mistakes, you can expect average performance. Because the market primarily consists of experts like you.

Of course, investing is a random process, and you often beat the market by being lucky. But luck doesn't last indefinitely.

There are basically two ways to beat the market consistently. One is trading based on information not available to the rest of the market. This is sometimes banned, because it makes the market less fair and less efficient. It can also be a crime. The other is finding a market that's small enough or obscure enough that it's not interesting to the professionals.

But there is no investing stat that allows you to beat the market. Life is not an RPG.




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