The Wall Street Journal has run an experiment for quite some time where staffers chose stocks randomly by throwing darts at a dart board, and compared the resul

The Wall Street Journal has run an experiment for quite some time where staffers chose stocks randomly by throwing darts at a dart board, and compared the results of their picks to those of professional fund managers. The random picks almost always won. Here's an example: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/random-darts-beat-hedge-fund-stars-again-2019-06-26 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/random-darts-beat-hedge-fu... To do much better than the index over a long time frame would probably require a time machine.