> a consistent way to make money Who said it was? As per my last sentence my conclusion was that you only need to be right few times over your life time to bu

> a consistent way to make money Who said it was? As per my last sentence my conclusion was that you only need to be right few times over your life time to buy a very good company that is mispriced for whatever reason and that retail investors hold often deep understandings of key industries that professional analysts don't. If you're willing to do due diligence (and learn to do so which is far from trivial) and act you can definitely see good long term returns on a good number of picks. Point is, stock markets only beat bonds in the long term, if you are in the stock market to do + some % in a short time it's gambling.