> Sometimes you can see a company is positioning itself for a great long term position before the entire wallstreet herd takes notice. Well, the investment lan

> Sometimes you can see a company is positioning itself for a great long term position before the entire wallstreet herd takes notice. Well, the investment landscape is littered with the rotting husks of companies with great products. Wonderful, amazing products. They had incompetent management. Or the market for their amazing product never took off. Or there was a general downturn in the economy and they couldn't get cash when they needed it. If the company has demonstrated itself a good investment, you can rest assured the wolves of Wall Street have already picked the carcass clean before you as a retail investor even get a whiff. They run analyses on factors you don't even know about to make their picks, and they do it in large number like you're never likely to see. Even if you make the right picks, it's often the wrong pick. Consider if you had invested in Oxycodone a few years ago. It was a great product, brought simple, accessible, effective pain relief to the masses. Prescriptions were flying off the shelves like no other drug before it that wasn't a statin. I'm sure a handful of retail investors are smugly crying "inb4" but most of them are left holding the bag on that one. Hindsight investing is mostly a bitter strategy.