pnathan is not beating the market return and he is not aiming to. One buys ETFs to try and match the market. And any decent ETF will get very close to the ETF's

pnathan is not beating the market return and he is not aiming to. One buys ETFs to try and match the market. And any decent ETF will get very close to the ETF's benchmark. This tells us that the markets he is following must not have raised 40%. Which is good because it means he is diversified. As for randomness, ETFs provide exposure to thousands of stocks which better than anything else averages the randomness.