An index fund holds every company in a list — the S&P 500, say — in proportion to size. You are not picking winners; you are owning the market and letting the winners grow into a bigger slice on their own. It is the closest thing investing has to a default answer.
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An index fund's job is to…
Beat the market
Match the market at very low cost correct
Time entries and exits
It makes no attempt to be clever. That is the feature, not the compromise.
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