Comment by kerkeslager

The thing is, picking a company that actually will generate solid long-term revenue isn't really a thing. You can try, but your success rate, if you're good at it, is going to be about equal to the success rate of companies. There are dozens of studies of professional traders showing this. If you're bad at it, you'll buy into the companies that are pure hype and do worse. And... you probably aren't good at it. Most people aren't.

The people who beat the market consistently have information you don't. Instances of people who call major trends before they happen and get rich are likely survivor bias and not genius.