• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Well, impossible to do with certainty.

    But people are paid to try and do it at investment banks, and with enough outsider knowledge they can often get it right

    Of course that’s practically just gambling at a much greater scale

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      7 hours ago

      they can often get it right

      They fail to outperform a broad market index like 85% of the time, and they charge fees for it lol

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, you’re completely right, I was more going for not impossible, but it’s even more luck than I realised