In case after case the proper picking of markets would have resulted in your losing half your assets because you’d picked the wrong stocks. If you rely on the market to drag your stock along, then you might as well take the bus to Atlantic City and bet on red or black. If you wake up in the morning and think to yourself, “I’m going to buy stocks because I think the market is going up this year,” then you ought to pull the phone out of the wall and stay as far away as possible from the nearest broker. You’re relying on the market to bail you out, and chances are, it won’t.
