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mcguire on July 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Profitable and Legal Way to Game the Stock Marke...

"Tracking indexes is 'big', and has some brute simplicity about it, but eventually the market will eliminate that as a viable investment mechanism."

I would like to know how.

jdmichal on July 7, 2015 [–]

The strategy is so passive that it will simply always follow the index. So in order to break it, the indexes themselves would have to break. I suppose it's not impossible, but it is very improbable.

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