If you want to own individual stocks, you need to study as many aspects of the business as you can, read quarterly reports, and analyst opinions and stay abreast of company news. If you don't have the time or interest in doing so, then you should own passive index ETFs and skip individual shares altogether.
Sound familiar? Sound about right to you?
Wrong!!!!!!
You can buy a well-diversified collection of individual stocks and then literally ignore the companies entirely. And if you own individual stocks, maybe you SHOULD ignore them. The problem is that if