Summary
- The 7 largest S&P 500 stocks are essentially a market of their own, and much of the market themselves. Investors should consider the implications of that, as they are significant.
- So much of equity investing today is based on the “passive bid” which piles money into S&P 500 funds, no matter what. But if and when that reverses, watch out.
- That makes tracking these Big 7 stocks a big part of understanding where the stock market is going.
- There’s a lot more to this thesis, and this article starts my discussion of it. The stock market just isn’t what it used to be.
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If you get jacked up to research and find single stocks that you think will rise in price over a long period of time, you might not get too much out of this article. Because while I
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