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Ask a Fool: Why Should Amateurs Buy Individual Stocks?

Can amateur investors beat the market on their own by picking individual stocks? Absolutely.

By Jason Moser – Sep 21, 2013 at 9:30AM EST

In this edition of The Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Motley Fool One analyst Jason Moser takes a question from a Fool reader, who asks, "Why should amateurs buy individual stocks when the market is mainly driven by institutional investors? Shouldn't we just buy mutual funds?"

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Jason Moser
Jason Moser is a Senior Investment Analyst and Lead Advisor at The Motley Fool, and he works on the Trends and Quantum Leap premium investing services. Jason has been with the company since 2010, and he covers payments, fintech, quantum computing, cloud computing, and tech stocks. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Wofford College.
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