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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