Post #1916 by rayvt on the Mechanical Investing board

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This cherry picking and survivorship bias.

The thing to ask is how many of those small, growing, profitable, and undiscovered microcaps went bust vs. how many went up 1000%.

I get these emails all the time. "We recommended these 3 stocks, XXX & YYY & ZZZ, which went up 1000%"
What they don't say is that they recommended 250 stocks in total.

Even TMF does this.

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