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Or just buy index decade after decade... this of course does not work if you attempt to beat the index or have timespan that is short.



The index has become a bubble in of itself. It's also not as diversified as you would think when Microsoft makes up 5-6% of the S&P and over 10% of Nasdaq.


So then purchase and overweight small and mid-caps and international indexes if you think that SPY is top heavy. You don't need to deviate from index investing just because a part of the index is outperforming the rest. Choose an allocation, stick to it, rebalance when you hit some threshold.


I don’t want to buy the index?


Other indexes, like the German DAX [1] have a hard cap at 10% per company.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAX


You don't have to stick to the S&P index. There are others that follow tech, or commodities, or the Canadian stock market, green energy or what have you. You can diversify yourself.


500 of the top American companies is good enough for me. (S&P500)




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