Consider for a moment what the greatest investor in history has averaged for decades. Warren Buffet has averaged around 20%. This 20% has made him the greatest of all time. A fund manager, Peter Lynch, has also averaged a number around 20%. About 75% of all fund managers can not beat the market which can be tied by simply buying into an index fund. A superstar fund manager with many researchers on the payroll is considered a genius if they can beat the market by any amount.

With this in mind, what can an average investor do to beat these superstars? Find and use better research. I have found the newspaper Investors Business Daily (IBD) to be a supreme research tool for stock investing. In the last ten years I have learned a great deal from IBD and from William O