I would take the opposite side of the OP's belief Case in point, probably 98 percent of daytraders do not beat the S And P.. Hand them 100k and 30 years later, they would be lucky to have 1 million dollars...
I agree. As an untrained retail, I looked at the price charts, long term trends, in years are clear. Trends in day or minute by minute, are more or less random and most retails don't have the ability to predict.