Hi Bros! I am 30 years old and recently got into investing. So I work as an engineer and have a busy job but I started to follow news related to finance, valuations of some comapnies etc and its all really interesting stuff.
What I wanted to know was for someone like me is investing in index fund the best thing to do or would gaining more knowledge in investing really help me get better returns?
The general consensus seems to be that one should just invest in S&P 500 and chill especially for a begineer because choosing the right company/ market direction is really hard (I also know this from experience because I tried my hand in options and was kindof breakeven in the long term)
So if I invest some time to educate myself in investing/trading would it really be financially benefitial for me? Because I can only spend limited amount of time to get better at investing.
I also heard from some valuations experts that you are supposed to invest \~80-90% in index funds and try to use remaining money to invest in individual stocks and use that as a learning tool.
I guess I am looking for some real examples of people who educated themselves and made some good calls while investing....