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Company performance doesnt follow a uniform distribution where each company is as likely to overperform as any other. Selling companies that are run well because their stock went up is a great way to miss out on a lot of money.
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If you're reliably beating the market over a long time horizon by picking specific stocks, you're a billionaire, or soon to be.
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This is a non sequitur. We are talking about the standard weight s&p 500 vs an equal weight s&p500
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Picking an equal weight fund is closer to picking specific stocks than investing in the S&P500 imo
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