To be clear to the three instant downvoters, I'm saying parent is deluded and is going to lose repeatedly, not that active investing is a losing proposition in general:
> 2) Momentum driven companies where tons of liquidity is flowing to (TSLA etc)
Put the money in the money thing! Yea! Parent is the portrait of sad hype-driven retail investor.
Careful on the investment lectures.
If that was true everyone would be doing it, and then the advantage would go away.
In short: if you think there's a "tried-and-tested strategy" that outperforms over anything but the short-term, then you either reject the efficient markets hypothesis--which would be pretty remarkable--or you don't understand it.
Someone is.
Realize that part of active investing is you have to beat the returns of VTI + your current job / biz income.