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They're not really zero man. Brokers have a number of tricks in order to make hidden fees off of your orders- for example, selling them to HFTs that then 'front run' your order (which can be illegal under some circumstances). So you're just paying more in the bid/ask spread, that's how they make their commissions these days. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...controversial-bargain-with-high-speed-traders
Any decent index fund contains hundreds of individual equities, not just 20. There are all kinds of issues with ETFs (they're partly made up of derivatives and so only suitable for very short-term trading- within a week they start to diverge far from the actual equity in question).
You. Can't. Beat. The. Market. Dude. Yes what they're doing is different all right lol. They're losing money while I'm making money
Tell me what ETFs you own. I want to see what great gains you made on them. VOO is barely green the last 365 days. I am up 40%.
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