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The Importance of Stock Picking, Illustrated in Oil

Does anybody really need to be told that some stocks in an industry/sector will under perform? I agree with what you are saying CrossProfit, I just don't get the article, as it was titled. When the title of an article is "The importance of Stock Picking", it implies that actively picking individual issues is somehow better than buying ETFs, indexing, whatever. Since most readers of Seeking Alpha are already convinced of the importance of picking stocks, who is this article trying to educate?