Taken together, some 2, 000 stocks recommended on a popular television show over the course of the past 12 years by the show' s guests, most of whom are successful consultants for multibillion-dollar stock portfolios, performed less successfully than the market as a whole for this 12-year period
So clearly, no one should ever follow any recommendations by these so-called experts
Performance of the stocks recommended on the television show was measured independently by a number of analysts, and the results of all the measurements concurred.