From Motley Fool:
2015 has been a stock picker’s market.
I realize that sounds like a bizarre thing to say about a stock market that is only up 0.9% on a price basis year to date. But the fact is that owning the “right stocks” — or not owning the wrong ones — has been the key to generating meaningful returns this year.
Although the S&P 500 is flirting around break-even, the individual stocks that make up the index have been a lot more directional.