Discussion is never argument.
Here is why i go the route I do... the 100 other stocks in the fun offer me some risk mitigation , the fund allows me to "Set it and forget it" and never look at it..
The individual stock Drips allow me to trickle in directly thereby managing the total cost whilst providing me the ability to Punch out of the individual stock at any time and buy it back at any time.
Its that flexibility and risk limiting factor that for me supports the logic of owning an SP INDEX FUND and some of the same stocks in that INDEX individually
Think of this, I am applying both the "Lazy portfolio" Approach and the active trading approach at the same time... taking the benefits of each.
