Can the market average be beat in the long term by retail traders?

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    Can anyone point me to a thread that can give me some educated insight on whether technical analysis has any real merit? I'm new to all of this and I've read so much about retail traders not being able to beat the market average in the long haul.. Especially day traders and what not. Any advice is appreciated.
 
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