Every investor wants to find the next big thing. Unfortunately, this is almost certainly harder than it appears.
Unless you have a crystal ball, finding the next hot stock is almost impossible. One issue investors have to contend with is the fact that the next big thing is often hidden away first.
We can look at companies like Apple and Amazon today and say they would have been a good investment in the early 2000s, but that's with the benefit of hindsight.
At the turn of the millennium, these investments were just as evident as thousands of...

