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  “Buy low, sell high” has long been known as the golden rule of investing. It sounds simple enough too! Yet, in practice, trying to outsmart the market consistently is a monumental challenge even for seasoned professionals. A new wave of thinking has taken shape in recent years: “what if the crowd and not the Wall Street elite can provide better stock market predictions ?” This is the new world of crowd-based investing . In it, everyday individuals pool their insights, intuition and data analysis to forecast financial trends. Platforms like HedgeCo have blurred the lines between predictions, trading and collective intelligence. This has been possible through gamification and decentralised financial speculation. Let us look at how this shift is happening and whether the crowd really can beat the market. We will also explore what this shift means for the future of investing. The Rise of Crowd Wisdom in Financial Forecasting Stock market forecasting has for long been dominated by ins...