Don't necessarily agree - as most funds out there are designed to eat commission/fees etc. on an ongoing-basis and to average say about 5% return per year if your lucky - whereas good stock picks may give you multi-bagger triple digit returns over time (but carries a much higher risk/reward probability of course).
The key is to research, research and research more and pick early mover potential growth stocks in the right sector's etc. E.G. Look at the recent run across most lithium stocks booming as most of them have multi-bagged
Personally, I like to focus on 52 week high trending stocks (as most are in a developed, strong bullish uptrend etc.) so it puts the odds in your favor of these ones continuing higher at least in the short term imo (but please dyor as not intended as specific trading/investment advice).
All the best in your trading endeavours,
Cheers tela
P.S. Some recent examples I've bought in on were NMT, IFN, EMC, AVG and now FOD (as of last friday)......... dyor