Hunting Moby Dick - whale watching in my personal account

People hate on ER but none of us are better skilled that top starmine ranked stock pickers unless we work in the same sector on the buyside.

As a sell side associate who covers 1 sector, would it be a bad idea to get my personal account investments outside of my sector of expertise from whale watching?

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