Ask a young Wall Street pro about the New York Stock Exchange Index and they may tell you they’re familiar with it, but that it’s no longer relevant. After all, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is what "everyone" follows. "Everyone" wants to beat it and any money manager that can't beat the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.64% in a particular year is a big loser ... right? And even if the S&P 500 isn't all you look at, you need to look no further than the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.40% to see how the "market" is doing, right? After all, most of the cool kids — stocks — hang out on the Nasdaq. That's where the hot tech IPOs ... (full story)