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When fishing it is always good to know the difference between a Carp and a Trout. Carp feed off the bottom, Trout eat fresh meat and there's the difference. Carp are ponderous and dirty, Trout are fast and fit.  Today we break the top ASX stocks into Carp and Trout and in so doing explain relative charts which more easily identify the outperformers from the underperformers. In so doing we identify some consistently good long-term stocks and some consistently underperforming stocks. Stocks that some fund managers must hold and stocks that some fund managers wish they'd never heard of.