Even with some considerable drag from AAPL, the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, the broad averages chugged effortlessly higher on Thursday, extending their seldomly rebuked winning streak to yet another record high. Apple shares fell 1.5%, but this loss was more than offset by lunatic-powered rallies in AMZN, BA and NFLX.  Respectively, they rose 1.5%, 2.6% and 3.1%. It was all in a day’s work for these high-fliers, although it is surely less work than it might have seemed, given that there are no aggressive institutional sellers in any of these stocks. If you want’ em, you’ll have to pay up!  Shhhhh. That is the bull market’s dirty secret. No question, the index-fund geniuses on Wall Street have a great thing going for them compared to those who actually work for a living. If AMZN, BA and NFLX were seed crops, farmer Brown would sleep till noon every day, then spend his afternoons whittling balsa tractors, tying flies and fishing for steelhead. Episodes of Justified, Banshee and Game of Thrones would follow leisurely, two-hour dinners. At the end of the year, he would call his broker to learn that he’d cleared more than a million dollars — after taxes. Has any farmer who ever lived been gifted with a nine-year run of good luck?