Topic: Between futures trading and gambling - page 12. (Read 1859 times)

In my understanding gambling and trading are two different things, even though both activities can make money, gambling and trading both have high risks, different from investing, in futures trading for a certain time we certainly have to be relatively able to make a profit from selling/buying crypto to increase our assets.

Bottom line: Futures trading and betting betting, to me high risk gambling, where you have to put your money on the line in a game you can't see and the certainty of, while trading you can still control market fluctuations or the movement of crypto assets that you want to buy and sell, so you can create profits.

In my understanding, on the other hand, there are types of bets that are almost as risky as trading, for example: sports betting, this is different from other bets, slots, poker, etc, sports betting at least you can still assess the odds of the strongest team and the game before placing a bet, my understanding is that it is almost the same where you can control your bets, like trading too you can see the crypto assets you want to buy.

You're compare apple with an orange, not apple to apple.

Futures trading is trading while gambling is gambling, futures trading depends on the market and your analysis while gambling is depends on your luck. This mean if you're a professional you can win in trading, but in gambling you can't because the result is depends on the other party, not you. All you can do is only guess, click and hope you're not wrong.

If we compare futures with gambling, I also believe that there will be more chances in gambling, but I would add spot trading to this list, because I achieved the best results in spot trading. Wouldn't like to consider futures, this is the most difficult direction for me, in gambling I play with little money, it can hardly be called a serious occupation, but spot trading brings me the best result and, accordingly, I work with significant finances for me, to get the best result.

Trading is never gambling but for the fact that you are taking a long term future trading which is more risky that can allows loosing your entire money still don't equate it with gambling, why they need to understand this is because one can still run a trade of low risk whereby you don't loose your entire money when you go short, that is why trading is of different types depending on the choice unlike gambling that you definitely have to either win or loose and you're left with no other choice.

Logically right, there are more traders who are willing to take the big risk to get a quick outcome, they are willing to place their investment the way like they are gambling with opportunities I think the lust for making money in a short period drives traders to take this route and wait if what they've projected will materialize and earn them decent benefits.

It's your judgment that matters here, if you don't do your research then it will turn to a gambling type of trade, but if you pay attention with all the information and all the factor that affects the market, your assessment gives you higher edge to make money.

Many people I know call both of them gambling. I think futures is pretty harder than gambling cause cost of not being right is very high. In gambling I perfectly know how much I am going to lose at maximum. In futures I cannot. Well obviously you may suggest me to apply stop-loss limits so I can know if I lose a trade or not. But why would I trade to lose? That's why I pick gambling over futures. Futures is the best way for high profits indeed but hard.

I have seen many people compare and contrast trading and gambling. We have had that discussion over and over again on this forum but reading through here I am glad it is coming from another angle. I tell you truth some days I just gamble to win. I wan to win so bad that it requires some real self discipline to log off. Some other days, I just want to have fun and gambling comes to my rescue.

I am very cautious about trading despite the warming of both of them being that you should use spare money. I think what I consider is which comes with a higher risks and which comes with a lot of stress. I cannot trade for fun. It is like a full-time job. It is not entertainment. For no matter how much I stand to gain from futures trading, I will do the one with less risk.

Boring indeed, I also prefer playing in casino where I can feel that awesome adrenaline rush in my body when I actually wona bet. The joy derive from casino makes it totally different from future trading and since the two of them are both risky, I prefer the one that will make me feel happy when doing it, I don't know but I think casino games will certainly be more fun other than future trading.

It is true that futures trading can in theory provide you with higher profits than spot trading, but how  many people actually are able to get those results? And their numbers should be even lower than spot trading, this makes futures trading to be incredibly risky in my opinion and most traders would do better if they avoid it, still the smell of money is incredibly strong and most people are unable to resist its allure and this is why futures trading is so popular in this market.

As for easier I don't know. It seems to me that even futures trading must be more difficult and stressful because I don't think people do futures trading for entertainment (and in the process see if they make any money) it's more like a job, like part-time.

The difference I think is that there is no negative mathematical expectancy, like in the casino, but making money consistently in futures trading is within the reach of very few and those who fall by the wayside can get very badly scalded.

Gambling is not an option for me; it has never been and will never be my thing. Gambling and future transactions are not the same thing, even if both involve a certain amount of luck. Gambling necessitates the availability of games as well as statistics in order to record successful results. While trading deals with fundamentals and technical analysis, understanding them at one's fingers allows one to predict market seasons. I prefer futures trading to spot trading since it provides more earnings while also generating losses if not traded intelligently. 

Both possess risks. In gambling, you risk your fund for entertainment. A profit is just a plus points and a type of reward, this is if you are gambling because you just want to have fun or pass time. But if you are gambling just to earn profit, it will be much riskier since you are expecting something in return and you will allocate a bigger fund for playing. Of course, if you want to profit, you have to have a capital. The higher the fund you can spend in gambling, the higher the chances of you winning because you can play more games with more money. However, it doesn't really guarantee that you will bring home a huge money since the overall results is still mainly based on your skills, knowledge, and luck.

When it comes to future trading, it also possess a risk, but this one is mainly focused on building your portfolio and making money. You won't be in futures trading if you'll just play and have fun. The moment you enter it, you have a goal in mind which is to make money. If your goal is to be financially stable, you have higher chance of attaining so by futures trading. Although be reminded that this way requires you to have vast knowledge, strategies, and techniques. You need to know how to analyze the market flow and not just go by your gut feeling. Overall, it will depend on which risk you want to take.

So basically, we must keep learning to increase our knowledge to find ways or strategies to win gambling even though we also have to realize that luck determines our win. But in trading, as long as we can increase our knowledge and put it into practice, I think our profit potential can be greater than in gambling. Even though we can also experience losses from trades, at least we have the opportunity to recover those losses from other trades.

So as long as we can manage the use of money for gambling or trading, I think we will be fine and can enjoy it, especially in gambling. And in trading, we also look for and find the right coins that can help us to make a profit.

Never ending try, by experienced you'll be able to grasp more ideas on how to place your position or your bet, it's more on how you will focus and how you will find or locate all the possible resources that may help you to increase your knowledge. It's more on how to determine you are and how you will pick learnings from all your experiences and collect it to form a better plan and strategy that may help you to anticipate in a much better way.

It's your money that you are using and you are the pilot of your journey. The more you understand to possible outcome, the more careful you are in how to play with your money.

Gambling mostly have to do with luck, and as such, I would say it's less risky then futures trading, but it's definitely not as difficult as futures trading which requires skills and good knowledge of the market.

The truth is, anyone who have tried this two and is not as skillful and knowledgeable about the crypto market, will choose gambling over futures trading, futures trading is not as easy as many think, in futures trading, you have to research, carry out several market analysis, and also spend several hours just watching charts and reading the news, this are things that are not so in gambling, depending on the game the gambler chose to play, for example, sports betting does require research and time watching games and all that, but this research is not as deep and time consuming like it is with doing futures trading.

In addition to reasonable capital, futures trading also requires expertise in reading the market, technical analysis so that it doesn't just seem like guessing at prices. In fact it will be the same as gambling if you do not have the knowledge of how to trade futures. besides that, using leverage will be a benchmark, don't use too much leverage with big bets, it's the same as choosing the highest risk of losing everything. Trading and gambling are certainly different and if I had to choose I would choose trading and gambling only as an entertainment option.

Better make yourself that be able to be doing well on spot trading first before you would be venturing or would really be touching up futures because this is something that would really be that so risky to deal with if

you dont have that sufficient experience and knowledge into it.Some do say that futures is simply gambling but on a trading form. Its true that lots had been liquidated but we know that there are one who do really
make profits in the other side. We know that there's only two paths on which the price would be able to go which is going up or down. If you are really that good when it comes to technicals and fundamentals
then you could really make use of these things to be your advantage on which it would really be just that normal that you would experience losses which its inevitable.

At the end of the day, it depends on the person which one he will venture into, and put his hard-earned money into. But for me, if I have the time and resources, I will study futures, as the chance of getting your profits is better. Gambling will always be gambling. Treat this as a losing activity because it is.
But when you explore futures, you should know that this is a high risk investment, better learn the market well, or else get liquidated fast.

Lets categorize up on things;

Entertainment
• Luck based (more risky)
• Strategic based (less risky)

Investment/Job/Income
•Futures (more risky)
•Spot (less risky)

But in overall these things are risky, theres only a matter of level of risk in between because we know that there are really indeed things which factors cant really be changed up.
On the time that you would really be dealing up with things then its impossible that you cant really make out some comparison. Now that we are talking about futures
and gambling is similar? In the sense its yes but on how its been done then its different. We know futures that we could really make out some analysis too
on which it do really give the odds on making profits higher than on totally making some random move.

Hehe... How does these even rhyme together?...
Gambling could possibly replicate few bucks in two measures and that's quite enticing!! Addiction sometimes makes the whole strain impossible to refrain. Secondly,anyone that's got a huge interest in games and soccer wouldn't wanna trade, cus it's impossible to trade games, is it?..
Your comparison is lame, honestly!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰