Topic: Difference of Trading and Investing? - page 53. (Read 29492 times)

I kept thinking "all dogs are animals, but not all animals are dogs" while I was typing.  it gets confusing for people out there that are just coming into things.  I watch a lot of guys and girls hit the floor here and get massively excited that they bought a coin at 1 sat for a client and now it is 100 sat, only to be completely floored when the investment was so small that the trade fees eat it up, or the client calling and trying to figure why they cannot sell the coin they bought last week.....well, no one is buying that coin...lol.  the best one is when a person hits the website, gets a little info and makes a small profit...so small that they cannot withdraw it from the exchange. 

does anyone have a number for the number of new coins released per day these days?  I mean released and given at least some effort at promotion.  I cannot imagine a new person, not even fully understanding bitcoin itself trying to grasp the massive number of currently traded coins, plus the new coins hitting the market. 

This is important part, and answer on OP`s question in headline. This is same topic like what is the difference between investing and gambling, we can apply same answer here, gambling is a form of investing. Giving money and waiting for profit is investing, no matter in what you decide to invest end of story.

I think that trading is a less risky business. In trade you always have on hand a product that has a residual value, and when investing you can stay with shares that are worth nothing.

trading is a form of investing.....among other forms.
that statement is 100% when it comes to something like the "stock market" and mostly true for the crypto market.

the main difference here is that many people are forced to "trade" to get their bitcoins or other coins to a point where they can spend them.  this type of fast and hard trading is usually a loss for the trader, but they think of that as money paid to get their FIAT from crypto.

basically investing is the trade of two or more valued mechanisms with the hope of increasing the overall value.  many versions of long term trading might only use two trades or three in the lifetime of the investment, but there is still trading there.  an example would be the investor that bought 1 BTC at $250 a little over a year back and now sells at $1000.  only two trades were made, the investment is more of a "savings bond" kind of thing or the equivalent of buying Walmart or Microsoft stock, but it involves trading. 

there is also fast trading, new market trading, day to day trades, botting and many other ways to do it. 

personally I find that the purest form of "investing" is the purchase of ICO in crypto or IPO in the stock world.  I mean buying these because of a belief in the concept and/or person, versus running the trends.  As an example of buying into an ICO for u-pure reasons, I bought and mined up many of the "poke coin" last year, I bought them because they wear at the perfect time to hit the growing poke go trend. I spent less than a dollar to mine more than 100,000 of them and made $80 in a day, not a huge windfall, but a nice example of the right time/right place investment. 

As a purer investment, I have put a good amount of funds into Burstcoin.  I simply like the POC concept and the way that the coin has been handled by the devs.  I like the simplicity of the poc reward system, the plotting and the mining.  I actually feel the words plot and mine are perfectly appropriate for the way the system works, as opposed to mining other coins.  I am not here to sell the coin, but to say that I "invested" in that coin.  I have given my money to another based upon my belief that they have a good idea and I want to help that happen.  From the stock market, the word "stock" literally came from a long time back and meant to purchase "stock" for a new store owner because you believed they could make a profit or to "stock" a farmer with the needed supplies to make it happen.  I invest for profit, I invest to show support of a business or concept, I invest because I love it.  I want to start an investment platform for young people in high school who have a good future ahead, giving them the fundage to do college or whatever it takes, funding a person because you believe in them.  That type of thing is coming out through crowd funding, but I would like to see it organized and centered on one site or business.

But it more on the analyzation method, Both things end up with the ROI to be the main goal.

The trading needs a lot of the analyzation to get the right answer and high accuracy when will the market goes.

To get best analyzation and it needs good skill by the analyser itself.

For me trading is better as I cannot be always be dependent on others to make profits and if it fails then I will regretting on my decision so it would be good to have control of funds in our own hands and try to take decision according to the situation around.

if you do not want your money in the hands of others you can try trading. because the investment is essentially a trust investment you choose. if you buy the stock then make sure the company is strong and potential

to me i also think that both are the same think and there is no such a big difference between the two. i think the money we invest in a specific item is called trading and that is the simple definition of trading and investment.

In fact, the difference between trade and investment is huge. In the trade, you count on your hand, and when investing you trust your money to strangers. I think that investment is more risky.

Yes and I think even trading is one kind of investment as you are putting your money into it hoping to get some profits so I don't see much difference between trading and investing but one thing is common in both of them and that is there is always a risk of loosing money if you invest at a wrong place.

I think that these are completely different activities. And they can not even be compared. They have only one thing in common - the goal of getting money and multiplying capital

Trading in terms of bitcoin or cyrptocurrency, it is a platform exchange where everybody is free to buy and sell in which altcoin or bitcoin you are going to trade in and it can also considered as a form of investment too. Because once you buy any coins in the exchange its called an assets already, while Investment is very broad, if I'm going to elaborate it you can do it for any forms of opportunities such as Traditional business, Direct selling, Networking, Franchising, Micro-finance, Insurance, and trading investment.

Lets take Disney as an example. An investor will think, this company has been around for generations and kids are always going to watch cartoons. So this company isn't going anywhere. If I buy the stock now, I will reap benefits of all the Marvel and Star Wars movies to come. (Note: Assessing fundamentals, and thorough analysis is required here)

A trader will think, the new Avenger movie is coming up, its best I buy the stock now and sell it after the first 10 days of the movie. Since at that point the movie will be buzzing towards the next highest grosser. So I would have made a good profit by then, and I don't really need to care/think about what happens to Disney after.

It really comes in the words obviously. Trading is a sort of short term profit taking (Or Loss Taking) while Investing is on the long term profit taking. Both have major differences also as Trading requires heavily on Technical Analysis while Investing requires a lot of Fundamental Analysis. So in short they require a different field to have a success in creating a money with it.

Trading is an exchange of product commonly be seen from country to country so that certain product can became popular from one country to another it is also use in some deals to get an better understanding and a certain things while investing is putting one's capital or money to a certain business that might boost or might become popular investing also is one way of making your money grow however in some cases there are risk ti take because tgere were times what you put into might not comeback as you expected.

Trading in its core is basically investing as well however investing is not all the times trading because you can do something with your money when you invest and it's not exclusively for trading only. Also, trading requires more effort compared to investment since in investing you are only buying something and expecting that it will return more value over time however in trading you would need to keep up with the pace of the markets as well as the price changes.

As for me, then you need to trade with even more knowledge than just investing. Trade requires attention and more time, but without luck this type of earnings is also not very lucky.

Investing and trading are certainly different

Claiming that investing is sort of passive income seems to be an obvious overstretch here (unless you "invest" in your deposit account in a bank, of course). Is Warren Buffett a "passive" investor? But that's not my point. More specifically, the things you enumerated (namely, special skills, obtaining more knowledge, improving techniques) are equally applicable to investing as well in absolutely the same degree. For example, by improving and expanding your knowledge you will be able to make more profitable investments just like that will help you with trading

I think that they are different from each other. You need to trade to earn money while investing bring passive income daily, monthly or annually to your pocket. And moreover, trading requires special skills and you can learn and obtain more knowledge in this field. You can increase your techniques and abilities to increase the profit. Investing only need you to be wise

By your definition though, they're similar to eah other. I think the skill you need for trading also applies to investing. It just takes longer for your investments to receive roi but in a way they're the same.