Topic: Maybe future trade is gambling - page 3. (Read 932 times)

Futures trading looks attractive until the trader opens a position, when an inexperienced trader opens a position and only then realizes how dangerous futures trading is. I know someone who lost all his funds in futures trading, even now he is heavily in debt. Futures trading is a highly experienced trader's place, there is no place for inexperienced traders except to lose funds. Small inexperienced traders tend to lose in futures trading because they take high leverage, and are not aware of proper money management.

Basically, trading is just like that we are only guessing what could happen in the market, in any market but these guesses should be backed up with some historical movement although it doesn't always happen. One bad or great news can practically change in seconds. If you're new, just don't think that you learn everything overnight, it will kill you (not literally)

Some people may find futures trading challenging given the risk it contains but let people who don't know it learn their lesson by going into it.

Many people trade futures without having any knowledge because they think futures trading only requires guessing up or down and looks quite simple. But when they always lose, they will understand that futures trading requires good trading skills to analyze and manage when trading. whatever money is used for futures trading will be lost if one is not alert and does not have any plan.

Since the market can be very different to analyse and determine what will happen in the market in the future. We need to seat well and learn how to trade the future market very well. Trading is not something we can just enter and start trading without having a full understanding of the market. The spot market and made it look like the Crypto trading is very easy and anyone can enter the market and trade without full understanding of the market and what could happen at anytime.

Of course it's stupid of him because that's what happens when you trade without understanding X. Of course, if you don't have enough knowledge about Bitcoin, it's not right for him to trade with such big ricks just from watching it on YouTube. Because when I trade Bitcoin I must acquire enough knowledge about Bitcoin without having enough idea if I invest all my money in Bitcoin I will surely lose my money through it. Of course I feel bad for him. It must be very painful for him to have to sell his grandmother's land and pay off the debt after losing it by trading at the wrong time.

Nope, futures trading is not gambling. What you are saying is totally dangerous because he entered futures trading with zero knowledge, yet he tried to put his capital at risk here. Why does he think that futures trading is like gambling in that you can make a profit just by guessing?

You know and we both know that futures trading is not like that, because if we only have a deep idea and knowledge of futures trading, the chances of risk are low compared to those who have no idea here.

for those new future traders, maybe we can judge it like that. because they don't master trading techniques and strategies that can increase their chances of trading success. New traders may just look at the charts and guess.
but it will be different for traders who are already professionals. Even though the predictions made cannot be 100% correct and profitable, in future trading they know how to reduce the risk of loss. and we can use that in future trading.
whereas gambling is just betting on your luck. the result is win or lose.
gambling and trading are different things.

You don't say what you do not know, trading and gambling are not the same thing unless you want to gamble with your own trading or you are just inexperienced, that's it. You just don't say that trading is gambling, just like saying business is gambling, it only depends on whether or not you want to gamble with your own business as there will always be professionals in the field of that business who know what to do and manage their businesses well without unnecessary taking chances (gamble).

And if you must know, the aspect of the financial market and asset trading that is gambling-related is Options trading, and in some places, they call it Binary Options. Yes, in that, you can choose between your Call and Put options and you will gamble the direction chosen against a specific time. That is specifically gambling, because if you predict wrongly, you lose and all of your money is won by the dealer, or should I call it the House this time?

But in trading, as the case may be, you can just lose all your money at once and immediately at a specific time on a single trade and you have the option to opt out of the market if you sense danger unlike how it is happening of gambling platforms, once you place a bet, you have committed the money and has agreed to win or lose.

Everything that lies in the future is certainly gambling. Most particularly for futures trading where trading made in the future most likely become unpredictable, which means you don’t hold fixed outcome when you trade on it. Also, engaging in futures trading for non-pros or non-professionals in trading will highly end up like gambling. For safer option, avoid futures trading when you think you are not that capable and skillful enough.

Future trade and gambling are both risky but they are different, future trading is more risky than regular trading. Maybe you're just confused because they're really the same, especially with bigger leverage, the bigger the leverage, the bigger the risk.

yes, to get a edge, the trader need to learn many things about the specific financial instrument.
Like in stocks, the trader needs to analyze overall market trends, company's performance, financial indicators, and relevant news to make right decisions.
Also, in crypto and commodities or any other financial instrument, a thorough understanding of market dynamics, technological developments, and global economic factors is essential for profitable trading.
So it should not be considered as gambling, but if the trader is just speculating by seeing the price movements on charts and doing nothing and taking trades then he is gambling.

Does it mean that there is no difference in risky crypto investment with high returns can be considered gambling?
Then investing in low-risk gold is not gambling?

I would not consider futures trading as gambling especially if you say the luck factor of price prediction, still it is not a tool in analyzing prices they need several things to analyze the market or a coin that is being traded then the chances of profit will be greater.

If for example beginners do futures trading, then they do not understand then they can consider this future as gambling.

I don’t agree with you mate completely. Where there is high risk and high return, it can be considered as gambling. In futures, similar concept is used where you need to trade and make profit in each and everyday. Yes knowledge is also important, but market and luck also plays an important factor also. You need to be lucky to do the correct market predictions and make profits from it. So yes in short futures can be considered as gambling only.

At what particular age? most of the children who engage early in bitcoin without their own money is quite risky because once they earn a good amount of profit sure they will think that the crypto is a haven to create more money and become an instant millionaire, even me I didn't have those number of money and imagine makes use those to have an investment and get all burn those assets, I don't sure but seems like he made into a one pot those investments and get liquidated due to market volatility. Better if he makes and build his money first so the people around him will not be burdened again with their mistakes. Futures trading is not a gambling if you know already the background and how to execute properly the trend of the market, still there's a risk but you are not blank to the outcome of the market.

the real gambling is option trading. there is just guessing the price goes down or the price goes up. and if the guess is wrong all the funds that are paired, aka at stake, are exhausted, aka there is no remainder at all. well that's really called gambling. while in futures it's not like that there is SL there is TP and if the wrong direction does not immediately run out of funds owned.
example binary option, iq option and more. and option trading license use gambling license

I like your answer, gambling have nothing to do with trading or rather future trading but basically all are risky. However, future trading is very risky because it might get to the date of agreement and you found out that the price of the commodity you wish to buy have increased therefore you may still need to pay extra amount regardless of the agreement you both had earlier so as days goes by that's how the price of goods and commodity increases so reaching and agreement on buying a commodity at a current price in the future may not really be ascertained.

Futures trading or any trading which can people do online is gambling for those who doesn't understand how to trade and just speculate and trade without analysing anything and seeing the charts. And after losing the trade we know what happens they tend to take more risk to regain that lost amount same as gambling. But if the person learned about trading and know to stop when he is wrong. And if he is wrong most of the time then he should learn more about that. If someone knew about this and what your brother is doing then they should had stopped him.

Futures trading a gamble? No I really don't think so, I feel that it's a craft that is more risky, which you must master before venturing into it. futures trading is more rewarding to those that knows the craft while gambling is mainly base on luck, so they aren't the same.

Many will percept the trading as a gambling because of its definition "Gambling is a risky action wanting for a desired result" both of these requires money to do so but not necessarily mean that both are in the same category, that's why we have a term for it. Although this is in, the nature of money similar, we can argue that these things required different skills to have and not just with luck.  

Yes it is. Leverage is not designed only for the traders to make more profitable, it gives more risky positions on both end. Traders should know how to leverage their trade especially when they are more than 50% see how the market will behave for a couple or days, weeks or months getting multipliers and turning to higher profits. Can we call that a gamble? given the risky side of it? No, simply because they aren't basing it on luck.

For professional traders, futures trading is a big opportunity to gain instant wealth but for beginners, it requires specific knowledge and skills first, hence beginners when they tend to do futures trade, they mostly end up gambling knowing they have less or no experiences in futures trading.

Trading with high leverage will add more risks but the rewards are also worth the trades that’s why a lot of traders suicide to do futures trading but still end up losing because they lack the skills and experiences to succeed.