Topic: The fine line between market investment and sports gambling (Read 1425 times)

a key point we can learn from that is that studying and improving our skills will help better decision-making, be it in investing or in the way we gamble, studying is not only reading and learning about the world but also learning about ourselves and developing better emotion control, awareness.

don't you think?

Everything will depend n our own understanding, some already have beliefs that is too hard to analyzed since they wanted to believe that way. Investing can be a gamble in terms of risk that we don’t know when we will be able to be in profit but not in-terms of gambling that we stake our money for the sake that others will lose for us to win. In investing everyone can lose or win without opponents

but if someone invest in the 997th coin in the market thinking of becoming rich then that person is gambling no matter what they say,

Everything will depend n our own understanding, some already have beliefs that is too hard to analyzed since they wanted to believe that way. Investing can be a gamble in terms of risk that we don’t know when we will be able to be in profit but not in-terms of gambling that we stake our money for the sake that others will lose for us to win. In investing everyone can lose or win without opponents

That's a good comparison and representation of gambling and investing. There is this belief that when we invest, we're also gambling but the example that you've given for investing to those low ranking coins is totally a gamble.

The description of it differentiates from the people discussing it.

That's a good comparison and representation of gambling and investing. There is this belief that when we invest, we're also gambling but the example that you've given for investing to those low ranking coins is totally a gamble.

The description of it differentiates from the people discussing it.

but if someone invest in the 997th coin in the market thinking of becoming rich then that person is gambling no matter what they say,

but if someone invest in the 997th coin in the market thinking of becoming rich then that person is gambling no matter what they say,

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but if someone invest in the 997th coin in the market thinking of becoming rich then that person is gambling no matter what they say,

It makes sense and we see this in the market as well, the majority of the money is invested in bitcoin and if you invest in it with the intention to hold for the long term then you are not really gambling, but if someone invest in the 997th coin in the market thinking of becoming rich then that person is gambling no matter what they say, the confusion is also exacerbated because they both borrow terms from each other and this confuses people about both being the same when in fact they could not be more different.

This is a very interesting topic for me as I often wonder about the same.

I think the concepts have similarities but also are different in some ways. Why? Well, there are some high-risk investing practices and volatile stocks. In this case, I agree that investing is pretty much identical as betting or gambling. You give your money without having any idea what the outcome will be. Plus, as some of you said, the stock market is often an unfair place to be, and people with small budget can easily lose everything if they can't afford to wait out periods when the stock prices go down.

On the other hand, I'd say there are the stable stocks like Microsoft for example that generally move in a positive direction and give dividends. So, you get there in order to slowly grow your investment and possibly save money for retirement or whatever. I wouldn't place these investments in the same basket as betting and gambling. Sure, there's always the chance that something will go wrong. But still, I think these chances are small and if you read the news etc. you can probably react in time to cash in your profits.

So, my overall opinion is divided in half. If you buy new stocks and see what happens or invest in volatile stocks like Tesla that can easily grow by 50% but also drop by 60%, you are gambling in a way.

Also, to me the main difference is what money you use for investing. If you invest your retirement fund in stable investment opportunities hoping to slowly grow it, then I wouldn't say you're gambling. If you get some $5,000 you are ready to lose and just want to see what will happen by investing them in some new stock that can prove awesome or terrible, then you're gambling. You can easily decide to bet those $5,000 on a football match or place them on red on roulette and see what happens. If you are ready to lose the money, you are always gambling.

I don't know if this makes sense to you.