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Building wealth over time for investing somehow applies to trading as well, but it would differ at least from the timeframe that the profit was made. It would just be between long and short term.
Trading: "Generate returns by buying and selling securities"
Investing: "Reinvest profits and dividends by purchasing additional amounts of the underlying security"
Can anyone explain to me how this is not the same?
Basically, everything is an investment, you have some money and you wish to make more money (profit) over time! Time here is not important as your starting capital and your goals, and exactly that is the place anyone should start from! You need to know how much you have, how much money you can risk... and you need to have some goal! Depending on these two you will be able to know how much risk you are facing.
I will go even further and say that investing=gambling! If there's a risk of losing and the possibility of winning its gambling, this is like some definition!