Is there a difference between buying shares in the stock exchange and gambling?

[Eastwind]

Both of them rely on skill and luck, we also can analyze condition & think about strategy about how to make profit.
So, i think there aren't any major difference between stocks trading & gambling. The only difference is stock tradings is 100% legal, while gambling isn't legal.

Some gambling such as poker relies more on skill as you bet against other players. Dice is mainly lucky based.

[roadbits]

Both of them rely on skill and luck, we also can analyze condition & think about strategy about how to make profit.
So, i think there aren't any major difference between stocks trading & gambling. The only difference is stock tradings is 100% legal, while gambling isn't legal.

It looks like you never invested money in stock market but only put money on gambling so you didn't understood the power of buying stocks at correct price and hold for long time. You can find may investors made a very good money from stock markets but in gambling very few or almost no one make money over the time. There is a lot of difference between these two but only how you invest in stock market is matters.

[bank of bits]

Both of them rely on skill and luck, we also can analyze condition & think about strategy about how to make profit.
So, i think there aren't any major difference between stocks trading & gambling. The only difference is stock tradings is 100% legal, while gambling isn't legal.

it looks like if you buy shares need special skills and knowledge compared with gambling,
why do you say it's illegal gambling? whereas in some countries, legalized gambling

[frank26]

There is one thing common in both is that when you start loosing then you will suddenly losses all the money.In terms of playing both there is vast difference between the two.

[BTCevo]

Both of them rely on skill and luck, we also can analyze condition & think about strategy about how to make profit.
So, i think there aren't any major difference between stocks trading & gambling. The only difference is stock tradings is 100% legal, while gambling isn't legal.

Some gambling such as poker relies more on skill as you bet against other players. Dice is mainly lucky based.

But poker need luck to for your own card and on the table. Sometimes you hold Ace pair you will lose to three's or something higher than that. Every gambling game sure need some luck to play, there are no game that depends more on skill

[Eastwind]

Both of them rely on skill and luck, we also can analyze condition & think about strategy about how to make profit.
So, i think there aren't any major difference between stocks trading & gambling. The only difference is stock tradings is 100% legal, while gambling isn't legal.

Some gambling such as poker relies more on skill as you bet against other players. Dice is mainly lucky based.

But poker need luck to for your own card and on the table. Sometimes you hold Ace pair you will lose to three's or something higher than that. Every gambling game sure need some luck to play, there are no game that depends more on skill

It is all relative speaking. I mean luckiness play a less role in poker game than in dice game.

You need good luck in poker to get better cards. Some times, even if you have bad cards, you can still win with some techniques.

[chennan]

IMO, investing in cryptos right now is like playing stocks... it's just got more volatility to it and will give you the potential huge ROI if you pick a right moment to buy some.  I prefer not to think of it like that, because I see stuff like bitcoin to be actually useful as a currency rather than stock... but with the price increases as of right now, it's looking to resemble that.

[Xenoph0bia]

Yes, there is huge difference between buying shares and gambling. In gambling you just have to depend on your luck and there are maximum chances of loosing the money and less chances of winning the money. On other hand you can buy the share after doing some research and checking the fundamentals of that company to minimize the loss and to make some profit.

[darkangel11]

Yes, there is huge difference between buying shares and gambling. In gambling you just have to depend on your luck and there are maximum chances of loosing the money and less chances of winning the money. On other hand you can buy the share after doing some research and checking the fundamentals of that company to minimize the loss and to make some profit.

That's true only when you know the shares aren't being manipulated. If you invest in penny stocks or bitcoin startups you can be sure there's somebody pulling the strings.

[bitart]

There's a big difference! With gambling, in many ways we can say that you are just playing with luck while if you invest in stockshares you carefully study the market and make the best decision on which share you should invest. In this case it doesn't luck has nothing to do it, but rather have the availability to invest and wait for ROI.

It is true that you really need luck in gambling but in stockshare you will also need some luck, you can make a good decision just with study all the markets because sometimes people will also get some loss from stocks thats why you need a little bit luck to get some profit from it too. Both of them are same if you know how to control it

You need luck of course in connection with stock exchange as well. Just like last time when the VW emission scandal hit the price of the share. That time if you were lucky and you just sell your shares because of whatever reason before, you saved yourself from a huge loss.

[Aemon]

While I do agree playing the stock market has more skill than gambling.  To say it is 100% skill is just laughable.  I would put it around 30% skill 70% luck.  Still way better odds than actually going on gambling which is like 95% luck for the most part.

[FrueGreads]

Stock market keeps having those scandals and crashes etc, and in my opinion it's because it's jut like gambling.
They just play with the stocks trying to profit, and yes stocks reflect what is going on with the company and prime materials etc, but sometimes it's just pure manipulation, and that can be done in gambling to.

[roadbits]

While I do agree playing the stock market has more skill than gambling.  To say it is 100% skill is just laughable.  I would put it around 30% skill 70% luck.  Still way better odds than actually going on gambling which is like 95% luck for the most part.

I think instead of luck we can say if one do not know how the company or business working then you need to depend on luck but if any one knows the company working business model then more than 50% skills are required to buy the shares and less than 50% you can say need a luck because in this competitive world any think can happen suddenly.

[klf]

Yes, there is huge difference between buying shares and gambling. In gambling you just have to depend on your luck and there are maximum chances of loosing the money and less chances of winning the money. On other hand you can buy the share after doing some research and checking the fundamentals of that company to minimize the loss and to make some profit.

That's true only when you know the shares aren't being manipulated. If you invest in penny stocks or bitcoin startups you can be sure there's somebody pulling the strings.

Investing in penny stocks is like playing gambling so if your not sure about how the company works and what are their product and you also should know the back ground of company promoters. If any good reputable person behind the company then surely you can buy for good profits otherwise only luck is need to make a good profits from penny stocks.

[bitart]

Yes, there is huge difference between buying shares and gambling. In gambling you just have to depend on your luck and there are maximum chances of loosing the money and less chances of winning the money. On other hand you can buy the share after doing some research and checking the fundamentals of that company to minimize the loss and to make some profit.

That's true only when you know the shares aren't being manipulated. If you invest in penny stocks or bitcoin startups you can be sure there's somebody pulling the strings.

Investing in penny stocks is like playing gambling so if your not sure about how the company works and what are their product and you also should know the back ground of company promoters. If any good reputable person behind the company then surely you can buy for good profits otherwise only luck is need to make a good profits from penny stocks.

It's a commonly used technique also that someone buys a lot kind of penny stocks for cheap price, after a while 95% of them fails but the remaining 5% gives such a good profit that compensates the losses of the others.
This is also like gambling but seems to work for the big hedges.

[Aemon]

While I do agree playing the stock market has more skill than gambling.  To say it is 100% skill is just laughable.  I would put it around 30% skill 70% luck.  Still way better odds than actually going on gambling which is like 95% luck for the most part.

I think instead of luck we can say if one do not know how the company or business working then you need to depend on luck but if any one knows the company working business model then more than 50% skills are required to buy the shares and less than 50% you can say need a luck because in this competitive world any think can happen suddenly.

Even if you know how the company is working you still have no idea what will happen to the stock.  People have made great products with great customer service and have failed, it has happened.  The opposite has happened too.

[yakelbtc]

Yes there difference example  when you buy stock in high price then nxt day go down dont sell it you cAn hold the stock  you only lost When you by in high price then you sell in low price you lost your money,.

[OrientA]

Yes there difference example  when you buy stock in high price then nxt day go down dont sell it you cAn hold the stock  you only lost When you by in high price then you sell in low price you lost your money,.

In stock market, some times, if you do not sell low and hold it for long term, the company could go bankrupt, you will lose everything. So have to take the loss, cut and run.

[bitart]

Yes there difference example  when you buy stock in high price then nxt day go down dont sell it you cAn hold the stock  you only lost When you by in high price then you sell in low price you lost your money,.

In stock market, some times, if you do not sell low and hold it for long term, the company could go bankrupt, you will lose everything. So have to take the loss, cut and run.

This is the hard part To be able to decide if you need to hold or to run If you can decide well you can win in stock exchane as well. But it's really hard. Not only luck (like dice) it's psichology as well. If you risk too much you can hardly take proper deceisons because of worry.

[maku]

Both of them rely on skill and luck, we also can analyze condition & think about strategy about how to make profit.
So, i think there aren't any major difference between stocks trading & gambling. The only difference is stock tradings is 100% legal, while gambling isn't legal.

Some gambling such as poker relies more on skill as you bet against other players. Dice is mainly lucky based.

You can be the most knowledgeable poker player in the world and you can still lose. Skill alone is not enough of a factor in gambling.
In fact in most games it is rather insignificant. But from the other hand with proper knowledge about trading, stocks and condition of the companies you won't lose money on investing.