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

[magicmexican]

For buying shares ,as an investors, they should do the due diligent.
In gamble you should know how to control yourself.

Diligent work applies very well to sport betting (researching a team/player, etc) and poker (overall working on your game, putting tons of hours to studying various concepts)
Self-control is usefull and mandatory there as well, but its mostly useless in games like dice and roulette, where self control wont help you win, so you might as well go full-retard.

[BTCevo]

To be sure, self control is important for investing as well. But a good investor can ride out a bad phase whereas a gambler would lose his shirt as gambling outcomes are binary events

what do you mean? Is self control really needed in investing? Because what I know you just need to have luck and have big balance when you start investing on some gambling site. And you really need to get more information on particular site to make sure that they will last long enough to get profit

[KingZee]

what do you mean? Is self control really needed in investing? Because what I know you just need to have luck and have big balance when you start investing on some gambling site. And you really need to get more information on particular site to make sure that they will last long enough to get profit

He meant gambling. Self-control is definitely a must in gambling, if you don't know when to pull out, you're going against the house odds, and you'll never win.

As for stock exchange, self-control means to be able to resist the urge to sell/buy, and act patiently in order to maximize your profits. Contrarily to gambling, stocks and investing is just a matter of patience.

[futurebit640]

For buying shares ,as an investors, they should do the due diligent works before buying them otherwise blindly buying shares whose represented companies are probably about to collapse will lead you lose all of the investment. Buying shares sometimes likes gamble  as well. You should know what you are doing then you will be safe with your money. In gamble you should know how to control yourself.

Even though if one don't buy shares without proper study but still they will not lose all of there investment in just one day or in few minutes like people lose money in gambling so I don't agree on both investing shares and gambling are same but both have a different kinds of risks.

[Ceizer54]

Not Everyone mate,Gambing depends on luck factor..some people win BIG from small amount and some people even lose BIG on small odds so gambling is based on pure luck..yes if you become greedy and did not stop when you know you should then you will lose simply coz you can't win always and Stock exchange is completely different thing..it can't be compared to gambling..if you have the knowlege of stocks,bonds you can try stock exchange..Stock markets are not based on luck..To succeed in stock exchange you have to first gather some experience of buying which shares and to predict the rates.

[fullypak]

Not Everyone mate,Gambing depends on luck factor..some people win BIG from small amount and some people even lose BIG on small odds so gambling is based on pure luck..yes if you become greedy and did not stop when you know you should then you will lose simply coz you can't win always and Stock exchange is completely different thing..it can't be compared to gambling..if you have the knowlege of stocks,bonds you can try stock exchange..Stock markets are not based on luck..To succeed in stock exchange you have to first gather some experience of buying which shares and to predict the rates.

But some time stock market also need some luck to get out on right time. In stock market timing is very important because you just buy and don't monitor your share prices than you can make a lot loses so one should always need to watch out on share prices. But stock market is not fully depends a luck as you said.

[futurebit640]

Currently due to Chinese stock market crash most of the world markets are in deep red. It looks like this will continue for some more time until Chinese market stabilize but I think Chinese market is still very expensive and we will see some more days these big crashes. But with this kind of big crashes also investors will not lose all money at once like happens in gambling.

[BitMaxz]

For me they are difference because gambling is fun and stock exchange for traders that want to earn money by trading but they have the same that you need to be luck to win your predict. honestly im not a professional trader but if i granted to choose in stock exchange or gambling i will choose stock exchange for making money...

[dhimasnk]

at the stock exchange you will win, in gambling you will lose

[chennan]

Currently due to Chinese stock market crash most of the world markets are in deep red. It looks like this will continue for some more time until Chinese market stabilize but I think Chinese market is still very expensive and we will see some more days these big crashes. But with this kind of big crashes also investors will not lose all money at once like happens in gambling.

Well even with that, you can bet in "gambling" with binary options that allow you to "bet" against the market.  There's always a way to make money in the stock trade if you feel like something is going down and you want to bet against it.  People always think that when dealing with stocks that you have to invest in something for it to go "up"... which is not the case, because you can bet against something and profit when the value in a stock goes down.

[klf]

at the stock exchange you will win, in gambling you will lose

There is no guaranty that you will surly win in stock exchange investment because if you invest in some bad companies at wrong time than the prices will never go high and you will never make a profit so you should study companies carefully before investing in stock market to make profits.

[Kevin77]

at the stock exchange you will win, in gambling you will lose

There is no guaranty that you will surly win in stock exchange investment because if you invest in some bad companies at wrong time than the prices will never go high and you will never make a profit so you should study companies carefully before investing in stock market to make profits.

Yes buying share market stocks also as same kind of for this like gambling. A detailed study before investing into share maket is more essential to sage guard our funds. But compared to gambling, share markets are lesser riskier when we considering the time we can get in share markets.

[fullypak]

at the stock exchange you will win, in gambling you will lose

There is no guaranty that you will surly win in stock exchange investment because if you invest in some bad companies at wrong time than the prices will never go high and you will never make a profit so you should study companies carefully before investing in stock market to make profits.

Yes buying share market stocks also as same kind of for this like gambling. A detailed study before investing into share maket is more essential to sage guard our funds. But compared to gambling, share markets are lesser riskier when we considering the time we can get in share markets.

That is correct. In share market we will not lose all our money at one shot so we will get a time to take out some portion of our money before company go full lose. But in gambling we can either make quick profit or we can lose all our investment at one shot. So investing in share market is always better than gambling.

[twister]

Firstly I think Stock exchange is lot more passive than compared to gambling, you can buy and set up your stop loss, so you don't lose anymore than the specified amount and secondly gambling for the most part is based on luck, whereas stock trading relies on various other factors, which makes it much safer.

[JeWay]

The difference is, you've to wait to see your profit/loss with the stock exchange but you don't have to wait a long time to see if you earn a profit/loss with gambling

[Dannie]

The difference is, you've to wait to see your profit/loss with the stock exchange but you don't have to wait a long time to see if you earn a profit/loss with gambling

This is not always true, as not all bets reveal the result fast. For example, you can make a bet on the 2016 US presidential election now and you will need to wait for many months to see if you have won or lost the bet.

[klf]

The difference is, you've to wait to see your profit/loss with the stock exchange but you don't have to wait a long time to see if you earn a profit/loss with gambling

Mostly I agree that gambling results are quite faster compared to stock market results except in some special betting games or like elections.

In stock market you will not lose money instantly like in gambling but you will have a chance to withdraw you're partial amount before it goes to zero value.

[futurebit640]

The difference is, you've to wait to see your profit/loss with the stock exchange but you don't have to wait a long time to see if you earn a profit/loss with gambling

Any true investments you must give a time to appreciate you're money either in stock markets or real estate or any other investments but only in gambling you will see the results quite fast. But chances for winning in gambling are quite slim. So invest and wait for profits rather losing faster.