Understanding the difference between investing and gambling 9 Articles

by Michael Deqel

In many ways, the difference between investment and gambling is like the fable of the ant and the grasshopper. Investing is putting your money to work like ants, working hard and storing up what you will need for the winte...read more

by Michael Greaney

As a business consultant who - as a favor - helps elderly people prepare their income tax forms, one of the more difficult tasks I have is to guide people away from putting their hard-earned savings into speculative or ove...read more

by Scott Reichel

"Risk" is often identified as a key difference between investing and gambling, but risk is more accurately called a similarity. While the degree of risk varies, risk itself is present in the most conservative investments a...read more

by Costas Chryanthou

Investing has a risk and reward attached to it as does gambling. The similarities investing can be a profitable method of generating a reasonable return over a period of time. Winning on gambling almost unlikely in th...read more

by Jeff Gl

Are you an investor or a gambler? I believe nobody likes to be called a gambler but frankly speaking, very little separates their purported investments from gambling. Nothing ventured, nothing gain. People invest or ...read more

by David Opoku

YOU MIGHT NOT BE AN INVESTOR IN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS, BUT A GAMBLER! Let me ask you this. Do you think you are an investor? If your answer is 'no', it is wrong, because you are. How do I know this? Because you take ri...read more

by Makrand Tilloo

Let me introduce you to a game - You ask all americans to predict the result of a coin toss - either heads or tails. Every individual who is able to predict successfully will get a dollar bill from the one who didn't. Let...read more

by Bill Whitney

A very wise man once told me to never gamble with money that you cannot afford to lose. This same man told me that if you invest in food, medical supplies and utilities you will do OK in the long run and do OK he did. Th...read more

by Dorian Wales

While this title sounds intuitive many so called investors are in fact gamblers. In order to substantiate the difference between the two we need to a closer look in to the basics of investing. When we invest money in a ...read more