Exploring the difference between day trading and gambling

by webwareshop

Many new traders often fail to make money trading forex because they are lured by the easy prospects of making millions of dollars and are confused over the hundreds of indicators and forex financial terms. With tons of da...read more

by Matt Castle

Hello, my name is Matt and I am a self confessed trader. I have been a successful trader for nearly 10 years, but I've also lost thousands in minutes while simultaneously wishing I had a well timed bleep to edit my "figur...read more

by John Bird

Are you looking into a career in day trading? In the past, the tools for day trading were available only to professionals. But thanks to the power of the Internet, everything you need to get started is now conveniently onl...read more

by Christopher Diedrich

Trading, and specifically day-trading, has certainly been around for a long time, but it gained sweeping popularity during the 90's stock market boom. Although the fervor has dampened a bit there are still a great numbe...read more

by Grey Khoo

In gambling, you do not have control over the outcome of the bet and very much depends on luck. Gambling is just a guessing game on which way the cards or the dice will roll. Now for day trading, it really depends on how ...read more

by aforlan

My father said that the stock market activities are not different with gambling. They buy a stock in the morning. One hour next, the stock could rise over many times. My father also added the trading at stock market is unr...read more

by Dean Fox

Investing and gambling is really the same thing. I mean life is a gamble, you can get hit by a bus or get divorced however day trading is much safer than gambling especially if you spread your risk around a bit. As long...read more

by Carol Noble

I am sick of people saying the City deals with "investments" when it is no more than a gamble, and so many organisations improve their clients' investments by "gambling" on the stock/share market. Day trading is but one f...read more

by Adam W

Day-trading is defined as taking a round trip trade within one trading session, and regardless of what you may have heard, there is no definition indicative of any particular strategy. There are no rules for what particula...read more

by Jonathan Buckley

There is a classic book called,"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel. Although this was originally written well before the rise of the internet and the popularity of day trading, he explored the idea that sho...read more

by Dana Sparks

As far as I can see it-it certainally seems to all be the same thing-DOESN'T IT? Only difference is people who are "usually" involved with day-trading probably have heftier bank accounts, and after all, the stoc...read more