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Personal Finance > Investing Basics Speculating vs investing: What's the difference?

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Trading on the markets essentially boils down to buying or selling what you think is going to make you a profit. Sound familiar? It's pretty much the same thing that we do when we go to the races or hit a casino. I really don't think that there's that much difference between speculating and investing, the terms get bandied about to label people who lean towards short or longer term time horizons.

The day trader who takes a punt that Google will be up three cents in an hour's time is no different in principle from the value investor who does his research and then decides that IBM's cur...

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