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Do you consider "investing in stocks" as simply a longer timeframe version of trading, where trading could mean trading financial futures, commodities, even day trading?
Or do you think "investing in stocks" is fundamentally different?
Almost everyone responded that investing is different than trading. Time-factor aside, what else do you think is "different" about it?
trading attempts to beat the markets at its own game. you do not want to accept the market returns everyone else gets for holding that stock and doing nothing.
accepting year after year more or less what the markets hand you is investing , beating that return requires speculating and trading. to some extent all actively managed funds involve some level of speculating and trading .
but usually the individual company risk is reduced to a level that is nil. you may hit or miss the market averages by a point or 2 but generally you will be in the ball park.
not true trading stocks were you can gain or miss by a wide amount.
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