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		Zetice on July 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: News is bad for you – and giving up reading it wil... Er, individual stock trading is gambling, not investing.

efields on July 5, 2023 [–]

Every investment is a gamble.

Zetice on July 5, 2023 | [–]

A gamble vs. gambling; English is weird, the former means a general risk/reward bet, whereas the latter means to take undue risk for entertainment purposes.

Buying individual stocks is the act of taking unknown risk for entertainment purposes.

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