7 tell tale sign to differentiate investors from gamblers
1. Gambler watch the price chart every minute everyday whereas investor don't look at the price chart so often.
2. Gambler portfolio are all filled with options and FD (deep OTM calls options) whereas investor portfolio is filled with stocks and maybe some options to hedge against risk.
3. Gambler panick when price drop where as investor rejoice and buy the dip.
4. Gambler will post lots of comment daily asking why price drop, blaming shorties, yelling green day or red days where investor talk about fundamentals.
5. Gambler buy to earn profit in the short term while investors buy to profit in the long term
6. Gambler can't give you a sound argument in one sentence why the company they buy is a worthy investment (some don't even know what the company sells) but an investor will be able to and some can keep yapping on and on and on.
7. Gambler don't understand what they are buying and won't bother spending a lot of time researching and looking through all the company documents whereas investor do a lot more homework on the company they are buying.
2. Gambler portfolio are all filled with options and FD (deep OTM calls options) whereas investor portfolio is filled with stocks and maybe some options to hedge against risk.
3. Gambler panick when price drop where as investor rejoice and buy the dip.
4. Gambler will post lots of comment daily asking why price drop, blaming shorties, yelling green day or red days where investor talk about fundamentals.
5. Gambler buy to earn profit in the short term while investors buy to profit in the long term
6. Gambler can't give you a sound argument in one sentence why the company they buy is a worthy investment (some don't even know what the company sells) but an investor will be able to and some can keep yapping on and on and on.
7. Gambler don't understand what they are buying and won't bother spending a lot of time researching and looking through all the company documents whereas investor do a lot more homework on the company they are buying.
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GameOverBro : gamblers also buy loss making stock hoping it will reach the moon
T将军 : When the stock market is crazy, it's basically no different from gamblers, just like US stocks last year
doctorpot1OP GameOverBro: Like Uber, Tesla many years back? it was loss making for so many years. not all who buy loss making company is gambler, only those who don't know why the company is losing money but still buy it is gambling.
老Uncle doctorpot1OP: regardless, its still a gamble. hey that what life is in many ways. exciting!
GameOverBro doctorpot1OP: hello, Tesla is actually making something different. Grab has Foodpanda, gojek, deliveroo, comfortdelgro to readily replace it. Uber.. not doing so well also
doctorpot1OP GameOverBro: did you know Tesla almost when bankrupt once when they are listed? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/03/musk-tesla-was-about-a-month-from-bankruptcy-during-model-3-ramp.html