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If it does not have cash flow it’s not an investment.

Crude oil doesn't have cash flow, but it's a pretty good investment anyway.
Maybe some investments have hidden uses that can't be replaced.
Maybe food too?
 
I am retired and I would never consider
cryptos to fund my retirement.

Maybe a crypto ETF for day trading
purposes, but that's about all.
 
Cryptos are a desaster themselves, a pure pump and dump scheme. Only BTC and ETH are surviving longterm cryptos. The rest come and go. So there is not much choice at all among cryptos for any investment. I have posted in forum here an excel sheet (twice already) that demonstrates this based on market cap among the top 15 cryptos over the last 10 years. There is only BTC and ETH.
 
If you buy an oil well that’s an investment. Buying crude oil contracts is speculating even though the two are similar
 
If you buy an oil well that’s an investment. Buying crude oil contracts is speculating even though the two are similar

That could be.
But, used to be that all longs of stock options were named speculation by the IRS.
(no Long Term gain allowed regardless of the holding period).
Seems that being long a barrel of oil is a whole lot better than owning some out-ot-the-money calls on oil.
 
I think the definitions came from the book “The Intelligent Investor,” made famous by Warren Buffett. Everyone in the investment community agreed on the delineation between speculation and investing based on those definitions in the book.
 
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