Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

Is Trading Gambling or not

  • Gambling

    Votes: 460 35.0%

  • Not Gambling

    Votes: 854 65.0%
  • Total voters
    1,314
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It really depends on the approach that a market participant takes. A lot of newcomers approach trading as gambling, some approach it as science, and most people are somewhere in the middle.
 
And some people approach creation as an accident...

Quote from spacewiz:

It really depends on the approach that a market participant takes. A lot of newcomers approach trading as gambling, some approach it as science, and most people are somewhere in the middle.
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Quote from ElectricSavant:

Lets examine this example. Please be patient with my simple minded ways and plain talk...

You trade an instrument and go long and short at the same time in it. You set up your trades with targets in equal increments.

So lets say were long on EUR/USD and our profit targets are 20 pips. As the long side goes up we are entering and exiting each 20 pips. The short side is accumulating entries temporarily. When it reverses then the opposite will happen. You would need to learn to carry high unrealized P/L. but your profit comes from the boxed in volatility grabbing....

Take a trade size based on a 10 year range of the instrument.
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works in ranging; get killed in trending, fast moving in either direction.
 
absolutley....

so lets come up with a way that trading can be "not gambling"

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Quote from adadadog:

works in ranging; get killed in trending, fast moving in either direction.
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Gambling for those that dont know anything about trading , they open a trading account and they wipe out, Not gambling for those who take it slow and try to understand the game every day, Like me:cool:
 
So let me see if I got this right...

If a trader slowly loses money it is "Not Gambling"

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Quote from newbie2010now:

Gambling for those that dont know anything about trading , they open a trading account and they wipe out, Not gambling for those who take it slow and try to understand the game every day, Like me:cool:
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