Is trading Futures gambling?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Lloyd W. Coutee, Oct 19, 2015.

  1. Greatly explained the difference that so often comes up. Trading and gambling are just 2 vastly separate and different fields. Trading requires the traders to work so that the odds become increasingly in his favor. But in gambling your hands are tied, whenever someone finds any edge or hack in a casino, it soon gets caught and causes the gambler to lose it all.

    Trading if done properly with right research, knowledge and management is a great and probably the most lucrative and clean business on earth.
     
    #31     Oct 26, 2015

  2. Did you really spend all this time and efforts to choose a TV ???? How many hours
    did all of this take?
     
    #32     Oct 26, 2015
  3. Butterball

    Butterball

    Any trading is gambling if you have no idea what you're doing. Futures are just one vehicle.
     
    #33     Oct 26, 2015
  4. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    Research done online fairly quickly. Driving to the store to actually see the TV in person took a little more time except for the last store. That one I got in some exercise because I used my bike to get there. :D
     
    #34     Oct 26, 2015
  5. I'd say it's gambling for most, but there's people on 'the inside' who have access to information that tells them exactly where the markets going!
     
    #35     Oct 26, 2015
  6. Man, I'm so agree with this. This is what makes us a trader, not a gambler. Cuz we analyze the market before entering an order, we manage our money so we don't risk much to it...
     
    #36     Oct 28, 2015
  7. maxinger

    maxinger

    It is and it is not, depending on individuals.
     
    #37     Aug 21, 2020
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  8. There is a certain percentage of excitement, of course, in this, but I would not say that this is 100% true.
     
    #38     Aug 21, 2020
  9. hilmy83

    hilmy83

    If you have a positive expectancy strategy and bet the farm, what do you call that?
     
    #39     Aug 21, 2020