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If you trade for a living, you are not an investor; you are a trader. Whether retail or wholesale is irrelevant. Trading and investing are completely differen
by fredkbloggs 11y ago
If you trade for a living, you are not an investor; you are a trader. Whether retail or wholesale is irrelevant.
Trading and investing are completely different animals, which you as a trader know very well.
- gnaritas 11y agoTraders are investors with shorter time horizons; they are not different animals. Buying a stock because you think the company is a good value and will grow over time is not different than buying a stock because you think it's going to have positive earnings out tomorrow and the price is going to bounce; both buyers are investors and both are trading, simply on different time horizons.
- fredkbloggs 11y agoIf you don't think that relying on market behavior for profits makes a fundamental difference, we'll have to agree to disagree.
- gnaritas 11y agoNo one said it wasn't different, I said they're both still investors. It's wrong to claim trading isn't investing, it most certainly is.
- ssanders82 11y agoYes, I am a retail trader. My issue was with the phrase "Retail investors buy and hold till retirement"