Yes the trick is knowing that you aren't actually investing, but speculating and gambling. Your money is not actually moving the needle in any significant way

Yes the trick is knowing that you aren't actually investing, but speculating and gambling. Your money is not actually moving the needle in any significant way like a true investment (e.g. giving start up capital to your brother's small business), you are just a speck of dust riding a global corporation's variable cash flow and you are trying to siphon out what you can when you need to.