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US Politics 3w
Stop calling it prediction markets, and stop calling it stock trading. It’s gambling.
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Anonymous 3w

Stock trading can be gambling, but it isn’t if you’re actually smart and actually research your trades. None of the finance bro influencers do that because financial statements don’t get clicks

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Anonymous 3w

Gambling implies random chance which we don’t have, with certain traders allegedly knowing how the political winds will change shortly before they do

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Anonymous 3w

insider trading and gambling.

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Anonymous 3w

Gambling with a historic 8% return?

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Anonymous 3w

“There’s only 2 industries left in America. Gambling and fraud. The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

The thing about those traders is it’s essentially impossible to prove they had advance knowledge of something. Especially geopolitical events. Unless it’s the president himself, you aren’t likely to be able to know for sure and even then it would never be allowed to come out exactly when a president made their mind up for national security reasons.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

key terms: "certain traders" they're the house, and the rest of the vast and overwhelming majority are gamblers

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

stock trading is definitionally gambling

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

It's gambling in the moral sense

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

I’ve done quite well with ES Mini Futures since December and the most common idiom within trading whether it’s stocks, futures, or commodities. No one predicts the market. No one.

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