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With index fund investing growing in popularity and use of robo-advisors increasing, it may seem as if trading individual stocks is quickly becoming one of the many “lost arts.” However, there are still tens of millions of investors who are still trading individual stocks along with other securities. For those who are ready to join […]

If you are interested in currency trading, then you should get familiar with every detail of the currency market. This way, you will know what to expect when trading currencies, what to look for and how to avoid rookie mistakes. Many investors quickly end up losing their money as they underestimate the importance of fully […]

Today many people want to earn more and more money. That is why they look for additional sources of money, and online trading is one of them. If you want to start trading crypto or Forex, you can get a lot of benefits out of them if you know what to do and know what […]

Investment and gambling are at times by some people considered similar to each other, while some people maintain that these are two completely different activities. In this article therefore we shall try to look at these two activities in order to understand how similar or different they are from each other. What is investment? Investment […]

Investing and gambling as you are aware are two different activities but the general perception is such that people sometimes tend to confuse the two activities. This perception however is not without reason as there are plenty of similarities between the two activities. For starters you definitely need luck if you want to be a […]

Gambling is defined by “Encyclopedia Britannica” as “Gambling, the betting or staking of something of value, with consciousness of risk and hope of gain, on the outcome of a game, a contest, or an uncertain event whose result may be determined by chance or accident or have an unexpected result by reason of the bettor’s […]

Gambling may appear as a game of chance and luck from a distance but the more you learn about it, the more you will realize that there is a method to this method. Yes, in the end gambling is heavily based on luck and probability but professional gamblers have come up with strategies to reduce […]

In recent times, the concept of debt has been widely discussed in developed economies, with the level of federal debt held by the US peaking at $19.05 trillion in May, 2020. Of course, debt-to-GDP figures have risen exponentially and throughout the western world during the coronavirus pandemic, with the UK’s public debt now larger than […]

In previous articles we discussed how investment and gambling are alike yet different. We established that while gambling is focused mainly on chance, luck and probability investment is more about calculated decisions and market research. In this article we shall look at another side of investment, one that may end up shattering the foundation that […]

Ambrose Bierce, an American poet and journalist, was able to say this in his book called The Devil’s Dictionary–a business is considered gambling but it disfavors gambling businesses. It does ring a bell when someone thinks about the transactions involved in “casino banking” that led to the financial crisis a decade ago. Those words signify […]