Read the previous Part: Are Stocks Gambling? - Part I. Many people think that stocks still sound like gambling, even stock players might think so, because they treat the stock business not as a business, but as a gamble.
Besides, THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND, and keep that in mind. People think stocks are gambling because: First, they don't know anything about stocks. On social media, it's like people who like to talk, have opinions like experts even though they only read the title, haven't read the content at all.
How can you say that chess is a useless sport, when you don't understand the rules of chess, don't know how to play chess, or have never played chess at all?
How can you say stocks are gambling, when you don't know how to buy and sell stocks, don't know how to read charts, don't know how to read financial reports, never buy go public stocks? Boro2 buys shares going public, saying that even going public in Indonesia is not necessarily possible.
Second, people who consider stocks to be gambling because they lose big from stocks due to their ignorance about the risks of stock investment, and their lack of knowledge about the stock market. There are also people who lose and then scapegoat the stock market as a place to gamble, and eventually 'retire' from the stock market.
So, people who think that stocks are gambling are actually people who don't have any knowledge about stocks, and the types of people who give up easily and then blame the stock market as a gambling arena.
Back to the core question in this post: Are stocks gambling? The answer: It all comes back to you. What is clear, the moral message I want to convey in this post is never to think of the stock market as a gambling game just because you heard it from Person A and only because of your own opinion (even though you have never learned about the world of stocks).
Don't be people who like to have opinions just by reading the title, without reading the content. Never judge 'bad' any field of knowledge, if you have never studied and tried it yourself.
