Comments on: Poll, Is Stock Trading A Game?

By: Mikel

Mikel — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:11:59 +0000

Looking back at my own portfolio and chances taken, my game looks more like high stakes keno than anything you’d call a business! hahahaha

By: Kavit Haria

Kavit Haria — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:47:55 +0000

Stock trading is a game. The safest way to play it is a game. Think about it like anything else and it’ll mess with your head. This way you appreciate what happens, learn from it and make another move. Pass go and collect 200. Stay out of Jail. Those are the rules as far as I see it Blain.

By: My Trader's Journal

My Trader's Journal — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:51:41 +0000

Anything this fun has to be considered a game. I consider pro sports a game although it’s actually someone’s job. Just because it takes skill to consistently get it right doesn’t keep it from being a game.
As long as it’s not completely transparent (i.e. Enron) it still has an element of betting in it. Even if all companies told the truth all the time, what the Fed does could be considered a gamble on the stocks for how they will react to the unknown.

By: Mikel

Mikel — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:46:17 +0000

Stock trading (unless you are doing soemthing illegal) it totally a “game”. It has rules, it has players. it punishes the losers and prizes the winners. sure you could say that given the right information it would never be a game, or a wager but really there is always the “chance” factor. Makes equity trading more like casino night than . . . .