Or is this the difference between trading and investing?
> Or is this the difference between trading and investing?
Probably, or rather between purely speculating and investing?
But i don't think there are hard and fast definitions.
See Swing Trading, Day Trading etc. for shorter-term time-horizons. Keeping stocks only intra-day would be Day Trading (generally).
There are lots of people on the internet who say they can 'teach' you day-trading. Don't do it unless you have a very high risk tolerance, i.e. are willing to lose it all and walk away. Even then there's probably better things to do with your money.
Yeah I know, watched a ton of videos documenting the shady things these finance-gurus have done over the years. For a couple of months I was involved in a signal-trading group (I knew them personally), but I never had a good feeling about it and pulled my money without loosing much of it.
After playing around with crypto I've come to the conclusion that a savings and retirements account is probably the better solution for me, even though the interest is laughable. At least the money is safe as long as the global financial system doesn't totally collapse.
In the end I don't care enough about having more money to venture into investing etc., and I'm too scared of being conned by someone.
People who benefit from it (market administrators, traders) like to pretend it increases the liquidity of the market and that it’s a good thing. How you appreciate this argument generally directly depends of how much you stand to gain from it being accepted.
The implication seems to be stocks jump at the open then trail off during the day. Thing is most of this is only obvious in retrospect and by the time you realize it the opportunity is gone because it’s now widely known.