Is Stokes Gambling?

Chris Sampson
2 min readMar 2, 2021

Gambling and stocks have similar outcomes and ideas such as you put money into a company or bet for gambling and you hope that the out come will be in your favour. But there is one factor that has a huge difference between the two, stocks allow you to look into the company and see how they have performed and what the trends are looking like an example of this is amazon over 10 years amazon has gained 1,340% and that’s like wow, also another example is Tesla and these guys make you want to go back in time and invest, and sorry in advance to know about how much you missed out on so Investing $1,000 in June 2010 would have made you $16,867.37, this is why its so different to gambling because you could notice that the tesla shares were doing extremely well and this could of allowed you to invest maybe a little bit later on down the line but with gambling and casinos its all just luck and chance, yes yes it is also a bit of luck but you can increase that by watching the market and keeping up to date with what company is doing well and which is doing bad.

Again there are some similarity with knowing when to pull out because at some point you can lose it all but again more likely with gambling, think of gambling and betting as a cliff and you just off, you’re gonna drop straight down as with stocks its more of a slip and slide down a hill so you can get off you just need to notice before you’re at the bottom. Both are a great way of making money and losing money just one is a little less luck based and more knowing the know you know.

You might hear now and again that stocks are like gambling and they aren’t completely wrong but guess they are as well again its a matter of option and I’m just giving mine, so enjoy investing and seeing if you’re gonna make it big or enjoy the slip and slide.

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