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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Comparing gambling to trading
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serjent05
on 11/04/2025, 12:30:20 UTC
And trading is a job, and it cannot bring passive income, because in order to earn money on trading, you need to be present. And if you consider the profit from a long-term transaction as passive income, then this is a mistake, because you must also control this transaction and take the profit, and this is no longer passive income

I'm sorry but I don't agree with what you said here, because it depends on how they treat trading, because some people think of trading as a personal job without a boss but they control their time. Others think it's their personal business, because they just set it up correctly according to their technical or fundamental analysis then even if they leave it if they have set TP and SL they can go back to whatever they are busy with.

Because trading doesn't require you to be focused all day in front of your desktop or laptop, that's not the case. Unless you are a professional scalper who can really say that the income at this level is huge., while gambling you won't win if you don't play at the casino.

Trading is indeed an active job, if one see it as a job.  I agree with @Cryptmuster since one needs to monitor the market, may it be the whole day or once every 12 hours, that alone is an action.  Unlike passive income when one just needs to spend money and wait for the money to earn like earnings from dividends, royalties, earning from bank interests or bonds, etc.   Unless one is using a bot where he just configures the trading setup and let it run for itself.


With regards to the thought that cashout in gambling and stop lose/take profit in trading as 100% the same, I beg to disagree, There might be some similarities but there are differences. One noticeable difference is that gambling cash-out is dictated by emotion while stop-loss is planned.