This shit gets old, get your facts straight.

Investing implies letting money work in a sense that it is actually utilized by somebody else. Buying stocks is investing and speculation, the company issuing the stock uses the money and pays out dividends.
That's the investing part.
The actual valuation of the stock is speculation, so for instance the value of a stock can rise but the dividends stay the same, this for example happens with pump & dump penny stocks.

Venture Capitalists do pure investing, they don't want a stake in the company but just effectively giving out a loan.


The obsession with holding and then calling it investing reeks of self delusion on your part.
So hodlers - lets argue.