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To start off, investing in the stock market is buying little pieces of companies that are able to easily be bought and sold by the retail investor. It's not like gambling where everything is left to chance, but instead, you ......I was scrolling through my Facebook feed when I came across a comment that the stock market is akin to a huge legalized gambling den for the non-institutional investor. I think this is a common misconception, especially among the uninitiated that investing the the stock market is almost the same as going down to the two casinos. It may seem true in the short term, especially in periods such as now where market volatility reaches a peak, when people try to guess the next move of the market, but in the long-term I believe that the market is a weighing machine and is not all that unpredictable.
