Optimistic Greed.- Stock Market's Alchemy

Stocks are only paper assets.
The more you hold, the more you are trapped.
Long term investment  has been approved by all.
Short time ones are gambling.
Intraday trading are high end casinos.
In the casinos, it is the house that is rewarded, not the player.
We find the same calibre in the stock markets.
Yet the desire to compete never dies.
Can we term it as optimistic greed?

The ups and downs in the last decade ,have wiped a neat percentage of investment.
The despair was present for a few years, but the urge to win or precisely to make quick money has dispelled this strain.
Again there is a frenzied momentum in the market.
The cues signify a thrust upwards,and a pull downwards .
This tug of war has set in a throbbing unrest among the investors.
This oscillation is created by stock bourses.
While there is a mad rush for accumulation of stocks ,there appears a down trend in the market.
The gullible investor  gathers a  sizeable volume.
The market rises marginally.
Happiness looms large.
A step up occurs.Joy be with the investor.
He adds to his collection.
The temptation becomes unresistable.
The stock market crashes suddenly.
The investor is duped.
The suicidal inclination settles in.
Meantime ,the fat cats  in wall street, would have fattened themselves.
They would have earned millions in this volatile game.
Our friend, the investor has lost most of his savings.
He gropes in the dark.
This is for a couple of days.
Again , the addiction impels him to get into trading.
He is on the stage once again.

Is there any rehabiltation centre for investors such as the one  for drunkards and drug addicts?

Legalised Casinos

The stock markets are legalised Casinos ,calls Dacid Weidner.
No better epithet can best describe the stock markets.
Casinos make you a billionaire , overnight.
they also push you to become a pauper over the day.
The addiction is so immense, that you have to wrestle out to come out of this temptation that is so fascinating, rather so overpowering that you lose your mind,forget your status, behave quixotically.
The lure for money , quick money  will force you to enter the gamble with vigour and velocity.


A similar behaviour is found in the stock market trading. A long time stock is an investment. A short one is a gamble.
The intraday is the best conspirer, or precisely  a perfect conjurer.
One day you make thousands, some acquire millions, without any money. it  is playing .
The next day you lose millions or billions too.
The day after , you cannot be at rest,instead you enter trading.
You win or lose.,does not matter, but you have certainly lost your balance.
The play is legalised. it is respectable than Casinos.
You can proudly say that you are doing share trading.
It is a profession
Casino is not a profession.

Both are seductions, harmful and impish