I choose to believe definitions #1 and #2, because they are most consistent with both my personal belief and the two other dictionaries I double...
Of course I wouldn't because that would be gambling.
If you think casino's gamble, then there really isn't much I, or anyone here on ET can say to change your mind. I would suggest you go pick...
Both of these questions are irrelevant. A casino has no idea which bets they cover are going to be winners or losers, but that doesn't mean...
My personal opinion, and the strategy that I implement, is full fault tolerance and redundancy. Any combination of the following can happen at...
Shorting against the box only allows you to (1) sometimes sidestep the uptick rule and (2) take advantage of of the tax law if you hold one side...
It's actually impossible to be both long and short at the same time. If your net position, across all accounts, is greater than 0 then you're...
Just because an individual can't identify an edge does not mean that one doesn't exist. Conversely, just because an individual thinks he's...
Under this logic, if you took a bet where you were guaranteed to win $1 80% of the time and lose $1 20% of the time.... you'd be gambling....
Again, this comment is based on a misguided notion. Look at this scenario. If you and I were going to flip a coin for money, and you decided...
The title of the thread was "is trading gambling" not "can the average person trade without having to gamble" ... obviously there are those in the...
So the big question is whether or not we satisfied all the skeptics who were under the misguided notion that trading is gambling simply because it...
So I guess you could say that if you wanted to play the odds, you'd switch to door #2... if you wanted to gamble you'd stay with door #1.
If anyone can find video of the entire congressional testimony from cspan it would be very much appreciated if you could post it a link. I...
By buying insurance whenever the dealer is showing an Ace... but its not a very good bet.
Pretty much... all you need is your 1099 that your clearing firm provides you at the end of the year. Although, the same information is usually...
It would be virtually impossible for you to be able to sell the physical metals on the futures exchange. You have to be in the business of doing...
I wonder how many people they had in their group to raise that kind of capital and how many people they have to split it between.
The key is that each week when you run the lottery, each possible winning combination/permutation has the exact same chance of being hit week in...
I believe that would be accurate. So for instance... if you're a trader that has a very very large trading account, and you want to make the...
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