Trading Stocks Is Like Playing Online Poker Only With Worst Odds

So I have been looking into this stock trading thing a bit more, and with the way a lot of people seems to be "gambling" in the stock market it gave me a tought, "stock trading is actually very similar to online poker", but you know what? In some respect you have a better chance of winning with online poker.

I Thought The Stock Market Was For Buying Shares In Companies Not For Playing With Numbers

Maybe I am wrong, but I always thought that the stock market was a place for buying ownership of companies. To my surprise this fact seems to be lost on a lot of investors. When listening to a lot of them, or reading their comments and investing strategies on the internet, they really do give an impression a lot of them are investing on an almost daily basis. A lot of these stratgies do not seem to talk about the companies they are investing in at all. They all seem to be playing with numbers and graphs and using trends to predict the direction of the stock prices.

Go Short On Facebook

So I was contemplating what my first post was going to be here while uploading my latest profile picture and tagging away at every single person I might vaguely know on Facebook (just kidding by the way I rarely use Facebook...honest), that is when a thought came to me. I remembered all the buzz surrounding the site and all the wild valuations (in my opinion) of how much the site is worth. This has got me thinking about the future of Facebook and whether the current valuation of the company is correct.

Watch Out Wall Street Here I Come

After spending all this time being stupid at other things, and life in general, I have finally gotten round to applying my full intellectual might in trying to conquering the heart of capitalism itself. Watch out Wall Street, here I come.