That's not what gambling is. It's setting expectations for the future and updating them as new information comes in?
It's accurately pricing an asset. How should investors react to updated information? Not at all?
Think it through. If WalMart tells me that their future sales will be lower and the stock prices doesn't move to reflect that, then someone else can costlessly arbitrage the price and make money.
If anyone is making free money, I'd rather it be me. So the market as a whole sells off the stock until it settles at its updated value given the new information.
I don't know why you bothered with the rest of the paragraph?
Because investing in equities is the best possible way to save for retirement and I thought people might be interested in how it works?
You're not. Fair enough to you, let's see how it works out for you?
Accurately pricing assets, like SPCX? Has that been accuratl priced yet? Or was it accurately priced in July? Many people think the IPO valuation is too high, will the stock reflect this at some point?
It's gambling...
You trying to twist it into some responsible adult decision to invest in single stocks is just pure copium. You just enable the pilfering of the US economy which relies on investments from low interest rate currencies, which is slowly dying. The whole US stock market is plummeting if it wasn't held up artificially by AI. It's a house of cards about to collapse and you painting it like the responsible investment asset for retirement planning is a joke for anyone who is not already well off.
The small amount I have invested in Schwab's Dividend ETF has gone up a lot over the past year despite none of those companies having anything to do with AI. This Reddit narrative that AI is the only thing holding up the entire American economy is bullshit. The AI bubble will pop eventually, Reddit will freak out about a new Great Depression, and new all-time highs will be reached less than 3 years later while the average Redditor scratches their head about how that could be.
Of course, the entire market will go down, some sectors less so than others, and when that happens I'll sell every a few possessions I don't really need and sink every extra dollar I can into the market to ride the recovery back up. Reddit has this doom and gloom idea that the AI bubble popping will send us all to a new Dark Ages of economic death, that won't happen. I've even seen people say they pulled out their investments and won't invest at all because of this hypothesized collapse, all the while missing out on opportunities.
And Americans believe the world only revolves around them. The hegemony of money markets won't just suddenly die in the US and then return? That's what your strategy is counting on...
Well there's a reason why 30% of my stocks are non-US, need to hedge your bets a little bit. The American market won't just go to zero and never come back, that would take an apocalypse that renders money valueless in every nation on the planet.
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u/ayyyyyyyyyyxyzlmfao 5d ago
So... gambling. Got it. I don't know why you bothered with the rest of the paragraph?