If you fell for the “safety” of the stock market, by all means stay in it. If not, gambling is also legal in many states.
It’s only gambling if you do it wrong.
Look at all the indexes over a longer period of time.
Anyone that calls that gambling is a sore loser that tried to get rich quick and jump in and out of the market.
There really is no secret or magic to investing. Positive cash flow, saved, into instruments that produce net positive to inflation returns, with time and patience equals profit. To manage the risk, very effectively diversify and when any buying decision is made, let it be made with value in mind, not exuberance or greed.
If you can do the above, you make money. Period, nuff said.
“Gambling” comments are the words of sour grapes losers that mistreated the market and want to blame SOMEONE OTHER THAN THEMSELVES.
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