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Trading is when your speculating day or week to week.

Investing is saying "ok big warehouses for distribution companies like amazon is a growing market therefore I will buy shares in a company that owns warehouses (BBOX) - this is sort of how Warren Buffet works



Eh, that distinction is ambiguous at best. There's a far larger overlap between speculation and investing. It would be more accurate to say that value investing is different from speculation - but even then, speculation is fundamentally inseparable from investing.


Ok but it is Benjamin Grahams definition - he was Warren Buffets mentor BTW


Perhaps value investing is the definition for "investing". And the rest speculation




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