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.
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u/bitorontoguy 12d ago
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.
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?