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The handle Casinostocks was created when I was day trading stocks in my younger days. I was too lazy to think of something else when I joined this Site back in 2016 so just as a joke I created an account here, not expecting to stick around for long at all, yet here we are! Actually, the nomenclature has very little to do with stocks in a casino or any casino for that matter but it was conjured up as a sort of a gaffe and joke believing that playing the markets is akin to parlaying in casino type gambling games.
Now regarding playing with any individual stocks: unless you have solid insider information (to go long or short) for which if caught you will go to prison, my advice would be to avoid playing them as if it were a plague! In fact, if you lose your $ by going to a casino, you may get comp'ed a room and some meals if you play for long enough. In the markets, you will be lucky to get lubed up before you get royally, eh, hm, ah, ha! If you're an average working stiff and can take advantage of saving schemes such as Roth IRA and similar, then contribute your max yearly toward your eventual retirement, buy the indices like S&P and then salivate over the growth of your portfolio in the long term, count your paper wealth but knowing that to cash out before its maturity, you will be penalized like an a**hole. In fact, Wall Street types don't like giving any money back to anyone and once that whole sum balloons to a sizable amount after 25 years, they will come up with other schemes to generate you an income stream and doing their preventative best to dissuade you from cashing out in totality.
If you have entrepreneurial aspirations and vision, always invest others' monies and a bit of your own in your own business rather than investing in others' schemes. Work hard, pay attention to trends and offer the kinda good & services which will be much more rewarding than piggy backing individual stocks as a retail customer, unless you have had great tangible experience by playing the insiders games and are well adept at level 3 trading (level 2 is not good enough). I have been outta the game for a long time so what I was yammering on about are 15+ years old information based on personal experiences.
ETA: for every AMZN, APPL, FaceFuck and Goog, there are a massive litany of failures and losers which get cut out of the indices so that you never know the casualties, only the heroes!
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