Difference between Trader and Investor
What is difference between trader and Investor?
Ask following two questions to yourself and you will get the answers automatically.
1.Do you want to take high risk or low risk?
2.Do you have time on daily basis to sit in front of stock market to monitor the prices?
Read below explanation for your choices
If you decided to take high risk and have lots of time -
If you want to take high risk and have lots of time to sit in front of the stock market to monitor the stock prices then you can go for short term trading. Day trading or buy today or sell tomorrow or buy today and sell after few weeks etc. these all comes under trading (and not investing) and also called as short term trading.
Returns in short term trading -
Returns (profits) are not sure. You may get high returns or low returns or some time you may end up into loss especially in day trading or future trading.
Please note - Returns in stock markets are not guaranteed.
| Trader |
Investor |
| 1. |
Look for short term returns |
Look for long term returns. |
| 2. |
Traders can be day trader or
from few days to few weeks |
Investors can be few years to
several years. |
| 3. |
Traders do short term trading
based ov technical
indicators, charts, news etc. |
Investor do fundamental
analysis and invest in good
growth and value stocks for
long term. |
| 4. |
Trading based on day trading
or short term, involves
heavy risk. |
Investing for long term and
that also based on solid
fundamental will have very
low risk. |
| 5. |
Need to watch/moniter stock
market prices on day to day
basics, so that you can
square off your stocks. |
No need to watch market on
daily basis. As you have
invested for long term. |
| 6. |
Most of the traders may land
up into panic during market
fall and do wrong tardes. |
Most of the investors don't
worry for daily ups and downs.
But infact if market falls heavily
then wise investors buy value
stocks at bottom price. |
Note - History of stock market shows that investing for long term in
solid fundamental stocks provides very low risk and high
returns.
Do you want to become trader or investor?
Whenever any new person comes to stock market automatically two questions comes into picture.
1.One is where to invest and
2.Second is how long to invest and how to get best returns.
But after going through following paragraphs you may be in better position to take best decision.
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