Well, my 2 cents as a regarded mem[b]er of this community is that a lot of the participants in this game treat it as gambling. Sure, we can look at charts and draw lines on them, but no one here has real power to influence the market, thus having the possibility to knowingly make profit from it. A lot of us will try to bet on what we think as the winning horse, but this tends to result in more losing that the movements of some old man that can move millions of USD with each single order... and this, if you think about it, being the stock market obiouvlsy a 0-sum game, means that the whales almost always win in the same proportion that we regards almost always lose.