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Soleron said:

Yakuzaice said:

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You'd have about $36 not $1000 if you had invested one dollar in Apple ten years ago.    Also if you had invested before the stock tanked in 2000 you wouldn't have recovered your initial investment for about four years.

Also I don't think Rocksteady is publicly traded.

This. It's easy to look back and say "Well I knew it would make so mcuh money", but if you had invested a reasonable amount of money ($100, or $1000) and the company had gone bust, or your prediction failed, or any number of other events, you could have lost it.

The reason banks make money from the stock market and people never do is because they have such a large reserve they can invest in everything, and if everything busts at once then the people who profited during the up times are never held personally financially responsible. Or even the bank gets bailout money to cover for bad decisions.

97% of peopl who invest in the stock market loose money, 2% stay even, and 1% gain what those 97% lost. Your also right, it's easy to look back and say (I could have done better). Also I think I meant to say $100 for Apple, not $1,000, so any investment made in 2,000 wold have gone up considerable.

I only invest in stocks and go to casino's once in a while for fun. I'm hopeful that I make money, but I expect to loose everything I invest. So I only ever invest small sums (Usualy <$100), and generally I make a small profit because I rarely take risks.

It's fun predicting a games success, isn't the reason why most people joined this forum to predicts or analyze the success of their favorite games, or just new games on the market?