What is the difference between Investments and trading?

[canute]

Investment is buying shares & holding it for a period of time, Trading is Short Term 4 to 7 days.

[Poojitha Konduru]

Trading is buying and selling of shares and is usually short term. Investment is investing in a company for which shares are issued in return. If the shares are retained for a long term then its an investment, hence its long term in nature.

 

[Ranjani Arumugam]

Investments are where you buy shares, hold on to them for a length of time, and sell to book profit in  a few months going up to a few years.;whereas in trading, you buy shares, hold on to them for a short time and sell  to book profit in a few days, to a couple months maximum.

[Aravind S]

<span style=”color: #777777; font-family: ‘Roboto Slab’; font-size: 13px;”>Buying and holding stocks for a longer period is called as investment. Buying and selling in short intervals so as to earn profit in a short span of time is called trading.</span>

[Vimal Kumar]

Investment is holding a stock for long term, for 3 to 5 years. This needs basically a thorough analysis of a company. Mostly it needs fundamental Analysis.

Trading is holding a stock for short term, from 1 day to few months. Technical analysis would be the best for this trading.

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