What is the difference between Investments and trading?

[Neha Narayanan]

Investment refers to buying shares and holding them for a long period of time and selling them later.Whereas in trading, shares are bought and sold at regular and frequent intervals.

[KAVITHA SUNDER]

Investing and trading are two very different methods of attempting to profit in the financial markets
Investment means buying and holding of a portfolio of stocks for a long time. Trading, on the other hand, involves the more frequent buying and selling of stock,

[Rajesh]

Investment is mainly about owning a stock for a very long time. Investment can be in the form of fixed deposit or buy a land in real estate, whereas trading is mainly about buy and selling the stock within a short period of time.

[Padmanabha]

Investing and trading are two very different methods of attempting to profit in the financial markets. The goal of investing is to gradually build wealth over an extended period of time through the buying and holding of a portfolio of stocks, baskets of stocks, mutual funds, bonds and other investment instruments.

[Bharathi]

When a stock is bought in term of long time basis then it is investment at the other end if it is done in short time basis then it is trading.

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