Am I dumb or I feel like most people are swing trading or “gambling” in a sense and not in these stocks for the long term
u/Willing-Spray7476 ·
Reddit — r/ValueInvesting
· June 01, 2026 at 17:28
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The author critiques the prevalence of short-term, momentum-driven trading disguised as long-term value investing, citing examples like NVDA where buyers lack fundamental understanding.
They argue that many investors neglect due diligence on financials, filings, and business models, relying instead on hype (e.g., AI storage) during a bull market.
Quality assessment: This is opinionated commentary / noise, not well-researched DD. It offers no specific data or analysis, only general skepticism.
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For example, I see stocks all the time which are booming and well we are in a bull market so a lot of stuff is booming. People name stocks just because of an idea of for example ai and how they are going to need to need storage centers (just an example not correct or incorrect) so they buy assuming the price is not already fixed into the market. Yes maybe these stocks are perfect for swing trading, I am not a swing trader or momentum trader who holds for months and then sells but I feel like most people have these stocks or even sometimes etfs at such a high percentage of their portfolio’s like a core holding, holding it for long term and not really understanding the business/company and their financials and what they’re going after and how they’re priced and how well their filings look, etc. and I swear to god I feel like 70% or more of these subreddits not even just this one have all these stocks like that, for example NVDA is a great company/business, shows great numbers and future looks good, yes there are better buys and people don’t want to buy this but in the long term run, this is going to make you a lot of money. I’m talking like 5-10+ years by the way of people long term investing. I’m not going to call out stocks or etfs but i’ve seen a few which people are buying or ask about them and don’t do their due diligence on these company’s and don’t understand where they’re at. Everyone seems to be a genius in a bull market. No one is always going to agree on certain stocks but there’s so many resources out there that I believe can help you solidify a stock and whether it’s a good buy and even compare them to other stocks. I don’t know, maybe i’m dumb but most of these stocks, I feel as people do not care for where the company is going to be long term, just right now.