308: What's the difference between Trading & Investing?
Aug 18, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
Send us Fan Mail What's the difference between investing and trading? And does the distinction matter from a biblical perspective? In this episode…
Aug 18, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
Send us Fan Mail What's the difference between investing and trading? And does the distinction matter from a biblical perspective? In this episode…
Tim RussellHostTyler RutherfordHostDrew GeiseyHost
So what that means is that we're focused on fundamentals, right? We're focused on what is a company earning? What's its value creation? Who's managing it? How is its operating practices? And is it growing year over year, decade over decade? And then we put capital to work in these companies because it benefits the broader economy.
I will acknowledge that, but it's not truly long-term investing because trading is not looking, it doesn't care about what the company makes.
It only cares about what other people think about that company over a very short period of time.
So they'll buy, not because they like the company, but because they like the momentum that the stock price of that company is enjoying, and they'll buy low, or maybe they'll buy high and hope it goes higher, and they'll simply ride the price movement over a short period of time.
You can do day trading, where you buy and sell within a given day, or you can do swing trading, and swing trading is where I buy it today and I might sell it in a couple days, a week.
You're probably more interested in what do the charts look like? And does this look like a good entry point or not a good entry point? I will say this.
There are people out there who, as a living, kind of it's that person you talk about sitting behind the computer watching the red bars and the green bars and deciding when to enter and when to exit a stock.
So what that means is that we're focused on fundamentals, right? We're focused on what is a company earning? What's its value creation? Who's managing it? How is its operating practices? And is it growing year over year, decade over decade? And then we put capital to work in these companies because it benefits the broader economy.
I will acknowledge that, but it's not truly long-term investing because trading is not looking, it doesn't care about what the company makes.
It only cares about what other people think about that company over a very short period of time.
So they'll buy, not because they like the company, but because they like the momentum that the stock price of that company is enjoying, and they'll buy low, or maybe they'll buy high and hope it goes higher, and they'll simply ride the price movement over a short period of time.
You can do day trading, where you buy and sell within a given day, or you can do swing trading, and swing trading is where I buy it today and I might sell it in a couple days, a week.
You're probably more interested in what do the charts look like? And does this look like a good entry point or not a good entry point? I will say this.
There are people out there who, as a living, kind of it's that person you talk about sitting behind the computer watching the red bars and the green bars and deciding when to enter and when to exit a stock.
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