Stocks have never been a case of winners being kings and losers being bandits; stocks are a collective of the masses. Just like issues that resonate strongly with the public will cause stocks to go down, if the masses do not express their concerns and continue to sustain reality, stocks will go up. Stocks that are often discussed will experience long-term fluctuations; this is a history that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. There are only two types of people who are suited for playing the stock market: the foolish and the smart. The foolish are a result of the trend, while the smart are qualified speculators. The difference between the former and the latter is that the former knows that time is not important, so winning or losing doesn't matter, whereas the latter prefers to control time and thus is controlled by it, and will never win. As for ordinary people, they are like those masses, spending their entire lives not understanding what they really want to do or what they are doing.