The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?
One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.
People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.
I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.