moreover, it is not a fair game for more than 99% of the people playing stocks on the market. It is more and more like a casino with so many hiding tricks, partially brought by advancements of technology.
I hope someone can provide a different view of the things because I am planning to pick up stock trading after retirement. You can imagine what it would look like without improved skills, with more money, and with more time.
Investing is an interesting game, achieving average result is very easy, but trying beating average even by little bit is extremely hard. There's nothing wrong about putting money into indexing.