If you really think about it, you will discover an extraordinary range of life's situations that are inherently risky. Nearly everything someone does is some type of gambling. Even with such mundane act of getting up and going to work, increases one's chances of being killed in Uemalp published a blog post transportation accident. In face of today and everything you know about investing, be it in business, an asset class (stocks, bonds, real estate, cash and commodities), or index fund, even in its most basic element, it is nothing more than "betting" that someday tomorrow will probably be better with pleasant expected returns on investment; or possibly not. There is just one big risk you should avoid and that's the risk of doing nothing and not taking your chance.

Come to look-at it in face value, investing in any money market really is, legalized gambling, per se.