When counseling clients, financial advisors often draw a distinction between investing and speculation. Investing, they say, generally involves consistently buying into a broadly diversified swath of the market and letting compounding interest do its work over the course of decades. "Real investing is boring. It's like watching paint dry," Ramit Sethi , author of "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" told CNBC Make It in July 2023. Speculation, meanwhile, is nothing if not exciting: A speculator buys