Good awareness and insights!

I have once heard about different animals in stock market and how many are there. 1% bulls who pump price. 1% bears who dump the price. 0.1% whales the institutional investors and hedge funds. Remaining are pigs 97.9% who "follow the trend" and put "avid stock trader" in their bio also follow dumb tiktok insta reels.

Tldr: "Retail investors are dumb money"

There are media houses marketing programs funded by large hedge funds to attract retail towards derivatives market so that large house can pray on liquidity.
Unless you're institution trader folks don't play around stocks derivatives it's Lava you'll get burn

Every business is a gamble. A guy opens a hotel, he thinks a certain number of people will eat that day/ week/year and plans things. It's a gamble. The only difference between a trader and other business is the timeline. In trading loss happens faster, in other business in happens over days/week/year.

We Indians have a tendency to demonize or make a god out of everyting/ everyone.

It's a Zero sum game, they cumulatively are contributing for few of us making profits 🥳