Playing the stock market is just one facet of investing, and a widely-discouraged one at that (e.g. market timing). Long-term investments favour index trackers so that you can gain from the performance of the market as a whole.

Hmm... this is that Pharmaceuticals guy who got arrested for securities fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli

Not saying that's bad or good... just interesting.