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As a person who hates doing finances, I couldn't agree more by ravenium
I think where I get a sour taste in my mouth is where people single track stocks and brag about individual sales. Those people, IMO, are either lucky, fortunate, or benefit from insider trading. It's what I think of when I think of "pfft, stocks are legalized gambling!"
You can probably predict some of that, I'll bet - for example, I'd bet you $5 my former company's stock will go down 10-20 pts the day after an ESPP buy, and shoot up after quarterly results.
I just feed my investment guy according to an appropriate risk plan and smile/nod that it seems reasonable. Then I bitch to high heaven every March as he gives me a 1099-DIV that blows a hole in my tax return (how do people accommodate for these, btw? Just save up?)