Of the stock market and Playwin

I love the stock market. Especially since I haven’t bought or sold a share in my life. When the market crashes (it’s crashed a few times in my lifetime), I’m Mr. Cool. Doesn’t bother me.And I watch friends and colleagues, all intelligent people, in a mess when the stock market crashes. And I wonder how they fall for the mug’s game that it is.At a basic level, when there are so many millions of ‘experts’ on the markets earning fat salaries, why in heaven can’t they predict what will happen?