RE:An Old Boomer WarningI agree with what you said. But you seem to imply that the only way to make a profit with stocks is by prediciting what will go up and what will go down. That isn't the case. More fundamentally, you make money with stocks by receiving dividends. If the prospect of future dividends go up, then you will most likely also make capital gains as you seem to be chasing. But at the most basic level, it is the dividends and the prospect of future dividends that make you gain or lose money.
Yes some stocks, like Berkshire Hathaway don't pay dividends and you can make profits from them. But the reason why the price of BRK.A is so high is because if its CEO decided to pay a $10,000 dividend, then each share holder would receive a $10,000 dividend, no problem. If GME wanted to pay a dividend of $1, you would have to ask yourself if that puts GME at risk of going bankrupt.