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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals
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To: Jon Tara who wrote (7950)4/23/2000 2:10:00 PM
From: Tai Jin  Read Replies (2) of 18137
 
Clearly, in a market where stocks only go up then everyone makes money and no one loses. But in a market where stocks can go down then some people will definitely lose money. A zero-sum market assumes that there is no net inflow/outflow of money into/from the market. I don't think this is ever the case, even in the long term. In a bull market, money is flowing into the markets and most people are making money but some people will still lose money. In a bear market, money is flowing out of the markets and many people are losing money, but some people will make money. In either market, the gains are not equal to the losses, as a zero-sum model would imply.

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