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Meet Gene, a NASDAQ Market Maker
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976Ok, now back to our regularly scheduled program. Who's got a good recommenddannobee-9/3/2000
975ok--im to blame also--i think we have turned this into the most boring thread onrichard lionhearted-9/3/2000
974<It all depends on what you want to define the boundaries to be. And it reallbooters-9/3/2000
973Options and futures ARE by definition, a zero sum game. From Barron's Dicdannobee-9/3/2000
972booters, <I>neither any money will have been created nor destroyed. It wiDan Duchardt-9/3/2000
971It's true that money changes hands in the stock market, where buying dollarsTai Jin-9/3/2000
970<i>IMO, for a trader, whether or not the markets are zero-sum or not is noTai Jin-9/3/2000
969Bob, The word "sum" in "zero-sum game" cannot mean anythingApakhabar-9/3/2000
968<neither any money will have been created nor destroyed. It will simply have booters-9/3/2000
967<One statement I have found in a previous post that proposed that the number booters-9/3/2000
966<Lets not forget the MM in this. It is not possible for a stock to trend, no booters-9/3/2000
965That's not true. All contract-based instruments are zero-sum games. That hodli-9/3/2000
964The market is a zero sum game. When a trade is made, money changes hands. The Londo-9/3/2000
963No, options are NOT a zero-sum game! You are ignoring the fact that option contJon Tara-9/3/2000
962<i>Only if you assume that all the people selling the stock that day sold Robert Graham-9/3/2000
961I can pick any two points on just about any chart, and if my timing is correct, Robert Graham-9/3/2000
960<Zero sum is truly only meaningful in a closed system> Not sure I understbooters-9/3/2000
959I would stay away from mutual funds because it's cheaper and management isn&Dominick-9/3/2000
958<i>Keep your head up and have the courage to keep your dreams big. </i&chris--9/2/2000
957A Total Stock Market Index Fund (most major fund families offer one) would be anInvestor2-9/2/2000
956I believe investing a portion of your SS tax in the market would greatly benefitDominick-9/2/2000
955Hey dannobee (and everyone), Like 90% of the rest of Wall Street, I spent the lLPS5-9/2/2000
954Options are a minus-sum game because of commissions paid.Apakhabar-9/2/2000
953<I>or maybe they better keep their online account open at work all day lonDan Duchardt-9/2/2000
952Anything that consistently returns on average, 11.8% per year is not considered dannobee-9/2/2000
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