some weird moral questions...

[.KeviN.]

Real basic but I'm in a rush...

Say you sell a stock, now what happens when you sell a stock it means that someone else is actually buying it right? It's an exchange. Now say you're stock is losing value and through some homework you learn that chances are if you hold onto in you're going to lose $$. If you're right, and you sell it, chances are whoever is buying it is going to lose $$.

The situation above is similar to poker. Now the thing that's been bothering me about playing is that I am taking $$ from other people, that's it. I'm basing my income on the losses of others. The better they play, the worse for me, and vice versa. Now how is trading different? You're investing yea, but you are buying and selling peices of stock to other people. The whole point of selling is that you believe you have a losing stock and you want to sell it to somebody else before you lose any more money. You're gain, their loss.


This is a pretty ridiculous post I know but I'd like to get some thoughts and elaborations.