Anton C.

“When you consider the stock market as a venue for producing wealth, you can concentrate on financial strategies that will help you achieve this goal.” Was the stock market really originally designed to create wealth for “investors” or was it ingeniously invented to make money for the “inventors”? As you yourself mentioned, the stock market is often seen as “some kind of a casino”. Did the casinos put up their business to lose money to the gamblers? I don’t think so! So did the stock market pioneers (and the present operators as well) think of giving up potential wealth they could gain themselves in favour of others? Or is it through the money of other people investing that they create wealth for themselves as well? It seems unlikely that they also provide themselves the opportunity to create wealth by investing in the market they created. Unless, like a horse-racing track owner who rigs a race to make money on a certain horse, the stock market operators manipulate the prices of stocks, which seems such a difficult job to pull off. There must be a trade secret somewhere there, isn’t there?