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Old 07-22-2005, 03:52 PM
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Default Re: Buy and Hold vs Market Timing

A Zero Sum Game is a situation where one participants gain results from another persons loss. The net change in total wealth among participants is zero.

Options and Futures contracts are a zero sum game, as is gambling.

The stock market however, is not a zero sum game, because wealth can be created in the stock market (thru increased market cap).
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