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<p>[QUOTE="rush2112, post: 1282141, member: 25570"]What I am cautioning against are the folks who believe the stock market is a scam and that anybody who invests in stocks will lose their money. This is uninformed nonsense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>You are correct, not everyone who invests in the stock market loses money. </p><p>But can you tell us what percentage are winners and what percentage are losers? </p><p>I am willing to bet that most are losers except for a few who win with an unfair advantage. </p><p>We had a stock up here in Canada, Nortel Networks, that went from $124.00 per share to $.39 before being delisted from the TSX. The former CEO did ok, he walked away with $135 million before the company went bankrupt. Needless to say, a lot of simple investors lost huge sums of money.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, the stock market is not a scam but a legal way of a company taking your money then doing what ever they want with it, usually paying themselves big salaries and bonuses at the investors expense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rush2112, post: 1282141, member: 25570"]What I am cautioning against are the folks who believe the stock market is a scam and that anybody who invests in stocks will lose their money. This is uninformed nonsense.[/QUOTE] You are correct, not everyone who invests in the stock market loses money. But can you tell us what percentage are winners and what percentage are losers? I am willing to bet that most are losers except for a few who win with an unfair advantage. We had a stock up here in Canada, Nortel Networks, that went from $124.00 per share to $.39 before being delisted from the TSX. The former CEO did ok, he walked away with $135 million before the company went bankrupt. Needless to say, a lot of simple investors lost huge sums of money. No, the stock market is not a scam but a legal way of a company taking your money then doing what ever they want with it, usually paying themselves big salaries and bonuses at the investors expense.[/QUOTE]
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