Network Effect

Apple Investors Were Pinned on Friday

amen brother - stocks go up and down because people buy or sell the stock, not for any other reason. and big money makes a stock go up or down and spins a story around that regardless of the data - and almost 100% of the time, they just pick the opposite direction that the small money players are investing. so if main street is selling, wall street is buying, and if main street is buying, wall street is selling. this is obviously not fair. but is it legal? or, better put, does everyone think that this is a sustainable way for markets to run over the long term? and if not, how can it be policed? in other words, you don't really need a reason to buy or sell a stock. you can do whatever you want. but if that's the case, then this is a zero sum game and a smaller and smaller number of players will take all the money. Kind of like the kid who grabs the ball on the playground and goes and plays in the corner by himself. he has the ball, but no one to play with. if you play this scenario out, at some point, wall street wont have anyone to play with, right?