onlinesportspoker: which percentage of investors in the stock markets in time frame of 1998-2008 really “won” any profits?

Friday, 26 April 2013

which percentage of investors in the stock markets in time frame of 1998-2008 really “won” any profits?

which percentage of investors in the stock markets in time frame of 1998-2008 really “won” any profits?

if looked at the larger time frame of 1999-2001-2008……which percentage of “investors” or people that just gave their surplus income to “brokers” really “won” any money in long term?

and how much?

how different really than a “lottery pool”…where only a few winners are going to win anything?? (and only difference maybe is the “winners” coerced their ability to win..?)

Best answer:

Answer by MBA seeker
The question is too broad to have any meaningful answers.

However, if I were to take a guess, I would say around 25%?

EDIT**
True, if the market remains the same all the time, then you are right, there will be a minimum amount of winners, because in order to be a winner, there has to be a loser, so they even out. Even the winners like you said have to pay a fee to the brokers.

However, unlike a lottery, the market has growth. The lottery only gets bigger as people give more money into it. The market ideally can grow. So during a good time frame, it can grow and everyone wins.

A better example of the stock market is kind of like a poker game. If one player wins, another player has to lose.

What do you think? Answer below!