Compuware (CPWR)

you stated : If you buy Google at $10 and it runs to $10,000 then it reesprents a growth in your assests, but not a growth in someone elsee2€™s liability But you failed to reach the conclusion of selling the stock at 10,000 and taking 10k out of the pot thus resulting in a decrease in the pot size, which means that if all the investors want to cash out the pot will be given to them minus the 10,000 dollars you took out..which means it IS a zero sum game because the last to get out gets what's left over after you've taken the 10 k out.It is a growth in YOUR asset, but a decrease in someone else's ONLY if no other investor comes in to replenish that 10k you took out of the pot.example: 10 thousand investors put in 1 dollar in the pot thus the pot is $10,000 .now, the stock is worth 2 dollars so 10 thousand more investors put in 2 dollars each putting in $20,000 in the pot the pot is now worth $30,000 and you have a stock that's worth 2 dollars. So you take your profit of 1 dollar..meaning you take out 2 dollars doubling your investment only you did not take out 1 dollar..you took out 2..meaning that dollar had to come out of somewhere..and it did it came from the new investors buying the stock at 2 dollars now unless new investors come in, the stock will be worth what it is..minus the 2 dollars you took out therefore, one of the new investors has just lost 1 dollar.

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