Winners and Losers of th Zero-Sum game

[Don4 10]

What type of trader are you? Who is profiting from your loses?

 

 

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1705&stc=1&d=1181692931

zerosum.pdf

[Nick1984 10]

wow great read Don, thanks for that!

[Don4 10]

Your welcome!!!

[MrPaul 10]

great post thanks for that Don

[Don4 10]

Hope you enjoyed it MrPaul!

[Guest cooter]

Nice find, Don.

 

Additional links to all of Prof Harris' academic papers can also be found here:

 

USC Professor Larry Harris's Academic Papers

 

Again, thanks for sharing.

[brownsfan019 17]

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

 

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[dalby 10]

i'm sorry, but i got as far as the first sentence. which is simply false.

 

it is NOT a zero sum game (trading) unless you are talking futures or options. stocks are not.

 

he qualifies that with a "in respect to underlying fundamental values" which is a hedge and still WRONG.

 

stocks are constantly MISPRICED. a good trader/investor can find stocks that are priced low relative to their fundamental value, buy them and sell them higher. there is NOT an equal amount of money lost and won. it is NOT zero sum.

 

and the idea that people can be rational and equally adept at determining the fundamental is absurd. about as logical as "efficient market hypothesis" which is what i would expect from an academic.