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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I agree, many Americans are in the market. However, the lion's share of Americans are not. Moreover, it's my understanding individual investors mostly lose money in the stock market.
i.e., individual investors rarely beat the market.
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Well the people who matter, the people with money i.e the workforce and people with stock portfolios, own stocks. But yeah, the people who lose money are the day traders. What they are doing is just gambling / buying options / using leverage on whether a stock will go up.