### Comment:
Is the stock market considered a Zero sum game though? Or is more wealth coming in; than coming out? It's not 'free money' because it came out of someone's pocket.

### REPLY:
that's a touchy subject. it isn't for specifically stocks because of underlying values and assets. if you win trading just shares it doesn't mean somebody had to lose.  plus profits grow, dividends get passed out, inflation and quantitative easing also flex prices. 
  
 Options themselves are technically not zero sum either because of how the system of market makers and options writing works. most of the time 'zero sum' isn't even applied to them.

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