Are Traders Ethical

I like that.

 

You can call it whatever you like, but I find it hard to call it a "draw" when you have never even taken your crayons out of the box.


777

 

Turn of phrase does not an argument make. You understand that, don't you?

 

Do you?

Does anyone see an argument or counter argument in any of these statements made by you in this thread?

777

 

You can willfully ignore the argument all you like but it doesn't make you right.

 

I didn't use any big words. I analyzed your false criticisms. What shortcoming??

 

What argument? Thus far you haven't made one that I can see?

You have made statements of opinion, and assumptions of the meaning of what people are saying, but I don't see any constructed argument at all from your side to support your statements or assumptions.

And if you are true to form, your response to this post will be something like:

If you think there is an argument here, I am missing it entirely, as I suspect any other reasonable person is:

I don't' know what you mean by "evidence" in the above statement, but most people of reason will accept any argument as valid (not necessarily correct, but valid) if it conforms to the principles of argumentation. A constructed argument exists when someone puts forth a proposition and then follows up that statement with an offer of proof, that proof doesn't need to be actual, but reasonable in the abstract where tactile, visible, auditory, olfactory or palatable proof is unavailable. I have offered up reasons to support my position, but you have offered up none.

You offer up no proof of anything but the games of equivocation and opinion stating you seem to be fond of playing.

You may indeed view yourself as the head of a household, a paterfamilias, but that house that you rule over appears to me to be a garden variety nut house.




777

 

Very well said. Yes, trading is ethical. Financial markets are free. Some want to invest, some want to minimize risk, and traders want to take the risk. We make markets more liquid, spreads are thiner, so investors can invest more at lower transaction costs. Funds can hedge more.

We may also ask: Are Insurers Ethical? They make ( or lose ) money by taking risk... and their clients are minimizing risk.

 

have you heard of commissions(vig)?? hence not a true zero sum game....Have you ever been gross positve and net negative...oh i forgot you only paper trade you dont pay commissions...sorry

 

Atlas Shrugged. This book sure made me want to be a trader. [/B][/QUOTE]

http://www.turtletrader.com/atlas_shrugged.html