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A comment on Ask HN: Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is zero-sum?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is ze... by hashtable on Thursday May 15, 2008 @07:41PM (#191192)
But wouldn't the lose leave the game, leaving the previous winners to battle amongst themselves?
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Re:Ask HN: Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is ze... by mattmaroon on Thursday May 15, 2008 @07:55PM (#191211)
Nope. Any game involving variance allows one to chalk up bad results to bad luck for a very long period of time. And new losers join every day.
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