I’m not an expert in stocks but before all this derivatives BS didn’t people buy stocks in companies that were good so they could share in the profits? You would buy a stock to get paid a dividend and eventually when you had enough stock in good companies you could retire off the dividends.

Now the only profits are made when the price of the stock goes up.

It seems with all these stock trading apps a lot of small money is being invested that the dark pool traders can eventually steal.

The market is rigged.