In the stock market,for someone to make money, does that mean someone has to lose money?

Question

When I am buy stock at a lower price point than it was trading a 1 day or week, month or year later, does it mean that somebody during that same time frame is losing the difference?

In: Economics

Answer 1

Whoever buys the share off you ‘loses’ the money, the same as any transaction.

If a wholesaler buys 1000 apples off a farmer for 1 dollar each then later sells them for 2 dollar each would you say the farmer lost 1000 dollars? Would you say each customer lost money per apple?