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

Not in a million years

I buy it for $1 and sell it for $2. Who then sells it for $3 and so on. Everyone is getting rich!!

The stock market is not zero-sum.