l mean how it helps to all, is it helps to poor people? l do not think so. the stock market is damn solution for rich persons

It was initially to help companies to raise cash for growth and expansion.. they offered shares in the company to people who had money available for investment. It has become more speculative as many investors 'gamble' on the future profits of companies. It is NOT just for 'rich' people, anyone with a few hundred dollars is able, if they wish, to purchase shares in companies, receive dividends and hopefully make a gain on their investment.

Well, let me start by saying that those ''rich persons'' - at least some of them - r not as rich as they were sixty days ago. Also, because of the stock market, many companies r not worth nearly as much money as they were sixty days ago. That being said - on to ur qestion. Even though the stock market seems to be very complex in nature & perhaps diffcult to understand it did not start out that way. What is now a truely goblal mess of leveraged, complicated, greed driven fininacal instruments, one of which is a stock, all started out with the best of intentions & was the art of smiplity.

Perhaps the best way to expleain it would be with an example of how thigs got going way back before computers, trading programs, & stock brokers. Let is say u discovered a gold deposit way out in the desert. At first u dug & dug & made a little money. Then one day u hit on the idea that if u were ever gong to make any real mony, u need more euqipment than a shovel & pick. You also need a wagon to haul ore, horses to pull the wagon, & timbers to support the hole u were digging in the ground, Great idea, except u need more money than u had to get these things. An idea developed. If u could get some people to give u some money in return for them getting a little pice of the action, u could expand & make more money for yourself. Now the other pople wer not just going to give u the money with no proof of their ''onwership'' in a small part of the operation, so u gave them a piece of paper that said they owned or held some ''stock'' in a part of the undertaking. You may have to had to get several people to agree to give u some money inorder for u to buy the equipment & goods u needed to expand u business. You still owned most of the business, but a few other people owned a small part too. They had some ''stock'' in what was going on. Now this ment a couple of things. First, if u made any money, u got to keep most but not all of it. A little went to those who had purchased stock in the enterprize. Secondly, if u made a lot of money, that interest or ''stock'' u sold to thsoe few people was worth more to them than they had paid for it. Now if some other people thought u might make even more money than expeted, they might even offer to buy that stock from one of the people u had sold it too. Bingo- a market has been created for the ''stock'' & u had a different stock holder that u started out with. Repeat this process a few thousand times and, as u can see the mushroom effect of selling those few shares of u operation to someone else could get a little out of hand. ''Stock'' had been sold & a market for the instrument had been created all because u needed more operatin capital to do u business.

It helped us all, bucause without the issing of stock to raise the vast amounts of money needed to start up & run a large compay, many thoousands of jobs would never have been created. Before all these people got a job, they were poor. The people who bought the first interest in that first gold mine may have been a bit poor also & it help them gain a better life style. Many, many, many, of the rich persons u refere to got that way by buying small interest in small operations that became the gaint opertains of today.

The problem seems to be that everyone would like to have more money & it seems to never be enough. As the selling of these interest in business got more common they also got more complex & more difficuld for the average person to really understand. You can bu them betting they will go up, u can buy them betting they will go down, u can buy the chance to buy them in the future at a pre-set price, betting they will be worth more than u agreeded to pay for them. Each of these ways can make u a little money.

This expantion of the complexity goes on & on. It got so big that peple got jobs just keeping track of who owned interest in what. People got jobs in giving advise on which interest u shoul buy in what company if u wanted to make some money - & remember everybody wants a little more money & then a little is just not enough.

So, here we r today, We have lap tops & any person in the world cnd decide to buy what ever type interest they think will make them a little money - & they can make the trade for less than 10 bucks.

Now u see u neighbor buy a 1,000 shares in some company for 4 bucks a share. The next day he finds someone who thinks if worth 5 bucks, so the shares r placed in the market again & u neighbor make a cool thousand dollars in 24 hours. You get into the trading business & maybe make a little money youself.

This story could go on for about a hundred pages, so let is cut to the chase. More & more money keeps getting pumped into the stock market, in one sector or another, & the price of the stock keeps going up & up because everybody thinks they r gong to make a little mon

so the fat cats can rip you off and get rich.