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Ways to make money in the stock market

- Own a trading floor

- Become a stockbroker

- Become a market maker

- Sell books on the subject

- Work for a financial institution

- Buy S&P500 or similar index fund with low expense ratio, sit back and relax for 30 years or so while collecting dividends

If you bought the Nikkei within the last 25 years or the S&P within the last 15 you're about as likely to be down as up, even including dividends.