zero-sum game

zero-sum game definition - finance
A trading situation in which profits are limited and wealth is merely shifted around. The futures and options markets are zero-sum games because for every trader who makes money, another trader loses money.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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