So I go to a flea market and find an Atari 2600 game cartridge and buy it for 5$...I then sell it online for 150$...and this is wrong because I didn't create whirled peas? How do you know the guy who sells me his shares didn't profit from the sale, you assume he took a loss? The stock market is based on one person convinced the stock will move in one direction buying or selling to another, equally convinced it will move the opposite. What reasoning you use to convince yourself which way it is going is entirely up to you. It is my lesson to everyone in the OTC to assume it is a scam that will make it move or not. Even the best intending business attempts often fail and simply get accused of being scams.