just one more example and sorry if you took an offense
i sincerely apologize.
Say on Friday I got 250k free options because I bought 500k in SPP, new shares float.
I sold them all and got 5000 cash.
The SP on the shares stayed the same.
Now where is the zero some sum. Free to me but I am 5000 richer. Somebody put in extra 5k to the market.
Not zero sum, I am sorry.
