Is trading ethical? Was it ethical for my employer to work me nearly to death? There were eleven of us in my department and they cut us down to two. My health has been destroyed and my employer has totally cut me off. The employee has been broken. No problem. We will just hire another at lower cost.
There is nothing more ethical and FAIR than trading the financials. If it seems unethical to anyone, they should stay out of the markets and buy CD's for 5.5% yield.
I bet those that are profitable think the markets are ethical, and the losers think the markets are unethical and so unfair. It's not fair, boo hoo. Those other traders stole my money out from under me.
I fear someday there will be even more restrictive laws against trading to 'protect' the losers. Maybe they will restrict trading to only 'investment' type
trading as in being able to only buy and hold one stock for 5,10,30 years, and if you sell early you will be penalized 50% of profits if there are any profits and if no profits, sucks to be you.
Is trading ethical? Some studies say that prescription drugs kill as many as 400,000 people every year and injure many times more and no one even questions it.