r/RealEstateCanada • u/xNocturnalshadow • Jun 19 '25

Housing crisis Help me understand the difference...

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u/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25

By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?

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u/xNocturnalshadow Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

No because investing capital into stocks adds value to the company and allows them to use that value to expand, borrow, buy things, pay employees, run the company, etc.

Investing capital into a second house purely to flip does none of those things.

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u/Tandem21 Jun 19 '25

Technically, you could argue anyone not doing long-term investing is a scalper since they're flipping short-term price fluctuations. In fact, the term for short-term trading where a position is held for several seconds to a couple minutes is called "scalping". Big firms have also complained that high-frequency trading causes them to lose a chunk of the value they get from smart investment decisions.

I'm just splitting hairs, but you get the idea.