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Stock trading, by definition, is the matching of independent offers (buy and sell) on the stock exchange. Legal Pathology: Financial supervision systems license a model in which the broker becomes the counterparty to your transaction. This creates a direct conflict of interest: your profit is the broker's loss. Systemic Manipulations: Even licensed brokers can legally (under the guise of "liquidity") employ mechanisms that harm clients: Stop-Loss Hunting: "Spikes" on the chart that cut out defensive orders. Slippage: Executing orders at worse prices. Spread Widening: Artificially inflating transaction costs. Supervision Fiction: A financial license does not guarantee integrity, only that the firm meets formal requirements. Supervision allows a "casino" model under the banner of a "brokerage house," which destroys trust in the market. Lack of certainty: While the system allows it, an investor can never be 100% sure what's happening "u...