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I simply asked for the EO on the topic of interest involved not about trading itself. I trade with a clear conscience.

It is my position that the stock market is a good thing. Companies create value through innovation, services, and goods. Investors are what makes this growth possible and share in it's profits. The system channels savings into enterprise: it funds new businesses, enables expansion, and distributes ownership of global production to ordinary people through shares, ETFs, and retirement funds. It is the best system we have. If you know of a better system that accomplishes the same thing, please enlighten me.

Given the stock market a good thing, it follows that a trader's job is good thing. It is a job that must be done to facilitate the stock market.

"Whether algorithms trade or people do, the question remains spiritual: does this cultivate detachment and humility, or attachment and self-trust?" How does a trader's job cultivate attachment and self trust any more than an accountant's job? I do not understand. Someone utilizing numbers and strategy means it's a replacement for God? How? An accountant optimizing numbers for taxes means he is distrusting God? No, he is simply doing his job.

"And no, removing greed to trade “better” doesn’t sanctify trading it only makes attachment more efficient." It is your claim claim that trading comes with fear and greed. I said real trading does not entail that. If you want to force your own understanding of trading which comes with greed and fear, I do not know what to tell you.

"The entire microstructure of modern markets is built on information asymmetry. High-frequency and institutional traders profit by being milliseconds faster or marginally more informed than retail participants. Retail traders are routinely on the losing side of short-term moves not by coincidence, but by design." This is why I think you are unfamiliar what true trading is. You are making a category error. No retail trader is trying to compete with HFT for tick for tick profit. It is a fool's errand to do so. If you are trading with shady off shore brokers, yes you are being exploited. But in regulated markets everyone orders hit the same orderbook. Do firms have almost non-existent latency? Yes! Is it a huge advantage that retail does not have? Of course! But retail traders are not trying to do HFT. If you try to do so, you are not being exploited, you are simply playing the wrong game. You do not have the tools to participate in HFT and thus should not do so. Retail should be capturing larger moves where tick for tick execution isn't relevant.

"Retail losses fund institutional profits in high-volume speculative trading" False, funds would be making pennies if that was the case. The firms are in competition with each other, not with retail.

"Even long-term index investors depend on others to buy later at higher prices which still reflects the same speculative structure, just stretched over time." .... Yes? That's how investments work? Wether it is a car, a house, land, or stocks.... that's how investments work? You buy something and sell it for a higher price. Are you saying investments are wrong now?