The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.
He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they
started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the boss, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that my boss has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when my boss returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."
The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. The assistant promptly disappeared, the boss never returned, and there were worthless monkeys everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
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