Investments always have an exit time frame; if you never end up exchanging them for something else, then their worth is as meaningless as if the price were zero

Investments always have an exit time frame; if you never end up exchanging them for something else, then their worth is as meaningless as if the price were zero. This is as true of a business as it is of stock or currency trading. I look at market trading similarly to competitive games of strategy like Chess now, because they share this nature of having to carefully exchange resources over time to achieve an increasingly advantageous position.