Quote Originally Posted by luckme10 View Post
According to the '34 act, a security does not include antiques or collectables. Anyone with a web crawler could chronicle the completed price range of any good or service on ebay or pricewatch, stick it on a website, and profit from speculating on price fluxations; that doesn't make it a security.
Indeed one *could* do it with anything, but it would be considered a misappropriation of handling. I stand by my duck typing; the Zen of Python is clear on such matters.