And ideal effective market must have a zero margins. That's normal, what the economy strives for, what customers want.
If some market has large margins, it means it has some inefficiencies.
Ideally yes, in practice it needs to return more than just parking your money in a savings account.
It is impossible to have (actual) zero margins.
Ideally yes, in practice it needs to return more than just parking your money in a savings account.