Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
I WENT to work when I was
just out of grammar school. I got a job as quotation-board boy in a
stock-brokerage office. I was quick at figures. At school I did
thre (more...)
BETWEEN the discovery that
the Cosmopolitan Stock Brokerage Company was ready to beat me by
foul means if the killing handicap of a three-point margin and a
point (more...)
It takes a man a long time
to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are
two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock
marke (more...)
Well, I went home. But the
moment I was back I knew that I had but one mission in life and
that was to get a stake and go back to Wall Street. That was the
only p (more...)
THE average ticker hound or
as they used to call him, tape-worm
goes wrong, I suspect, as
much from over specialization as from
anything else. It means a (more...)
IN the spring of 1906 I was
in Atlantic City for a short vacation.
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I NEVER hesitate to tell a
man that I am bullish or bearish. But
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THE Union Pacific incident
in Saratoga in the summer of 1906
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CRUISED off the coast of
Florida. The fishing was good. I was
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THE recognition of our own
mistakes should not benefit us any
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AND now I'll get back to
October, 1907. I bought a yacht
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NOT long after I closed my
July cotton deal more successfully
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THERE I was, once more
broke, which was bad, and dead wrong
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IT has always rankled in my
mind that after I left Williamson
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AMONG the hazards of
speculation the happening of the
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TIPS! How people want tips!
They crave not only to get them
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ONE of my most intimate
friends is very fond of telling
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HISTORY repeats itself all
the time in Wall Street. Do you
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DO not know when or by whom
the word "manipulation"
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MYSELF never spoke to any
of the great stock manipulators
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AM well aware that all
these generalities do not sound
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ONE day Jim Barnes, who not
only was one of my principal
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SPECULATION in stocks will
never disappear. It isn't
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THE public always wants to
be told. That is what makes
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