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Accidents: effect of on stock prices, 84
Averages: Barometer of, 110
Bank Statement, 59, 125
British investment bonds: Prices of, 45
Business Depression: Effects of on rails and industrials, 105
“Calls,” explained, 89
Charts: “Composite Common”, 137
corn prices, 149
cotton prices, 154
wheat prices, 147
“Composite common”: range of, 133
Corn: Area limited, 151
chart, 149
prices, 146
risen more than wheat, 148
Cotton: Chart, 154
crops in bales, 157
cycles of speculation in, 155
prices, 156
Credits: Expansion of ignored, 75
Crises: Indications of, 112
principal in last century, 24
Crops and Crop Failures:
damage issue not to be ignored, 123
importance of, 82
Dividends: adverse effect on the short seller, 101
Dow, Charles H.:
rule as to margins necessary, 165
Fixed Charges: As factor of safety, 114
important to investor, 116
percentage of in various railroads, 115
Gambling transactions: Percentage against the speculator, 9
Gold production:
effect in speculative commodities, 53
effect on common stocks of railroads, 49
effect on securities having a fixed rate of income, 43
effect on stocks of industrials, 52
influence of on prices, 39
Grain: Cycles of speculation in, 145