Manipulation: By creation of false appearances, 22
Margins: Necessary to reasonable safety, 163
required by scale order operations, 164
use and abuse of, 12
Market Movements: principal for ten years, 168
Money conditions: as a factor of speculation, 59
Periodicity: unreliable as basis of speculation, 35, 69
Pig Iron: Production in U. S., 29
Prices:
“Composite” stock, 136
corn, 146
cotton, 156
ordinary swing of in speculative cycle, 113
wheat, 146
Presidential contest: Influence on prices, 81
Privileges, 89
“Puts,” explained, 90
Railroad: Basic values of, 104
Rights: How to compute value of, 109
Securities: Entire list should be studied, 166
railroad stocks the soundest, 166
selection of, 124
undigested, 108
Speculation: Cycles of, 21
possibilities of, 14
preliminary hard work needed, 17
Stocks: Borrowing and lending, 117
cycles of Speculation in, 133
“Straddles,” explained, 92
Tariff agitation: effect on speculation, 81
“Tips”: Operations based on them disastrous, 172
Trading: Best method of, 111, 172
hypothetical, 15
scalping, 120
Wheat: Chart, 147
prices, 146