INDEX
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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
- Legislation: As a market factor, 77
- 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