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Duncan on Investment and Speculation in Stocks and Shares

March 17, 2010

INTRODUCTION IN presenting this work to the public our object has been to explain the technicalities of the Stock Exchange, and to clear up such difficulties as have hitherto lain in the paths of inexperienced investors. We show the principles upon which a capitalist, large or small, can obtain the highest return for his...

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Cordingley’s Guide to the Stock Exchange

March 17, 2010

CORDINGLEY’S GUIDE TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE – BEING AN EXPLANATION OF EVERY MODE OF SPECULATING IN STOCKS AND SHARES, AND ILLUSTRATING THE MANNER IN WHICH TRANSACTIONS ARE CARRIED OUT Please Activate the Full Screen Mode for Better Viewing Pleasure (2nd button from the left) LINK http://bikibook.com/books/cordingleys-guide-to-stock-exchange/ EMBED

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Banks’ Cash Reserves – Threadneedle street; a reply to “Lombard street” (by the late Mr. Walter Bagehot)

March 15, 2010

INTRODUCTION. There are times when a merchant will make almost any sacrifice to obtain ready money. He has entered into no rash speculations, and has only to meet the ordinary legitimate demands of his business, but in order to do so he is suddenly called upon to make a heavy and unexpected loss. To...

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Arbitrage in Bullion, Coins, Bills, Stocks, Shares and Options by Henry Deutsch

March 15, 2010

PREFACE THE literature on the subject of the present book is remarkably meagre. We look practically in vain for any book in any language treating of the highly-important and likewise interesting subject of the transfer of money from one nation to another. The fact is all the more astonishing, as Arbitrage is of the...

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A Simple Theory of Financial Ratios as Predictors of Failure by Jarrod W. Wilcox

March 15, 2010

ABSTRACT This paper presents a simple, intuitive theory of business risk. The results are used to explain empirical observations of Beaver on the power of various financial ratios to predict failure of firms, and to hypothesize improved predictive ratios for use in selecting attractive risk situations and in determining appropriate risk premiums. LINK http://bikibook.com/books/a-simple-theory-of-financial-ratios-as-predictors-of-failure/...

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Common Sense in Stock Speculation

March 15, 2010

Chances for Success in the Stock Market Stock market speculation, notwithstanding all the calumnies and maledictions heaped upon it since its inception, is steadily increasing throughout the length and breadth of the land. There is no gainsaying the fact that speculation has been the cause of many a lost fortune, but one should not...

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Analysis of American and Canadian Securities for the Use of English Investors by Kenneth Ffarington Bellairs

March 9, 2010

There is little doubt that the years 1874-5 will witness some new form of mania for the British Investing Public ; and it is in the belief that more attention will be directed to the securities of America, that this small work has been compiled. English railways have been carried to such a high...

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American Securities – the Causes Influencing Investment and Speculation and the Fluctuations in Values by William Grosvenor

March 9, 2010

INTRODUCTION The extraordinary movements of the stock market during the year 1884 invite a careful inquiry. Prices dropped lower than at any other time since the resumption of specie payments, losing in a few weeks well-nigh half of the marvelous gain which had been realized during two years and a half. Failures of extraordinary...

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A Plain Guide to Investment and Finance by Thomas Emley Young

March 8, 2010

INTRODUCTION The object of this book is simple and direct. All people need to invest their savings from time to time. They are in the way of knowing, from professional the book. experience in finance, what securities are best worthy of attention at certain periods ; and what should be avoided, and why. Most...

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American and Foreign Investment Bonds by William L. Raymond

March 3, 2010

PREFACE This book has been put together from talks given to the writer’s salesmen. The aim has been to discuss clearly and simply the leading classes of investment bonds. In trying to carry out this aim, the writer has confined himself mostly to a discussion of the factors entering into the intrinsic value of...

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Wall Street and The Country A Study of Recent Financial Tendencies – By Charles A. Conant

March 2, 2010

PREFACE The essays contained- in this volume were written for the purpose of setting forth the magnitude of the problems presented by the modern tendency to capitalization and of removing misapprehensions on the subject which seem to have obtained a lodgment in the minds of a certain portion of the public. In a country...

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ABC of Options and Arbitrage by S.A Nelson

February 25, 2010

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Definition of Stock Options 11 CHAPTER II. The Practice of Option Trading 14 CHAPTER III. American Contract Forms 18 CHAPTER IV. American Options or Privileges 22 CHAPTER V. Value of Options 30 CHAPTER VI. Castelli and Higgins on Options 44 CHAPTER VII. Arbitrage 51 CHAPTER VIII. Arbitraging in Rights 60 CHAPTER...

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War and Lombard Street by Hartley Withers

February 21, 2010

CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE MORATORIUM Suddenness of the crisis — Its severity increased by the strength of London’s position — Credit and civilization — Moratorium defined CHAPTER II THE INTERNAL PROBLEM Effect of war on public mind — Hoarding — Jump in Bank rate — Action of joint stock banks — Their uncomfortable position...

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A Century of Finance : Martin’s History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets

February 12, 2010
A Century of Finance : Martin’s History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR The present edition of this work covers 1 00 years of the History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets ; naturally sparse of material in the earlier dates, but the record is complete ; and it will be noted (see page 9, and tables pages 94-183) that there were...

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Bank Loans and Stock Exchange Speculation

May 31, 2009
Bank Loans and Stock Exchange Speculation

Attention has been repeatedly called to the vicious circle in which the American money market moves; how the volume of banking credit is rigidly inelastic, being determined as to circulation by bonds and securities and as to loans and discounts by a fixed ratio to legal reserve; how the surplus funds which piled up...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse...

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The New York Stock Exchange; a Discussion of the Business Done, Its Relation to Other Business, To Investment, Speculation and Gambling by H S Martin

FOREWORD The New York Stock Exchange can The be said to have been begun 125 years. Beginning ago 100 years of which it has...

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The Essential Features of Securities by Byron Webber Holt

What Our Problem Is There are available for purchase or sale securities of the widest possible variety, issued by countless corporations, municipalities, states, nations,...

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Twenty-One Years in the Boston Stock Market by Joseph Gregory Martin

PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston...

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The Stock Market Barometer : A Study of Its Forecast Value Based on Charles H. Dow’s Theory of the Price Movement

CYCLES AND STOCK MARKET RECORDS AN English economist whose unaffected humanity always made him remarkably readable, the late William Stanley Jevons, propounded the theory...

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