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Project Gutenberg #73647. Public-domain market psychology and financial history text; not investment advice. Chinese and Spanish complete 23/23.
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THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOKTHE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPECULATION: THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN STOCK MARKET TRANSACTIONSTHE PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE OF THE STOCK TICKERTHE DISCONCERTING EFFECT OF SUDDEN LOSSES AND GAINSRETIRED BUSINESS MEN IN THE STOCK MARKETSTOCK MARKET TRANSACTIONS APART FROM GAMBLINGTHE STOCK MARKET PRODUCES A NEW PHENOMENON—TURNS WORLD-WIDE DISASTER INTO LOCAL PROSPERITYNOBODY LOVES A BEARFRENZIED SPECULATION IS THE RANKEST FORM OF GAMBLING; IT IS A PERILOUS INDULGENCETHE DANGERS OF INVERTED PYRAMIDSTHE LURE OF THE COPPER BOOM—AND BOGUS SECURITIESTHE PERILS OF OVER-ACQUISITIVENESS—THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN SPECULATIONTHEY ALL RESOLVE, BUT THEY ALL GO BACKA NEW KNIGHT-ERRANT IN SPECULATIONSOME SIGNS ARE COMPREHENDIBLE; OTHERS ARE HARD TO INTERPRETNONE ARE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO REFUSE TO SEE—NONE SO FOOLISH AS THOSE WHO SCOFF AT WISE COUNSELEVEN THE STOCK MARKET HAS ITS FARCICAL SIDESPECULATORS ARE SLAVES OF SENTIMENTTHERE IS BUT ONE WAY TO BEAT THE STOCK MARKET; THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF BEING BEATEN BY ITTHE STOCK EXCHANGE IS A MONUMENT OF BUSINESS INTEGRITYBOOKS TEACH WISDOM, BUT EXPERIENCE IS A MORE PRACTICAL INSTRUCTORWHIMS AND FALLACIES IN SPECULATIONPROBLEMS DEFYING PRESENT SOLUTION ARE BETTER DEFERRED TO THE FUTURE