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This chapter examines IX. Market Movements of Securities, using the author’s early-twentieth-century investment framework to explain how investors were expected to judge security quality, income, risk, and market conditions. It opens from the chapter’s own discussion: There is no question connected with the investment of money more important than the ability to judge whether general market conditions are favorable for the purchase of securities. After learning how to judge the value of every form of investment, a man may still be unsuccessful in the investment of money unless he acquires also a firm grasp upon the general principles which control the price movements of securities.
Readers studying financial history, investment education, and the chapter’s specific subject—market fluctuation, liquidity, loaning rate of free capital—will get the most from this section. It is not suitable as a modern trading or investment checklist.
Read this chapter as historical investment education. The market rules, disclosure practices, securities, commissions, interest-rate conditions, and investor protections around market fluctuation, liquidity, loaning rate of free capital may differ sharply from modern markets.