Who it is for
Readers studying financial history, investment education, and the chapter’s specific subject—flyer, safe opportunity, dumb luck—will get the most from this section. It is not suitable as a modern trading or investment checklist.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #44052
Conclusion
Profitable Stock Exchange Investments. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
Chapter summary
This chapter examines Conclusion, 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: The contents of this book, including the Wall Street definitions given above, should give the reader a pretty clear idea of what is done on the New York Stock Exchange, and just why and how the blundering public is continually losing its money and giving Wall Street a black name. It should convince you that you cannot afford to attack Wall Street by the methods that have been tried so many thousands of times and foun
Modern reader note
Read this chapter as historical investment education. The market rules, disclosure practices, securities, commissions, interest-rate conditions, and investor protections around flyer, safe opportunity, dumb luck may differ sharply from modern markets.
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