ONE-WAY POCKETS: The Book of Books on Wall Street Speculation
By Don Guyon
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ONE-WAY POCKETS - Don Guyon
ONE-WAY POCKETS:
THE BOOK OF BOOKS ON
WALL STREET SPECULATION
By Don Guyon
New York
ONE-WAY POCKETS: The Book of Books on Wall Street Speculationwas originally published by Capstone Publishing Company in 1917. Cover © 2005 Cosimo, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without prior written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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ISBN: 978-1-61640-975-3
Table of Contents
ONE-WAY POCKETS
The Ninety-five Per Cent
A Speculative Delusion
Detecting Bad
Buying and Selling
Losses in War Brides
What the Order Book Showed
Buying on the Way Down
Waves of Public Buying and Selling
The Same Speculative Errors
Coppering
the Public
Determining the Trend
How a Bull Market Starts
The Bell Cow
Anent Order Cancellations
The Menace of News
The Correct Use of Stop Orders
Seeing the First Reaction Through
The First Selling Point
The Great Distributive Stage
When and What to Sell Short
Covering Shorts
Too Soon
The Effect of Short Sales
Playing for a Pull
The Method and the Man
ONE-WAY POCKETS
The Ninety-five Per Cent
AT the fag-end of the never-to-be-forgotten war brides
market, or, to be more exact, in December, 1915, I began in a casual sort of way to analyze the accounts of half a dozen of the firm’s most active traders. Like the great majority of our customers, these traders had been bullish on the munition and standard industrial stocks during the great speculative boom of that year, and now, with the stocks in which they had been operating up from 15 to 100 points each, their profits were relatively small and their commitments larger than at any preceding stage of the movement.
This in itself was not a Wall Street phenomenon. The same condition prevailed in most of our active accounts and, in fact, had prevailed at the top of every bull market throughout my experience in the brokerage business. It was obvious that the precepts so sagely laid down by writers of market letters and authors of works on speculation had been disregarded or forgotten by the public. The latter had been told time and again to buy securities when they are low
and to sell them when they are high
; to take small losses’; and
large profits; to avoid
over-trading," and to do many other equally indefinite things which seem so easy to do when one embarks on a speculative venture that all thought of actually doing them is soon forgotten.
These venerable Wall Street dos
and don’ts
have always reminded me of the "Stop! Look!