The Pitfalls of Speculation

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Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. How could I have wanted more? The Pitfalls of Speculation is a classic read. This is one of the nicer reprints I have run across. The advice in this book is as timely today as it was when it was originally written. For Example, Gibson offers his astute observations as follows: After a careful examination, covering a period of ten years, and a study of the methods of successful and unsuccessful traders as shown in some thousands of speculative accounts, the following facts are adduced: The advocates of the "Chart System" are legion, and yet it is impossible to find a single permanent and substantial gain made by this method.

These "ear-marks" are in some cases very plain, and do not in any way smack of the "systems" deprecated above, but are more or less visible signs of effects following certain causes. Sometimes this is caused by false reasoning, but most frequently by the innate false appearance of the market quotations. For example, greatest activity and interest in a market occurs around top prices; while dullness and stagnation are invariable when properties are unreasonably low in price. Any wide-spread dissemination of advance information as to a projected movement would defeat its own object.

The so-called "tip'" is usually mere guess work. The general consensus of public opinion on this subject is correct, i. The accounts mentioned above show the most intelligent trading to have been done by traders who were without facilities to interfere with their own original plans through fright or confusion.

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The changes in prices of standard properties offer yearly greater opportunities for profit than any other field. That is to say, for reasonable profits, not for the amassing of fortunes on small capital, in a brief period, but for steady accumulation of money and valuable knowledge. So great are the opportunities offered by speculative changes that with proper methods and self-control, the poor man cannot afford to overlook them.

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