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<head><title>Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Fixture)</title></head>
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<body>
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<h2>I</h2>
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<p>
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<span id="Page_1">1</span>
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The narrator takes his first job as a quotation-board boy at a stock
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brokerage off the New York Stock Exchange. He is quick with figures
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and watches the tape behaviour of stocks like Hollow Tube and Erie,
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keeping a small book of hits and misses to test his memory against
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the next day's quotations.
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</p>
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<p>
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<span id="Page_2">2</span>
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He learns, in the bucket shops that dotted the city in those years,
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that anticipating price movements is a craft built on observation of
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tape behaviour, not on tips from customers crowded around the
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ticker.
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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