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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
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<head><title>Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Fixture)</title></head>
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<body>
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<h2>II</h2>
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<p>
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<span id="Page_15">15</span>
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Between the discovery that the Cosmopolitan Stock Brokerage Company is
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ready to load the dice and the narrator's discovery of pyramiding, he
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sees that even an old bucket-shop hand can be ruined by the wrong
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side of a one-sided market.
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</p>
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<p>
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<span id="Page_16">16</span>
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The lesson he draws is to test the size of his line against the size
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of the float, and to scale in only when each successive purchase is
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vindicated by the tape itself.
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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