The Cycles of Speculation
by Thomas Gibson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gibson, Thomas, 1868-
- Title
- The cycles of speculation
- Original Publication
- New York: The Moody Corporation, 1907.
- Credits
- deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HG: Social sciences: Finance
- Subject
- Financial crises
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 75687
- Release Date
- March 22, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Cycles of Speculation
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.I Introduction
- 5.II The Cycles of Speculation — Principal Crises of the Last Century.
- 6.III The Gold Supply — 1—The effect of the increasing gold production on bonds and preferred stocks having a fixed rate of income. — 2—The effect upon Common Stocks of Railroad Corporations. — 3—The effect upon stocks of industrial corporations. — 4—The effect on speculative commodities— Wheat, Corn, Oats, Cotton, etc.
- 7.IV Money
- 8.V Political Influences, Crops, Etc. — Crops and Crop Failures. — Accidents.
- 9.VI Puts and Calls
- 10.VII The Question of Dividends — Basing Railroad Values. — The Effects of Business Depression on Rails and Industrials. — Undigested Securities. — How to Compute the Value of Rights. — Barometer of Averages. — The Best Method of Trading. — Indications of Crises. — The Ordinary Swing of Prices During a Cycle of Speculation. — The Factor of Safety. — Borrowing and Lending Stocks. — Scalping. — Crop Damage. — The Selection of Securities. — The Bank Statement.
- 11.The Cycles of Stock Speculation. [4] — Cycles of Grain Speculation. [5] — Cycles of Cotton Speculation. [6] — Conclusion.
- 12.BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- 13.INDEX
- 14.Untitled
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