CONTENTS
[The Human Element in Stock Market Transactions]
[The Pernicious Influence of the Stock Ticker]
[The Disconcerting Effect of Sudden Losses and Gains]
[Retired Business Men in the Stock Market]
[Stock Market Transactions Apart from Gambling]
[The Stock Market Produces a New Phenomenon—turns World-wide Disaster Into Local Prosperity]
[Frenzied Speculation is the Rankest Form of Gambling; It is a Perilous Indulgence]
[The Dangers of Inverted Pyramids]
[The Lure of the Copper Boom—and Bogus Securities]
[The Perils of Over-acquisitiveness—the Human Element in Speculation]
[They All Resolve, But They All Go Back]
[A New Knight-errant in Speculation]
[Some Signs are Comprehendible; Others Are Hard to Interpret]
[None are so Blind As Those Who Refuse to See—none So Foolish as Those Who Scoff at Wise Counsel]
[Even the Stock Market Has Its Farcical Side]
[Speculators are Slaves of Sentiment]
[There is but One Way to Beat the Stock Market; There are Many Ways of Being Beaten by it]
[The Stock Exchange is a Monument of Business Integrity]
[Books Teach Wisdom, But Experience is a More Practical Instructor]
[Whims and Fallacies in Speculation]
[Problems Defying Present Solution are Better Deferred to the Future]
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPECULATION
THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF SPECULATION
THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN STOCK MARKET
TRANSACTIONS
BY
HENRY HOWARD HARPER
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS BY HAYDON JONES
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BOSTON—MDCDXXVI
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Henry Howard Harper
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