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Show H STOCK MARKET LOSSES H The type of people who turn first to the stock market H news when they pick up a daily paper, are blue just now. M , The drop in the market has hit them. These people though j they may live far from Wall street, are much under its M shadow. Instead of trying to perfect themselves in the H technique of their own trade and reach success by superi- H , ority in their own line, they fritter away time trying to H fathom the motives of tho big manipulators, whoso game H i is to conceal their operations from the public H Such people feel more.pfc-scd by a profit B 5Q il HHHB bbbbbbbbbbbbbbsibbbbbbbbbbbibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbkl. speculation than with $100 earned in their regular calling. call-ing. They play the game until their money gives out, or some unusual loss demonstrates the futility of their, course. It is as easy to forecast Wall street as the turn of a roulette wheel. I When the market is going up, these amateurs think the country is basking in the sun of permanent prosperity prosper-ity and they rush in and buy. Then when the market goes off as it has the past weeks, they rush to sell out stocks bought at higher levels. There is no significance in this market break, except that a lot of people are selling sell-ing securities to buy Liberty bonds, so it is inevitable that prices under selling pressure should drop temporarily. tempor-arily. Wall street is governed by feverish and unreasonable i hohpes and fears that are equally illusory. It is as safe a place for outsiders as an automobile speedway is for little children. People who learn their lesson with one moderate moder-ate loss are lucky. Meanwhile those who buy substantial substan-tial securities and forget about the stock market, can find plenty of evidence that business is sound, in spite of war strain. |