Show I 1 D dealer e alters in small lots I 1 original bucket shops bucket shop Is another expression n which has an interesting origin the old fashioned stock brokers who were members of the new york stock exchange would not tabean order to buy or sell less than shares of oc stock on margin thus those people whose capital did not admit of their furnishing the necessary margin to trade in such ft a large amount were shut out from trading A class of brokers not members of the exchange sprang up who made a practice of accepting orders for odd lots when the total amounted to or some multiple of shares they would give a joint order to some regular broker for execution thus the small orders were fitted together its as the staves of a bucket and the nickname of these intermediate brokers or jobbers grew to be bucket shop keepers |