CHAPTER V 



MARKET MANIPULATION 



Always the market looked strongest just as 

 it was nearest its culmination and already totter- 

 ing to its fall. But though reason and experi- 

 ence told me this the burden I carried rested no 

 less heavily on nerves that were sore and quivered 

 at every comment, in the daily press or on the 

 floor of the Exchange, on the phenomenal 

 strength of the market. That which bore me up 

 and eariied me through was the constant throb- 

 bing of the machine I had created. Buying and 

 selling, always buying and selling at each eighth 

 decline and each eighth advance, helped me to 

 forget the adverse flood that the whole world 

 seemed to predict. 



The machine helped me no less when the crash 

 came and the high price edifice tumbled about our 

 ears. For in the frenzy of the panic and the din 



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