Rollo Tape (Richard D. Wyckoff) examines the intermediate and long swingsof the stock market in this 1909-1911 sequel to "Studies in Tape Reading."The approach is based on the idea of interpreting the trend of the market by analyzing the action of prices obtained from a daily newspaper and recorded on charts. Studies in Stock Speculation contains 27 chapters in which Wyckoff describes how to analyze the market trend, interpret line and figure charts, rank and classify stocks, understand the logic of speculation, and select profitable investments. He also gives an overview of several general methods of trading, stages of the big swings, judging reactions, and more. Supplemental articles and graphs provide expanded breadth and detail for many topics of the main text. Some of the titles include: "A Method of Forecasting the Stock Market" (ranking stocks based on price and earnings);"A Specialist in Panics" and its sequel;"A Sign of Bull Moves";"A Stop Order Method" of mechanical trading;and "The Composite Man." 27 chapters, 13 additional articles, reader inquiries, supplemental graphs of market averages and individual stocks, notes, a period glossary, and index.

A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day. Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed—and not changed—over the last five hundred years? In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to “stockjobbing” in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, which prompted Sir Isaac Newton to comment, “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” Here are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the “assurance of female chastity”; credit notes and lottery tickets circulating as money; wise and unwise investors from Alexander Pope and Benjamin Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton. From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, from the nineteenth century railway mania to the crash of 1929, from junk bonds and the Japanese bubble economy to the day-traders of the Information Era, Devil Take the Hindmost tells a fascinating story of human dreams and folly through the ages.

Philip L. Carret (1896-1998) was a famed investor and founder of The Pioneer Fund (Fidelity Mutual Trust), one of the first Mutual Funds in the United States. A former Barron’s reporter and WWI aviator, Carret launched the Mutual Trust in 1928 after managing money for his friends and family. The initial effort evolved into Pioneer Investments. He ran the fund for 55 years, during which an investment of $10,000 became $8 million. Warren Buffett said of him that he had “the best long term investment record of anyone I know” He is most famous for the long successful track record he achieved investing in Common Stocks and for being one of Warren Buffett’s role models. This book comprises a series of articles written for Barron’s and published in book form in 1930.—Print Ed.