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infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-bryan-panic-of-96.md

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+# Entity Title: Bryan Panic of ’96
+## Definition
+The Bryan Panic of 1896 was a financial crisis characterized by significant volatility and manipulation in the markets, leading to widespread impact on traders, including those in bucket shops.
+## Category
+event

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-bucket-shop-drive.md

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+# Entity Title: Bucket-Shop Drive
+## Definition
+A bucket-shop drive refers to a situation where the prices of stocks are manipulated downwards in a coordinated effort to force clients who are long on those stocks to incur losses or be wiped out.
+## Category
+strategy

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-bucket-shop.md

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+# Entity Title: Bucket Shop
+## Definition
+A bucket shop is a type of brokerage that allows speculative trading in stocks without actually buying shares. These shops often manipulate market prices to exploit their clients, leading to significant losses for traders.
+## Category
+market

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-bull-tips.md

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+# Entity Title: Bull Tips
+## Definition
+Bull tips are recommendations or information suggesting that a stock's price will rise, encouraging traders to buy. These were used strategically to influence market movements in the discussed scenario.
+## Category
+evidence_bearing_claim

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-cosmopolitan.md

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+# Entity Title: Cosmopolitan
+## Definition
+The Cosmopolitan is identified as a bucket shop that engaged in manipulative practices, specifically targeting short positions in Sugar by artificially inflating stock prices.
+## Category
+institution

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-dollar-manipulation.md

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+# Entity Title: Dollar Manipulation  
+## Definition  
+The practice of manipulating stock prices to extract profits from the market, often at the expense of average investors.  
+## Category  
+error  
+## Context  
+It underscores the dangers of participating in manipulative market practices without adequate knowledge.  
+## Source Evidence  
+"Their brokers in New York ran up the price to 108. Of course it fell right back, but Henry and a lot of others were wiped out."  
+
+---

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-market-drive.md

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+# Entity Title: Market Drive  
+## Definition  
+A tactic employed to artificially inflate or deflate stock prices in a way that leads to trader losses and profits for others.  
+## Category  
+strategy  
+## Context  
+Refers to the strategy used by operators to manipulate stock prices causing losses for long holders.  
+## Source Evidence  
+"whenever there was an unexplained sharp drop which was followed by instant recovery, the newspapers in those days used to call it a bucket-shop drive."  
+
+---

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-market-factor.md

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+# Entity Title: Market Factor
+## Definition
+A market factor is an operator or trader who significantly influences trading conditions or stock prices within the market. In the text, a certain trader is identified as a market factor due to his previous successes in market manipulation.
+## Category
+trader

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-new-york-stock-exchange.md

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+# Entity Title: New York Stock Exchange
+## Definition
+The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a major stock exchange where trading of stocks occurs, serving as a venue for some of the trading activities mentioned in the context of market manipulation.
+## Category
+market

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-short-position.md

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+# Entity Title: Short Position
+## Definition
+A short position refers to the practice of selling stocks that a trader does not own, with the intention of buying them back at a lower price to profit from the decline. It was a significant factor in the losses suffered by the traders in the context.
+## Category
+strategy

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-sugar-commodity.md

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+# Entity Title: Sugar (Commodity)
+## Definition
+Sugar refers to a specific commodity that is traded on the market, in this case, associated with the incident involving Tom and Henry Williams, where their positions were affected by market manipulation.
+## Category
+instrument

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-sugar.md

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+# Entity Title: Sugar  
+## Definition  
+A specific stock that traders engage with, which is central to the narratives involving trading strategies and market manipulation.  
+## Category  
+instrument  
+## Context  
+Sugar is referenced in the context of a market manipulation scheme executed by bucket shops.  
+## Source Evidence  
+"Henry Williams and I together were short six thousand shares of Sugar."  
+
+---

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-western-union-stock.md

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+# Entity Title: Western Union (Stock)
+## Definition
+Western Union is a stock that was frequently manipulated by traders due to its relative ease of movement within the market, making it a favored target for speculative trading schemes.
+## Category
+instrument

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-western-union.md

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+# Entity Title: Western Union  
+## Definition  
+A specific stock favored for trading due to its liquidity and ease of price manipulation.  
+## Category  
+instrument  
+## Context  
+Referencing a stock used strategically to execute manipulative trades benefiting the instigator.  
+## Source Evidence  
+"One of his favorite stocks was Western Union, because it was so easy to move a semiactive stock like that a few points up or down."