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+## Subject
+quotation-board boy
+
+## Predicate
+operates in
+
+## Object
+stock-brokerage office
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"I got a job as quotation-board boy in a stock-brokerage office."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+stock prices
+
+## Predicate
+show
+
+## Object
+certain habits
+
+## Relation Type
+cause_effect
+
+## Evidence
+"I noticed that in advances as well as declines, stock prices were apt to show certain habits."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+past performances
+
+## Predicate
+guide
+
+## Object
+anticipation of movements in prices
+
+## Relation Type
+risk_mitigation
+
+## Evidence
+"My only guide, as I say, was their past performances."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+tape
+
+## Predicate
+is
+
+## Object
+telescope
+
+## Relation Type
+lesson_evidence
+
+## Evidence
+"A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+observations
+
+## Predicate
+determine
+
+## Object
+probable movements
+
+## Relation Type
+lesson_evidence
+
+## Evidence
+"I was most interested in verifying whether I had observed accurately; in other words, whether I was right."

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/relations/chapter-01-part-002-relations.md

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+## Subject
+Hollow Tube
+
+## Predicate
+went down
+
+## Object
+three points
+
+## Relation Type
+cause_effect
+
+## Evidence
+"Hollow Tube went down three points the other day while the rest of the market rallied sharply."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+directors
+
+## Predicate
+passed
+
+## Object
+the dividend
+
+## Relation Type
+cause_effect
+
+## Evidence
+"On the following Monday you saw that the directors passed the dividend."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Burlington
+
+## Predicate
+was acting as it usually did before it went up
+
+## Object
+n/a
+
+## Relation Type
+lesson_evidence
+
+## Evidence
+"Sure enough, Burlington, according to my figuring, was acting as it usually did before it went up."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+trader
+
+## Predicate
+operates in
+
+## Object
+bucket shops
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"it was the ideal way to operate in a bucket shop."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+speculating
+
+## Predicate
+produced
+
+## Object
+profit
+
+## Relation Type
+strategy_outcome
+
+## Evidence
+"I made a profit of $3.12."

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/relations/chapter-01-part-003-relations.md

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+## Subject
+Larry Livingston
+
+## Predicate
+operates in
+
+## Object
+bucket shops
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"He began in the smaller bucket shops, where the man who traded in twenty shares at a clip was suspected of being John W. Gates in disguise or J. P. Morgan traveling incognito."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+bucket shops
+
+## Predicate
+cause
+
+## Object
+loss of customer funds
+
+## Relation Type
+cause_effect
+
+## Evidence
+"There were other ways of parting customers from their money, even when they guessed right."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Larry Livingston
+
+## Predicate
+risked
+
+## Object
+trading in the stock market
+
+## Relation Type
+strategy_outcome
+
+## Evidence
+"Anyhow, at fifteen I was making a good living out of the stock market."

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/relations/chapter-01-part-004-relations.md

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+## Subject
+Cosmopolitan
+
+## Predicate
+imposed
+
+## Object
+three-point margin
+
+## Relation Type
+risk_mitigation
+
+## Evidence
+"They made me put up a three-point margin and compelled me to pay a premium at first of a half point, then a point, and finally, a point and a half."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Cosmopolitan
+
+## Predicate
+reduced
+
+## Object
+trading capacity
+
+## Relation Type
+risk_mitigation
+
+## Evidence
+"they reduced my trading capacity by two-thirds."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+trader
+
+## Predicate
+operates_in
+
+## Object
+bucket shop
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"the only bucket shop that would take my business at all"
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+trader
+
+## Predicate
+experienced
+
+## Object
+ups and downs
+
+## Relation Type
+strategy_outcome
+
+## Evidence
+"Of course I had my ups and downs, but was a winner on balance."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Cosmopolitan
+
+## Predicate
+attempted
+
+## Object
+double-cross
+
+## Relation Type
+cause_effect
+
+## Evidence
+"They tried to double-cross me."

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/relations/chapter-01-part-005-relations.md

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+## Subject
+Sugar
+
+## Predicate
+was sold at
+
+## Object
+103
+
+## Relation Type
+strategy_outcome
+
+## Evidence
+"I slapped my tickets on the counter in front of the clerk and yelled, 'Close Sugar!' ... turned out to be 103 again."  
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Margin
+
+## Predicate
+was accumulated by
+
+## Object
+trader
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"I was only twenty when I first accumulated ten thousand dollars in cash."  
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+thinner shoestring
+
+## Predicate
+causes
+
+## Object
+profit for bucket shops
+
+## Relation Type
+cause_effect
+
+## Evidence
+"The thinner the shoestring the better for them, for their profit lies in your being wiped."  
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+risk of trading
+
+## Predicate
+was mitigated by
+
+## Object
+leaving the market
+
+## Relation Type
+risk_mitigation
+
+## Evidence
+"I thought I ought to get out of the market ... I couldn’t spot it exactly."  
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Cosmopolitan
+
+## Predicate
+operated in
+
+## Object
+bucket shop
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"the Cosmopolitan used big slips with a blank space on them where they could write down additional margin."  

infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/relations/chapter-01-part-006-relations.md

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+## Subject
+Bucket shop practices
+
+## Predicate
+cause
+
+## Object
+Market manipulation
+
+## Relation Type
+cause_effect
+
+## Evidence
+"If one customer gets suspicious the others follow suit... a common practice to get some broker to wash down the price of that particular stock far enough to wipe out all the customers that were long of it."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Cosmopolitan
+
+## Predicate
+performed
+
+## Object
+Market manipulation
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"That was what the Cosmopolitan did to get me and Henry Williams and the other Sugar shorts."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+Agent operations
+
+## Predicate
+produced
+
+## Object
+Profit
+
+## Relation Type
+strategy_outcome
+
+## Evidence
+"A fellow told me the originator cleaned up seventy thousand dollars net, and his agents made their expenses and their pay besides."
+
+---
+
+## Subject
+New York operator
+
+## Predicate
+engaged in
+
+## Object
+Market strategies
+
+## Relation Type
+actor_venue
+
+## Evidence
+"He made a great name for himself as a bear during the Bryan panic of ’96."