Favorable executions : The Wall Street specialist and the auction market /
Michael G. Zahorchak
- New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., c1974
- xiv, 189 pages ; 23 cm.
1. Wall street's most cursed men -- 2. You've got to see it to believe it -- 3. How it all began -- 4. The markets of today -- 5. The view from the floor -- 6. The people of the exchange -- 7. Managing the crowd -- 8. Profile of a specialist -- 9. The manufacturing of stocks -- 10. Stocks - the lifeblood of the specialist -- 11. Similarities and differences - exchange vs. over-the-counter -- 12. The day the bottom fell out -- 13. The philosophy of specializing - 14. Factors affecting the price of a stock -- 15. Setting the price on opening day -- 16. Learning to handle a new listing -- 17. The specialist-company relationship -- 18. The economics of specializing -- 19. The big bust -- 20. Who needs him? -- 21. Is anybody watching? -- 22. How to beat the system -- 23. Summary