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• Step up to the window by Alan Hanson

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Step up to the window by Alan Hanson As a newly-licensed floor broker handling orders for a major Chicago commodity broker, I enjoyed expressing my own market theories and opinions to the older members of the exchange. My ideas were important to me, but they didn't seem to impress my more experienced peers. One old timer would answer me by saying ""Step up to the window, son."" In plain language, ""If I was so sure of myself, why didn't I put my own money up and trade the market the way I saw it?"" It's one thing to talk about the market and another matter to ""step up to the window"" and put...

AUTHOR: Alan HansonDATE: NOV 1985