CHAPTER II.

_The Importance of Special Knowledge regarding the Regularly Recurring Causes that influence the Markets._

1. The Temper of the Public 32

2. Meteorological Influences 32

3. A Favorable Period of the Year 35

4. Causes affecting the Value of English Railway Stocks 36

5. The Course to pursue at the Turn of the Half-year 36

6. Second Half of the Year more favorable for Bear Operations 37

7. Activity among Buyers 39

8. The Bull Speculator’s Great Chance 39

9. The great importance of being now and again altogether Clear of the Markets 40

10. The Movement of Prices near the Settlements 41