ABSTRACT
To the newcomer, the market appears filled with wonders and mysteries as the landscape of Mars will appear to the first space travelers to land there. There are strange rumblings, apparently unexplainable upheavals, weird growths. An unknown stock will suddenly emerge from a morass of debt and deficit, and proceed to soar to great heights. An old and trusted issue will paradoxically sag and droop, although apparently rooted in the soil of economic stability. All will seem peaceful and secure; and suddenly, the ground opens up and swallows values in a sensational market break.
