Bring Wall Street to Main Street: A Mobile Broker’s First Licensed Years
Part three of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a Christmas bonus paid in whiskey, an NYSE exam graded by the boss, and a tape so slow a quote took…
The Day a Newcomer Called Zenith to 300 and Stopped a Mobile Office Cold
Part five of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: brokers gave a suspicious Northern newcomer a wide berth, until the day he staged a trading feat nobody in the office…
The Sitters, the Soybean Doctor and a Change of Command Downtown
Part four of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: retired men who spent their days watching the tape, a shift in command at the brokerage, and the return of the…
‘What Have I Gotten Into?’ A New Broker Takes the Measure of Mobile’s Little Wall Street
Part two of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile: a rookie account executive discovers that all three of the men above him at the downtown brokerage have a drinking…
Sell 200,000 Bushels: The Mobile Surgeon Who Traded Soybeans From the Operating Room
Part ten of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a Mobile eye surgeon ran enormous soybean positions from the operating table, and made his broker the top producer in the…