NYSE Bucket Shops

Ticker tape revolutionized how ordinary investors could access the stock market. Source: NYSE

In 1863, electrician Edward A. Calahan invented the stock ticker, a telegraph receiver capable of printing letters and numbers onto paper tape. At first, almost all ticker customers were brokers and bankers. By around 1880, however, the ticker had spawned a new kind of business, called bucket shops...

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