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To: Rex Dwyer who wrote (11)2/15/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: Rex Dwyer  Read Replies (1) of 42
 
bucket shop - noun

A fraudulent brokerage operation in which orders to buy and sell are accepted but no executions take place. Instead, the operators expect to profit when customers close out their positions at a loss.

[From bucket shop, a saloon selling small amounts of liquor in buckets, from its resemblance to the forerunner of such brokerage operations, which dealt in small units of stocks and commodities.]


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