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The primary reason I write and publish is to inform and educate others. It is also a fantastic exercise: it keeps my knowledge sharpened, arguments ready, and reputation strong.

Brokerage Fraud book cover

The book · Dearborn Trade, 2002

Brokerage Fraud: What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know

Co-authored with Douglas J. Schulz. From annuities to wrap accounts, arbitration to margin sellouts — a cookbook for a clean retail brokerage, as one reviewer put it.

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The article index

Card catalog

Full texts are being restored to this archive from print originals

01 Concentration: Too Much of a Good Thing?
02 Cryptocurrencies: Investments or Electronic Currency of the Future?
03 Securities Arbitration Part I: A Primer
04 Securities Arbitration Part II: A Hypothetical Arbitration Case
05 10 Reasons to Hang Up the Phone When a Stockbroker Says…
06 Margin in Your Brokerage Account
07 The New Account Form
08 Your Brokerage Investment Objectives
09 Do You Need Professional Help?
10 Going it on Your Own
11 Choosing Professional Help: Conflicts of Interest
12 Merrill Lynch vs. Prudential
13 Picking the Right Stockbroker
14 More on Picking the Right Stockbroker
15 Who's Minding the Store?
16 Board of Directors Beware
17 The Meaning of SIPC
18 Behind the Scenes at Olde
19 You Can't Be Too Trusting About Anything Today
20 The "Just Say No" Tactic
21 Justice Closes its Eyes in the Face of Wrongdoing
22 Commodities: No Higher Risk on the Market
23 Is Option Trading for You?
24 Problems with Internet Trading
25 Due Diligence Research: How to Check Out Your Broker
26 Buyer Beware, Says the NASD
27 Supervision of Third-Party/Power of Attorney Accounts

Also: “Forced Arbitration — Perfect Justice? Discovery in Arbitration,” Securities Arbitration Commentator (1990), and “Should You Challenge an Arbitrator for Cause or Make a Motion or Request for Recusal?” PIABA Bar Journal (Spring 2003).

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