bucket shop

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Noticing patterns, he placed his first stock trade the following year in a bucket shop—more a gambling parlor than a brokerage.

From The Wall Street Journal

There could be lessons in the story of 19th-century bucket shops, which allowed regular people to gamble on, but not in, the market, before rolling out to dinner in horse-drawn buggies.

From New York Times

She said she had opened Wisteria as an alternative to supermarkets and other florists with what she called “the bucket shop mentality” — premade bouquets sitting in big black buckets.

From New York Times

At the time, the Long Island bucket shops were pumping obscure stocks to whoever would buy them.

From New York Times

This was the sad outcome of Golden starting a Wall Street “bucket shop” in 1926 after being introduced to the brokerage business by his sister, Clara, “Wall Street’s first modern-day female stockbroker.”

From Washington Post