bucket shop
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“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
From the outside, a bucket shop resembled a legitimate brokerage.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Critics are calling this the bucket shop act of 2012.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
Ryanair, the "no frills" bucket shop airline, has finally confirmed that passengers will now be charged to use the loo.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010
A broker runs a bucket shop when he sells stock to his clients on margin and either never buys the stock for their accounts, or else sells it immediately after buying it.
From Successful Stock Speculation by Butler, John James
