EF Hutton Returns

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by JamesL, Dec 19, 2016.

  1. JamesL

    JamesL

    Well, kinda. It appears someone bought the internet addy and threw up some shitty website:

    http://efhutton.com/

    Found them listed on NY Trader Expo site as "title exhibitor"
     
  2. algofy

    algofy

    What was Ef Hutton ?
     
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  3. speedo

    speedo

    Stock brokerage...used to have a great ad campaign, some one would be in a crowded public place and would say"Well my broker is EF Hutton and he says..."...the whole room would get quiet and pay attention.
     
  4. speedo

    speedo

    Then the ad would say "When EF Hutton speaks, everybody listens."
     
  5. Stymie

    Stymie

    Those were the days when anyone spreading false news was thrown in jail. Those were the days when you traded on "News" it was more likely than not real and you could make money more times than you would lose. The Internet has made it impossible to police information and we are now buried with disinformation. Those days of only real news are long gone and very much missed.
     
  6. Ah...the 70's and 80's...when people looked up at the brokerage houses and brokers...like they were Divine Gods with hidden/superior knowledge about the future who would rain money down on them.

    :):confused:
     
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  7. Yes, the stuffy old timer that resembled Alfred Hitchcock. I believe his name was John Houseman and he also played the tough as nails law instructor in The Paper Chase, a great mid-70's film about Harvard Law School...

    Edit: Houseman did the Smith Barney commercials..."They make money the old fashioned way, they earn it".
     
  8. And 24hr trading has also had an enormous impact.
     
  9. Weird observation I have made since Nov 7 - many news events that are public and huge have been eminently tradable with serious follow through - For example, mention of Icahn's influence on EPA under Trump admin on CNBC sends his refinery stocks up 30% in two days - reminds me of price behavior when I started trading in the mid-late 90's.
     
  10. Sig

    Sig

    Nobody missed the several hundred dollar commissions though. You had to be pretty significantly right just to break even and there was really no such thing as retail trading as we know it.
     
    #10     Dec 20, 2016