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          Price  220  190  160  140  120  100  80  70  60  50  40  34  30  26  22  19  16  14  12  10  8  Volume  80,000  50,000  30,000  18,000  © 2009 Investor’s Business Daily, Inc.
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                                  Buy     A classic shorter   16-week cup-  with-handle (note   4 weeks of tight   closes at bottom)  Volume increase   on breakout  Dec 1898
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           Mass-production of steel for The Spanish-American War.  Lowered freight costs by using its own railroad and lowered  operating costs by employing convicts.  Dec 1897 Sep 1897 Jun 1897 Mar 1897 Tennessee Coal & Iron increased 265% in 39 weeks.















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                                                        trading volume for
           Tennessee Coal & Iron–1898  Weekly Chart  Weekly trading   volume, color of   volume matches   color of price Average weekly   prior 10 weeks  Dec 1895 Sep 1895 Jun 1895
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