Black Tuesday Trading Floor
Stock prices began to decline in september and early october 1929 and on october 18 the fall began.
Black tuesday trading floor. Chalkies were responsible for handling orders on the trading floor updating long chalk boards as investors sold their shares abc news mr hore was a 19 year old chalkie on black tuesday part of. When the market took an even further dive on black tuesday john schwitzgebel shot himself to death inside a kansas city club. The trading floor of the new york stock exchange in 1930 six months after the crash of 1929 on october 28 black monday 11 more investors facing margin calls decided to get out of the market and the slide continued with a record loss in the dow for the day of 38 33 points or 12 82. Black tuesday october 29 1929 is the worst day in nyse history.
The dow fell 11 as 16 million shares were traded. The stock pages of the newspaper were found covering his body. Panic set in and on october 24 black thursday a record.