Quote from jamesrkeene:
You do understand that everything was completely different 100 years ago in this country right? Including language - for the most part?
Read the book
Yep, what they used to call bucket shop now is termed forex broker.

Seriously, a lot and I mean a lot of things are still the same. The book talks a lot about stock behavior which is the product of human behavior, and that human behavior tends to stay the same.