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Market Update is the lazy mans way of performing Al Korans Headline Countdown Al Koran published the method and secret for his routine in his book Al Korans Legacy. It was his favorite closing effect but unfortunately the method described in the book just wouldnt work and the secret was protected for many years until Graham Jolley decided to go and see Al Koran when he was working locally. He booked for every night of the show and watched and finally understood the working and now this is one of Graham Jolleys favorite closers. MAGIC Magazine recently devoted several pages to this effect and a write up of it by Graham Jolley. The method now correctly described in the latest edition of Legacy does require advance preparation and a considerable amount of memory work or - if not that - a written crib. Now my own version of the effect MARKET UPDATE does away with all of that and the effect is actually self-working. So much so that two spectators following your instructions can do the effect themselves in front of the audience.
This is exactly what happens when you perform MARKET UPDATE.
This description is not about what the audience perceive but is exactly what happens. The performer hands a spectator a sealed envelope clearly marked PREDICTION. A current issue of the international top-selling magazine Business Week is handed to another spectator who is asked to rip out and hold the center spread of the magazine and to place the rest of the magazine to one side.
Now either the spectator or the magician folds the double-page spread in half and rips it into two sheets those two sheets are placed together and torn down the center so that the pages have been torn into 4 pieces. The same process is repeated and the 8 pieces are now placed together and torn down the middle so that the pages have now been torn into 16 roughly equal pieces.
You can handle the effect in a number of ways from here on and one way is to ask
