Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
A fictionalized account of legendary speculator Jesse Livermore. A century old, it remains the single best exploration of market psychology, speculation, and the emotional rollercoaster of trading. Every emotional mistake an investor can make is depicted here with novelistic vividness. Recommended by virtually every professional trader who has ever been asked for a reading list.
Livingston's lessons come wrapped in market machinery a century gone: bucket shops, ticker tape, stock pools running manipulations now felonious. The narrative repeats its cycle (fortune, ruin, lesson, fortune) until the lessons blur. And the man behind the pseudonym kept none of his own rules; Livermore went bust repeatedly after publication and died broke by his own hand.
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