Jesse Livermore always repaid that trust," Rubython wrote. He got a job as a Paine Webber board boy on $5 a week. He bought his first share at 15 and got a profit of $3.12 from $5 after teaching ...

The tragedy of Jesse Livermore’s story is how it ended. Toward the end, Jesse broke his own risk management rules and paid a dear price—losing most of his fortune. He took his own life in 1940.

In the 1920s, Jesse Livermore may have been the most famous bear on Wall Street. Because he had started young and more than once wagered his entire capital, he was known as the “Boy Plunger ...

Facebook IPO = 2012 bottom. 2014 Alibaba IPO = 2014 top. No crystal ball, but mkt certainly setting up for some blowoff action tomorrow. — Jesse Livermore (@Jesse_Livermore) September 19, 2014 ...

What do Tom Brady, Ted Williams, and Jesse Livermore share in common? Each of these legends studied the past extensively (conducted a post analysis) to become the best in their respective fields.

Jesse Livermore. By. Editorial Staff - February 1, 2002. Share. Tweet. Share. World's Greatest Stock Trader. by Richard Smitten (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001, 319 pages) $19.95. reviewed by ...

Few stock market operators in American history continue to command as much respect and attention from modern investors as Jesse Livermore. And thanks to American journalist Edwin Lefevre's ...

Livermore was immortalized in the trading classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre. To be a great trader you have to be a great loser.

If Jesse Livermore was looking for Anaconda Copper in 1907 to rally from $300 to $340 "in a jiffy," a roughly 13% move, then TSLA, after pushing through $100, did precisely that in late May 2013.

“Jesse L. Livermore, the stock market operator, of 1100 Park Avenue missing and has not been seen since 3pm yesterday,” the New York Times wrote in 1933. He returned, but his path was set.