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- tim3
- 5.00 star(s)
If you don't enjoy reading this then trading is probably not for you!
I have read this book so many times it is a true classic so many gems in there and wonderfully written.
I don't agree with everything he said as I think as I have heard said before he learnt how to make money but never learnt how to keep it and don't reckon much to his money management!
But as a genral book on how the market works you just can't beat it.
I have read this book so many times it is a true classic so many gems in there and wonderfully written.
I don't agree with everything he said as I think as I have heard said before he learnt how to make money but never learnt how to keep it and don't reckon much to his money management!
But as a genral book on how the market works you just can't beat it.
- Griffin
- 5.00 star(s)
Valuable lessons!
Excellent book
Helped equip me with the right mindset of accepting losses as a business cost becuase "the market will do what it does"
Also teaches the value of "going with the direction of the market" as well as easy explanations of other principles such as price movement, lines of least resistance and"double pressure"
It also provides a demonstration of the value of remaining determined and believing in your edge
Excellent book
Helped equip me with the right mindset of accepting losses as a business cost becuase "the market will do what it does"
Also teaches the value of "going with the direction of the market" as well as easy explanations of other principles such as price movement, lines of least resistance and"double pressure"
It also provides a demonstration of the value of remaining determined and believing in your edge
- RajKri
- 5.00 star(s)
Spend an hour with this book everyday
I came across this book for the first time in 1996, when I was working for a Member of Bangalore Stock Exchange. The stock exchange had a good library and I used to take this particular book Reminiscences of Stock Operator and kept renewing it for over 2 years. I loved to read it over and over again. I have purchased a copy of the book and now read it atleast 2 or 3 times year.
I was a blind trader till 1996. I get an information from one of the trading colleagues from another brokerag on the floor of the stock exchange or from another rokerage house in Mumbai or Calcutta. Some worked, some did not. But after reading this book, it opened my mind to more creative ways in trading. I educated myself to different ways of approaching a trade. I got attracted more to the technical analysis than fundamental analysis. But I never ignored the fundamentals at any time. it took about 4-5 years to realise what are the Do's and Dont's that I should follow. Everything learned by experience, not from book.
I recommend this book to everyone and insist on owning a personal copy of the same. Its written in way that one can simply visualise it infront of us. We see things happening infront of us, as if watching a movie. Its not about moralising and ethicalising all that is happening in market. Its just about what a trader should be doing. It takes us to a world where powerful men moved the markets from behind the scenes, how their mind worked, how they studied the crowd, how scamsters operated and so on. In a world of no computers, internet and research houses, how they identified good trading and investment bets and profited from it;its worth spending atleast an hour with this book every day.
I came across this book for the first time in 1996, when I was working for a Member of Bangalore Stock Exchange. The stock exchange had a good library and I used to take this particular book Reminiscences of Stock Operator and kept renewing it for over 2 years. I loved to read it over and over again. I have purchased a copy of the book and now read it atleast 2 or 3 times year.
I was a blind trader till 1996. I get an information from one of the trading colleagues from another brokerag on the floor of the stock exchange or from another rokerage house in Mumbai or Calcutta. Some worked, some did not. But after reading this book, it opened my mind to more creative ways in trading. I educated myself to different ways of approaching a trade. I got attracted more to the technical analysis than fundamental analysis. But I never ignored the fundamentals at any time. it took about 4-5 years to realise what are the Do's and Dont's that I should follow. Everything learned by experience, not from book.
I recommend this book to everyone and insist on owning a personal copy of the same. Its written in way that one can simply visualise it infront of us. We see things happening infront of us, as if watching a movie. Its not about moralising and ethicalising all that is happening in market. Its just about what a trader should be doing. It takes us to a world where powerful men moved the markets from behind the scenes, how their mind worked, how they studied the crowd, how scamsters operated and so on. In a world of no computers, internet and research houses, how they identified good trading and investment bets and profited from it;its worth spending atleast an hour with this book every day.
- Jay Hawk
- 5.00 star(s)
One of the Classics!
I was given my first copy of this classic book on trading when I started working for a major investment bank back in the 1980's. I have since read it multiple times and still consider it an invaluable part of my financial library. It covers the trading-related life of a highly successful trader with such insight that it helps me get into a similar mindset for success when I feel I may have strayed. His lifetime worth of experience both making and losing fortunes are respectively very educational as to what to do and not to do as a trader. Highly recommended!
I was given my first copy of this classic book on trading when I started working for a major investment bank back in the 1980's. I have since read it multiple times and still consider it an invaluable part of my financial library. It covers the trading-related life of a highly successful trader with such insight that it helps me get into a similar mindset for success when I feel I may have strayed. His lifetime worth of experience both making and losing fortunes are respectively very educational as to what to do and not to do as a trader. Highly recommended!
- soccerscott
- 5.00 star(s)
Great book
Edwin Lefevre's "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is a "fictionalized" memoir of the real-life trader Jesse Livermore - considered by some the greatest stock trader of all-time. Working in the early twentieth century, Livermore started from nothing and built multi-million dollar wealth multiple times, only to repeatedly lose it. Livermore was so respected and feared during his era that rumors of his trades would create and destroy fortunes on Wall Street. In this book, written in 1922, Livermore tells the
This book is not a full memoir of his life and instead focuses only on his "business." He only refers to his wife or personal life as it relates to his investing; for example, in one case, one executive "used" his wife by dropping some insider information to her over dinner in an effort to encourage Livermore to trade in that company. Livermore did, but - as someone who didn't believe in buying on tips - her instead shorted that company. Still, because he never focused on his personal life and rarely on his personal feelings, I was shocked to later read that Livermore killed himself twenty years later and had had four wives.
This book is full of "trading" (not investing") advice. Is any of his advice relevant today? While his techniques may not work for the modern trader, much can still be learned from this book. He says it best when he says that, although cadets at West Point need not study archery as practiced by the ancients, "Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield.... `The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will in the future will continue to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.'"
"Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is written in a very matter-of-fact style that is easy to read. It is a very interesting book to read and a window on another era. Still, many of the lessons and strategies are still useful for the modern trader.
Edwin Lefevre's "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is a "fictionalized" memoir of the real-life trader Jesse Livermore - considered by some the greatest stock trader of all-time. Working in the early twentieth century, Livermore started from nothing and built multi-million dollar wealth multiple times, only to repeatedly lose it. Livermore was so respected and feared during his era that rumors of his trades would create and destroy fortunes on Wall Street. In this book, written in 1922, Livermore tells the
This book is not a full memoir of his life and instead focuses only on his "business." He only refers to his wife or personal life as it relates to his investing; for example, in one case, one executive "used" his wife by dropping some insider information to her over dinner in an effort to encourage Livermore to trade in that company. Livermore did, but - as someone who didn't believe in buying on tips - her instead shorted that company. Still, because he never focused on his personal life and rarely on his personal feelings, I was shocked to later read that Livermore killed himself twenty years later and had had four wives.
This book is full of "trading" (not investing") advice. Is any of his advice relevant today? While his techniques may not work for the modern trader, much can still be learned from this book. He says it best when he says that, although cadets at West Point need not study archery as practiced by the ancients, "Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield.... `The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will in the future will continue to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.'"
"Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is written in a very matter-of-fact style that is easy to read. It is a very interesting book to read and a window on another era. Still, many of the lessons and strategies are still useful for the modern trader.
- wisestguy
- 4.00 star(s)
livermore
from a trading perspective , I expected more from this highly recommended book.
but what was interesting was that he was using essentially what were SB shops of the time .
so that has direct relevence to us .
when you think of all the dirty tricks he had to go up against and still he triumphed , it was amazing.
he was a guy just like us, not a bank trader , not a fund manager of any sort , an ordinary bloke who faced huge barriers to trade .
remember those spreads he had to negotiate ? makes the SBs look razor thin.
enjoyable.
from a trading perspective , I expected more from this highly recommended book.
but what was interesting was that he was using essentially what were SB shops of the time .
so that has direct relevence to us .
when you think of all the dirty tricks he had to go up against and still he triumphed , it was amazing.
he was a guy just like us, not a bank trader , not a fund manager of any sort , an ordinary bloke who faced huge barriers to trade .
remember those spreads he had to negotiate ? makes the SBs look razor thin.
enjoyable.
- MaxiV
- 4.00 star(s)
An excellent read for traders.
I found this a great read from the norm. Great tips can be found from this book even though it is in a format of a story. Every time I read it I see another tip. A must read for all traders and one of my first book early in my trading days.
I found this a great read from the norm. Great tips can be found from this book even though it is in a format of a story. Every time I read it I see another tip. A must read for all traders and one of my first book early in my trading days.
- gabriel lavelle
- 3.00 star(s)
Failure as a human being
Its quite a while since I read this book & from memory did not Jesse Livermore blow his brains out in the end because he could not handle being wrong? I dont think that anyone is sucsessful despite their apparent successes if they fail to live with their successes & failures. Having experienced the darkest of depression personally brought on by ambition & driveness & having considered suicide & pulled back from it & having friends who have died prematurely for various reasons including suicide & seeing the mess left behind I just cannot agree that a book about a trader who killed himself can be classed a great trading book apart from being an example of what we can becme if we're not careful. Surely books about Soros despite his huge ego - probably as large as Kissingers, are far more useful as guides to us live traders
My thoughts entirely
Gabriel Lavelle
Its quite a while since I read this book & from memory did not Jesse Livermore blow his brains out in the end because he could not handle being wrong? I dont think that anyone is sucsessful despite their apparent successes if they fail to live with their successes & failures. Having experienced the darkest of depression personally brought on by ambition & driveness & having considered suicide & pulled back from it & having friends who have died prematurely for various reasons including suicide & seeing the mess left behind I just cannot agree that a book about a trader who killed himself can be classed a great trading book apart from being an example of what we can becme if we're not careful. Surely books about Soros despite his huge ego - probably as large as Kissingers, are far more useful as guides to us live traders
My thoughts entirely
Gabriel Lavelle
- bedsit
- 3.00 star(s)
Reminescences of a Stock operator
The legendary 'Boy Plunger' and 'Great Bear of Wall Street' who went short the market and made over 100 million dollars...
He killed himself, his wife shot her son...
Maybe not the best book for somebody who is new to trading and wants to live a long and prosperous life.
The legendary 'Boy Plunger' and 'Great Bear of Wall Street' who went short the market and made over 100 million dollars...
He killed himself, his wife shot her son...
Maybe not the best book for somebody who is new to trading and wants to live a long and prosperous life.
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Speilberg should do it, which T2W poster is ugly enough to play the lead role?
Cracking read, brilliant piece of writing, part fiction part biography, highly entertaining. Later versions with addendums and annotations increase the enjoyment.
The current zeitgeist is to be 'smart' enough to discover the hidden meaning for retail traders, there is none, as a bible it's as impotent as other comfort blankets; Trading in the Zzzone etc...
Whilst the mindset of the trader may not have evolved over time, the methods employed have. In terms of relevance Jesse was a top level player of that there's no doubt, but he had more in common with Philip Green of Arcadia than Morgan Sze (formally of Goldman Sachs).
Cracking read, brilliant piece of writing, part fiction part biography, highly entertaining. Later versions with addendums and annotations increase the enjoyment.
The current zeitgeist is to be 'smart' enough to discover the hidden meaning for retail traders, there is none, as a bible it's as impotent as other comfort blankets; Trading in the Zzzone etc...
Whilst the mindset of the trader may not have evolved over time, the methods employed have. In terms of relevance Jesse was a top level player of that there's no doubt, but he had more in common with Philip Green of Arcadia than Morgan Sze (formally of Goldman Sachs).