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Category: Trader biography
Published: 1923
Read: 1993
Reviewed: May 2010
First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a fictionalized biography of stock and commodities trader Jesse Livermore, who made and lost many multi-million dollar fortunes during his lifetime. The book tells the story of Livermore's adventures in day trading in bucket shops, being a market speculator and manipulator, and trading on Wall Street. There has been no modern equivalent to this book, partly because there couldn't be. The value of the book is based on the fact that the lessons and advice in the book were written almost a century ago - proving that they are timeless and universal. It book is widely considered to be the best book ever written about trading.
Although some of the stories are out-dated and irrelevant, the book is filled with countless insightful quotes and insight regarding market behavior and investor psychology. I'm not going to write anything else because the book has been referenced so many times that I can't think of anything original to add right now.
Book Reviews
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- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- The New Market Wizards
- Market Wizards
- Michael Sivy's Rules of Investing: How to Pick Stocks Like a Pro
- Liar's Poker
- In the Company of Giants
- The Power of Cult Branding
- Sam Walton: Made in America
- Trump: The Art of the Deal
- Monkey Business
- F.I.A.S.C.O.
- Pit Bull
- One Up On Wall Street
- Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market
- Aol.com How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions
- Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
- Den of Thieves
- Investment Biker
- Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street
- Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
- The Millionaire Next Door
- Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around?
- Wizards of Wall Street
- License to Steal
- Stock Market Wizards
- Intuitive Trader
- The Winning Trader: Developing a Mental Edge for Market Success
- The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression
- The Winner Take All Society
- Trump: The Art of the Comeback
- Sure-thing Options Trading: A Money-Making Guide to the New Listed Stock and Commodity Options Markets
- Secrets of the Street: The Dark Side of Making Money
- Trading Systems: Secrets of the Masters
- Wallstreet.Com: Fat Cat Investing at the Click of a Mouse : How Andy Klein and the Internet Can Give Everyone a Seat on the Exchange
- The Future of Capitalism
- Investment Gurus
- The New Gatsbys: Fortunes and Misfortunes of Commodities Traders
- Riding the Bull: My Year in the Madness at Merrill Lynch
- The Education of a Speculator
- Warren Buffett: Master of the Market
- Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin
- The New Money Masters
- Forbes Great Minds of Business
- The Millionaire Mind
- Real People: Real Traders How People Like You are Making it in the Markets
- When Giants Stumble
- Beyond the Numbers: How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success
- Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader
- A Million A Minute
- The Four Cardinal Principles of Trading
- The Day Trader's Advantage
- Everything You've Heard About Investing Is Wrong
- The Money Masters
- NLP For Traders
- American Sucker
- Making it In Commodities
- Traders' Tales: A Chronicle of Wall Street Myths, Legends, and Outright Lies
- The Best: TradingMarkets.com Conversations With Top Traders
- Money: Who Has How Much and Why
- Charlie D.: The Story of the Legendary Bond Trader
- The Electronic Day Trader
- The Delta Phenomenon
- The Fortune Tellers
- How To Buy Stocks
- How the Stock Market Works
- Traders: The Jobs, The Products, The Market
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