
Pioneer of day trading and the model for the hero of Edwin Lefèvre's Reminiscences of a Stock Operator; once among the world's richest people, he owed more than he owned at his suicide in 1940.
A legendary trading record and one late book of his own, though the canonical account of him was written by Lefevre.
1 book of their own · 5 biographies about them
His only book; sets out pivotal points and time-element trading.
How to Trade in Stocks | His only book; sets out pivotal points and time-element trading. | 1940 | – |
The foundational text is a fictionalised biography, which has made the factual record unusually hard to pin down.
A speculator modelled on Jesse Livermore learns to read and trade the market.
“The finest trading book ever written is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin LeFevre. It is colloquial reminiscences by a legendary speculator of the mistakes and lessons he learned over a…” — Barton Biggs
Source: Biggs calling it the finest trading book ever written
Recommended by: Barton Biggs, Bill Miller, Colm O'Shea and 5 others
An early outside biography of the speculator Jesse Livermore.
The life of the trader Jesse Livermore, drawn from family sources.
Smitten's first Livermore volume, largely superseded by his 2001 biography.
Popular retelling; foreword by Paul Tudor Jones.
| Off the Shelf; A Speculator’s Life Is Still Elusive Paywall | The New York Times | 2001 |
| The Original Day Trader | Forbes | 1999 |
| The “Boy Plunger” Paywall | The New York Times | 1940 |