Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre · 1923
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About the book
The most quoted trading book ever written: the thinly fictionalised confessions of Jesse Livermore, from bucket shops to nine-figure raids, told with every scar showing. A century of traders has learned its lessons — and repeated its mistakes on schedule.
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Part 1 · A boy who only watched numbers. The first six slides, free.
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The story opens with a fourteen-year-old fresh out of grammar school, hired to chalk prices onto the big board in a brokerage office. A customer by the ticker called the numbers out, and the boy posted them. They never came too fast for him.
The book calls him Larry Livingston, a thin disguise for Jesse Livermore, and the first thing he tells you is odd. The prices on that board did not mean dollars per share to him, or companies, or fortunes. He saw only that they kept changing, and he says flatly that he did not know or care why.
That indifference is where everything starts. Before he owned a single share, he had trained himself to watch the behaviour of prices the way other boys watched a ball game, for five hours a day and two on Saturdays.
Inside the course
19 parts- The bucket-shop education of a fourteen-year-oldFree above
- Beating the bucket shops, and getting barred for it
- First ruin: why the real market was different
- The tape, and what it actually tells you
Questions
Is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
19 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is waiting in the app’s library.
