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# Jesse Livermore - Boy Plunger: The Man Who Sold America Short in 1929

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Review: Fascinating Character, Great Lessons, Satisfying Read - Being a stock trader for many years, I loved this book. Almost everyone interested in stock trading has heard of Jesse Livermore who made $ 100 million in the crash of ’29. He was a fascinating man who lived fully and knew everyone on Wall Street from Joseph P. Kennedy to Bernard Baruch. Yet when he died in 1940 less than $ 5 million was left. His fictionalized story appears in “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin LeFevre who knew him and interviewed him thoroughly. Many young stockbrokers are required to read that classic. A good, relatively recent book focusing on his techniques was written by Richard Smitten. It’s for the reader to decide the extent to which these techniques are still useful I’ve read LeFevre and Smitten, both good, but this book is simply spectacular. It is wonderfully written and a very complete biography. The author extensively reviewed, it seems, everything about Livermore. What I especially like is the way the author explains the economic and societal environment at each stage of Livermore’s career. Also, he appears to have gained great insight into the evolution of Livermore’s mind over his career of more than forty-five years. This work has an extensive bibliography, active index, and some good pictures (a bit small on Kindle). All in all this should be the classic Livermore story for modern traders and those simply interested in the American economy from 1890 to WWII.
Review: Favorite Biography of the Year - The life of Jesse Livermore was not quite what I expected. As someone who made money from the stock market crash I was curious as to his methodology. I got a lot more than that, including an education into the finance of the late 19th century and 20th century. Jesse Livermore started from very meager beginnings and the early part of the book was about how he used networking skills to change that very quickly. His father pulled him out of school at 14 and told him he would be a farm laborer. A life that didn't interest him. He ran away from home with his mothers help. In town he went right up to a financial house and asked for a job. So begins his first stock experience. Bucket Shops. This was a new concept for me. They enabled people to bet on stock prices without actually owning stock. These operated like mini casinos including turning people away for winning too much. They were shady and eventually were banned. Jesse made and lost fortunes time after time. In this respect there is a lot about him not to model. His personal life was often a disaster. My original goal of learning from him was altered because there is so much I don't aspire to. Making a fortune is great, but not if you lose it shortly thereafter. He also had a number of bad marriages and ended his own life. The parts I do want to copy are his methods of determining if something was working. He believed that the only way to test the truth of something was to see if he made money with it. He also used a method that stopped losses from becoming dangerous as he was often right, but early. The only time he felt guilty was when he altered his method on another persons advice against his better judgement. He did spend an absurd amount of money on stupid things and without this vice a lot of his life would have ended up better. This was a fantastic book, not just because of his personal history, but because of what it says about the period he lived in.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #540,614 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,399 in United States Biographies #13,828 in United States History (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (257) |
| Dimensions  | 6.34 x 1.4 x 9.46 inches |
| Edition  | First Edition |
| ISBN-10  | 0990619915 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0990619918 |
| Item Weight  | 1.6 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 400 pages |
| Publication date  | May 7, 2015 |
| Publisher  | The Myrtle Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating Character, Great Lessons, Satisfying Read
*by J***K on March 16, 2017*

Being a stock trader for many years, I loved this book. Almost everyone interested in stock trading has heard of Jesse Livermore who made $ 100 million in the crash of ’29. He was a fascinating man who lived fully and knew everyone on Wall Street from Joseph P. Kennedy to Bernard Baruch. Yet when he died in 1940 less than $ 5 million was left. His fictionalized story appears in “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin LeFevre who knew him and interviewed him thoroughly. Many young stockbrokers are required to read that classic. A good, relatively recent book focusing on his techniques was written by Richard Smitten. It’s for the reader to decide the extent to which these techniques are still useful I’ve read LeFevre and Smitten, both good, but this book is simply spectacular. It is wonderfully written and a very complete biography. The author extensively reviewed, it seems, everything about Livermore. What I especially like is the way the author explains the economic and societal environment at each stage of Livermore’s career. Also, he appears to have gained great insight into the evolution of Livermore’s mind over his career of more than forty-five years. This work has an extensive bibliography, active index, and some good pictures (a bit small on Kindle). All in all this should be the classic Livermore story for modern traders and those simply interested in the American economy from 1890 to WWII.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Favorite Biography of the Year
*by M***Y on August 21, 2019*

The life of Jesse Livermore was not quite what I expected. As someone who made money from the stock market crash I was curious as to his methodology. I got a lot more than that, including an education into the finance of the late 19th century and 20th century. Jesse Livermore started from very meager beginnings and the early part of the book was about how he used networking skills to change that very quickly. His father pulled him out of school at 14 and told him he would be a farm laborer. A life that didn't interest him. He ran away from home with his mothers help. In town he went right up to a financial house and asked for a job. So begins his first stock experience. Bucket Shops. This was a new concept for me. They enabled people to bet on stock prices without actually owning stock. These operated like mini casinos including turning people away for winning too much. They were shady and eventually were banned. Jesse made and lost fortunes time after time. In this respect there is a lot about him not to model. His personal life was often a disaster. My original goal of learning from him was altered because there is so much I don't aspire to. Making a fortune is great, but not if you lose it shortly thereafter. He also had a number of bad marriages and ended his own life. The parts I do want to copy are his methods of determining if something was working. He believed that the only way to test the truth of something was to see if he made money with it. He also used a method that stopped losses from becoming dangerous as he was often right, but early. The only time he felt guilty was when he altered his method on another persons advice against his better judgement. He did spend an absurd amount of money on stupid things and without this vice a lot of his life would have ended up better. This was a fantastic book, not just because of his personal history, but because of what it says about the period he lived in.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I like this book about Jesse the best
*by A***R on October 30, 2016*

I like this book about Jesse the best. Very hard to put it down because it was riveting through out. I will remember the lessons of patients and probing to get the direct correct.

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