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Summary: Well Worth It
Review: An excellent read on the psychology of trading. Not many books on trading would be considered "page turners", but this one is. For the novice or professional trader, well worth it.
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Summary: A good old favourite
Review: Reads like a bestseller, educates like a textbook and entertains like a movie.... need I state anything else?
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Summary: raw naked capitalism
Review: inspiring if you're a beginer in the financial markets; scary to those who think that capitalism is a way for one man to oppress another. An entertaining read.
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Summary: a gem of history that invigorates the mind
Review: from bucket shops to the trading floors, this book encapsulates the journey of stock operator through the ever-exciting field of commodities and stocks.starting from his early 20s, mr. livingston lost and won enough times to give and ordinary person an ulcer. his clear and untarnished thinking led him towards an ideal stock speculating trading mechanism that finally brought great wealth. after completing this book there is one important lesson learned, among the many others delivered: chasing money will reach you nowhere, because eventually money will end up running faster than you. that is exactly why the markets are very much like a game. there are no guarantees, and there is no mercy. it is a game of chance, patience, stealth and numbers. mr. livingston's story, although taking place in the early 1900's, will give you a better perspective in the market and perhaps an edge in "tweaking" your decisions. a book to be read at least once a year, and cherished for a long time to come.
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Summary: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
Review: Whether you want to read this to understand the techniques and mentality of current or past stock trading, or whether you just want to read a fantastic novel, this book has it all. More than anything, one finds that the more things change, the more they stay the same. The subject of the book, Mr. Livingston (who is really Mr. Livermore), compares the similarities between the successful and unsuccessful speculators of the 1860s to those of the newer generations up to the 1920s. Although written in 1923, this book is clearly as relevant today as it was back then.
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Summary: True.
Review: The reason this book is classic has nothing to do with Jesse Livermore. It has to do with honestly documenting a successful trader's thought process. Of course, the irony is though there are many parallels between successful trading and successful lives, but his life did not reflect his ability to learn from trading mistakes. However, that also has nothing to do with this book, as it was written before 1940. Reminiscences is a classic because you'll relate to it at different times as you progress, suffer, learn, triumph, and obsess over the game. It wants to be read again with each new epiphany a person arrives to on his own. It's complete. This is a book the professional trader keeps within arm's length especially if he/she regularly tries to explain an aspect of the game to someone else... it's often no use to put it into words becuase Lefevre has already done it. ... a trading Bible, and a classic.
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Summary: REAL GOLDEN WORDS OF FINANCIAL ENLIGHTENMENT
Review: I had always seen a paragraph or more of this book often quoted in articles especially in 'Futures' magazine and thought that I should purchase it. When I received this book, I found it to be so interesting that I read the whole thing through in just two days time! It is no wonder that a legendary piece of work, more than 70 years old has still survived and is 'going strong' at the present time. This book greatly highlights the real "American Dream" of where Jesse Livermore started from nothing and went to heights beyond imagination It makes it clear that dealing in Wall Street is not no easy job and you have to live with success and failure in the speculative profession. Almost every few pages, I had underlined sentences or phrases that are to be referenced from time to time again. I strongly recommend this book to both novice traders and professionals alike. A great book!
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Summary: Capture the Spirit of Livermore
Review: I have read the book twice. I compared the book with Jesse Livermore's "How to Trade In Stock" in order to understand this books better. I think that Livermore's book is in a very condensed form, while Edwin Lefevre has constructed the trading strategies of J.L. in a very interesting manner in this book. A good book is a mind stimulator. It is to help you to derive your own thought. I always employ the strategies I have read in these books to construct my own trading strategies. Someone in the review claims that Edwin Lefevre is no trader at all. But you should know that writing is writing. It is a profession in its own way. No book can teach you all, the important point is that it can stimulate your own thought. I also read Richard Smitten's "The Amazing Life of Jesse Livermore". I think that bofore you read this book by Edwin Lefevre, you may first read Smitten's. Smitten's is more historical, while Lefevre's focused more on the psychological side of trading. A good read indeed. But you have to do some independent thinking.
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Summary: A very good book
Review: Human nature never change, and the psycology of trading remains as it is decade after decade. This is one of the best book in trading psychology. However, for traders that wanted to learn Livermore's trading matter, I would say that there isn't much to learn here, as the market has since gone through many changes. Nevertheless, a trader has to learn to control his emmotion in trading, and this is where the usefulness of this book comes in.
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Summary: The only book I have ever read
Review: I hate to read, I can't stand to do it, it extinguishes the natural fire in a human called imagination; but this book or should I say investment bible, should be illegal for anyone in the market to read or have in their hands. By reading this book I learned more about the market and the human mind them I did in four years of collage. When I read it a second time I learned more about investing then I did while getting my MBA. Never in my 24 years have I read a book cover to cover, until this one which I have read four times. If you have any money money in the market, even if its only $20 cash out and buy this book.
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