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Summary: Love Jesse Words-Don't like the Author's Words
Review: This book is perfect except I feel that the author is using Jesse Livermores original book to make money. How can you use someone like that. Stupid to me. Though it is informative and the first 7 chapters are of Jesse Livermores words, I can not feel proper hearing someone else who is not even part of being a financial wizard try to interpret a famouse traders technique. You can read the inexperience words from Smitten when re iterating Jesse's teachings. Even the charts are not explained properly unless you know what your looking for. Jesse never needed charts. I just feel like Smitten offers his side of what he feels Jesse is teaching and it sounds redundant and useless. It sounds like Smitten trys to offer some of his ideas as well and I feel it is a stumbling block of knowledge. It would of been great if Smitten just wrote an introduction, maybe a forward or some personal words and leave the book untouched with Jesse's own words. But he sounds like he wanted ride on Jesse's success and sound like a perfessional himself. I didn't buy it.In the last chapters of the book Smitten just re-writes the book and trys to explain in "now a-day" terms what Jesse use to do years ago. And I would of preferred to just hear Jesse's own words of then, because everything he has done applies now. Get the book because the original is no where to be found any more, but be very deserning of what you read after the 7th Chapter.
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF A WALL STREET KING
Review: This book provides an excellent biographical portrait of one of the greatest Wall Street speculators that ever lived. This book is well researched and well written. In fact, as Livermore's life story unfolds in the book, the reader begins to feel as though they are eyewitnesses to the time. The reader gets to experience Livermore's triumphs and defeats. In the end, the reader will find that Livermore's life mirrored the stockmarket more than the life itself. This man's life ran with the bulls and the bears culminating in one big crash. Ultimately, Jesse Livermore died of lead poisoning, a fatal gunshot wound to the head. If it is one's intention to garner the "Livermore Key" to profits in the stockmarket then this is definitely not the book. While the author briefly touches on Livermore's tactics and attempts to tie it into current stocks, the information provided is rather general and somewhat vague. The reader would be better off looking elsewhere for investment advice. However, if you are truly interested in Livermore himself then you might consider it. In the final analysis, while this book is a good one it really does pale in comparison to Edward LeFevre's classic book "Reminiscence of a Stock Operator." LeFevre's book speaks to the reader while Richard Smitten's new book is more of a third person account leaving the reader as more of an observer.
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF A WALL STREET KING
Review: This book provides an excellent biographical portrait of one of the greatest Wall Street speculators that ever lived. This book is well researched and well written. In fact, as Livermore's life story unfolds in the book, the reader begins to feel as though they are eyewitnesses to the time. The reader gets to experience Livermore's triumphs and defeats. In the end, the reader will find that Livermore's life mirrored the stockmarket more than the life itself. This man's life ran with the bulls and the bears culminating in one big crash. Ultimately, Jesse Livermore died of lead poisoning, a fatal gunshot wound to the head. If it is one's intention to garner the "Livermore Key" to profits in the stockmarket then this is definitely not the book. While the author briefly touches on Livermore's tactics and attempts to tie it into current stocks, the information provided is rather general and somewhat vague. The reader would be better off looking elsewhere for investment advice. However, if you are truly interested in Livermore himself then you might consider it. In the final analysis, while this book is a good one it really does pale in comparison to Edward LeFevre's classic book "Reminiscence of a Stock Operator." LeFevre's book speaks to the reader while Richard Smitten's new book is more of a third person account leaving the reader as more of an observer.
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