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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefèvre

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is Edwin Lefèvre's 1923 narrative about a speculator in bucket-shop and exchange markets. ChartClub lists the 2006 Wiley edition as market history, not as a modern trading manual.

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Author
Edwin Lefèvre
Publisher
Wiley
Year
2006
Pages
288

Key takeaways

  • The narrative was first published in 1923.
  • This record is the 2006 Wiley edition.
  • Period tape reading does not map directly onto electronic markets.
Wiley dates this edition to January 2006, 288 pages, with a foreword by Roger Lowenstein. The story was first published in 1923. It follows a figure drawn from Jesse Livermore's career through tips, plunges, and repeated ruin and recovery. The tape in the book is a human reader of prices in a market structure that no longer exists. Quoting a line about sitting tight does not transfer the mechanics of 1920s exchanges onto electronic markets. The durable part is behavioral: overtrading, believing a tip, and adding size after a win. Read it as a story about speculation. Do not read it as instructions for today's order book.

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  • tape-reading
  • psychology
  • decision-making
  • market-history

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