Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre

Description

Edwin Lefevre’s Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the rare financial book that is also a work of literature — the thinly disguised story of the great speculator’s career, from the day he posts quotations on the big board as a grammar-school boy to the heights of the New York and Chicago markets. Its narrator learns the market the hard way — the bucket-shop hustlers teaching him the game, the early fortunes thrown away, and the long education in his own weaknesses that every later success depends upon.

Published in 1923 and never out of print since, the book became the unspoken autobiography of generations of traders. Its chapters on tape-reading, manias, and the psychology of whisper campaigns remain quoted on every trading floor, and its lessons on money and temper have aged almost not at all. Whether you trade or merely wish you understood those who do, it is simply the book.

Why readers still come back to it

• The one indispensable book on trading, beloved for a century
• A great speculator’s rise and ruin told with novelistic flair
• Timeless lessons on markets and self-knowledge

About this DodaBooks edition

This edition gives you the complete text with clean, professional typesetting, a working table of contents, and careful chapter navigation — designed for comfortable reading on phones, tablets, and e-readers. Instant download after purchase.