2014 Reprint of Articles that first appeared in the "Magazine of Wall Street" in the 1920's. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Livermore was an American stock trader. He was famed for making and losing several multi-million dollar fortunes and short selling during the stock market crashes in 1907 and 1929. Apart from his success as a securities speculator, Livermore left traders a working philosophy for trading securities that emphasizes increasing the size of one's position as it goes in the right direction and cutting losses quickly. The materials published in these articles represent Livermore's collective wisdom on stock trading. Chapters include:
Preparing for the day's work
Arrangement of the trading office
How to read the tape
Commitments and limits of risk
How to keep capital turning over
Kind of stocks in which to trade
Pyramiding
And much more