American · b. 1871
Edwin Lefèvre was an American journalist and author best known for Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a fictionalized portrait of legendary trader Jesse Livermore and an enduring classic of market wisdom.
Edwin Lefèvre was a journalist, writer, and diplomat who wrote extensively about Wall Street and the world of speculation in the early twentieth century.
His most famous work, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), is a thinly fictionalized account of the career of the legendary speculator Jesse Livermore, narrated as the recollections of “Larry Livingston.” Filled with hard-won lessons about markets, psychology, and discipline, it has become a perennial favorite among traders and is widely regarded as one of the best books ever written about speculation.
Lefèvre is remembered above all for this enduring classic, whose insights into market behavior remain strikingly relevant a century later.
by Edwin Lefèvre
Written as fiction but widely understood as the autobiography of Jesse Livermore — the greatest stock speculator of the early twentieth century — this 1923 classic follows the narrator's career from bucket shops to Wall Street, through multiple fortunes made and lost, and distils lessons about markets, timing, and human nature that remain current.
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