I read Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a book by Edwin Lefevre about Jesse Livermore, a famous 1920s speculator whose nickname was the Boy Plunger of Wall Street.

我读了由埃德温·李费夫撰写的《股票作手回忆录》，该书描写上世纪20年代著名投机商、绰号“华尔街跳水男孩”的杰西·利弗莫尔。

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The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. -Jesse Livermore.

不是市场打败投资者。是他们自己打败自己，他们有头脑但他们不能坚持。

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Jesse Livermore loved beautiful women and his wife Dorothy loved throwing parties often for 100 people or more.

杰西·利物莫尔喜欢漂亮女人而他的妻子多萝西爱好举办社交舞会，经常有过百人参加。

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Jesse Livermore knew this and it took me the better part of 14 years to learn and respect this.

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As it happens, Maury Klein does not cite Fisher's quote, but otherwise he tells the story of the crash clearly and well, with some especially good pen portraits of characters such as Thomas Lamont, Jesse Livermore, Charley Mitchell and Albert Wiggin (who actually made money short-selling).

ECONOMIST: Wall Street crash

And as for the Wall Street Bear, Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famous speculator in the stock and commodities markets, his end is perhaps the most tragic of all.

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