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Hello and welcome. You are listening to Patrick Boyle on Finance, a podcast exploring ideas from

quantitative finance, examining events occurring in markets right now and financial history

to see what lessons can be taken away, including interviews

with some of the most interesting people in the world of finance. To learn more about the podcast,

visit onfinance.org.

If you ask investors to name the greatest trader in modern history, it's very likely that

they'll bring up the name Jesse Livermore first. Livermore is a true legend in the world

of finance and investing, celebrated as a trading prodigy with an uncanny ability to trade

stocks, bonds, commodities and whatever else moved. He's quoted every day

on trading floors around the world. According to Amazon, reminiscences of a stock operator,

a fictionalised biography based on the life and experiences of Jesse Livermore is the most

widely read, highly recommended investment book ever written.

Newly hired traders at investment banks and hedge funds are often told to read the book before starting the first day at work.

It might surprise you to hear that the story most people know, the one immortalised in reminiscences

of a stock operator, does not accurately reflect Livermore's life.

Let's dig a little bit deeper today to uncover the stark differences between the myth and

the man, exploring the untold chapters that have mostly gone forgotten.

Reminiscences is a great book. I've probably read it three or four times. It's filled with

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