Sách sách kinh tế tiếng anh: Trade Like Jesse Livermore- Richard Smitthen

Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
CHAPTER 1 Meet Jesse Livermore 1
CHAPTER 2 Timing is Everything 9
CHAPTER 3 Livermore Trading Discoveries 29
CHAPTER 4 Livermore Pattern Recognition
Timing Keys: Pivotal Point Trading 47
CHAPTER 5 Perfecting Money Management 77
CHAPTER 6 Emotional Control 97
CHAPTER 7 How Livermore Prepared for His Day 115
CHAPTER 8 General Livermore Issues 127
CHAPTER 9 Livermore Quotes—Trading Truths 143
CHAPTER 10 Summary of Livermore Trading Rules 157
CHAPTER 11 Livermore Secret Market Key 169
About the Author 211
Index 213

Preface
Trade Like Jesse Livermore explains the complete Livermore Trading
System, developed by Jesse Livermore over his legendary 45-year
career trading the stock market. This book explores the technical aspects
of the Livermore Trading System, including Timing, Money Management,
and a way to achieve Emotional Control. It deals with the details
and secrets of the stock trading system that brought about Livermore’s
amazing and unbridled success on Wall Street.
The information in this book comes as a result of over two years of
deep research and many personal interviews with the remaining Livermore
heirs. In 2001, I wrote the only complete biography of Jesse Livermore:
Jesse Livermore—World’s Greatest Stock Trader, published by John
Wiley & Sons., Inc. This is a very personal memoir about the famous trader
and covers every aspect of his life from the time he ran away from home in
1891 until he shot himself in 1940.
For that book, I was able to interview Paul Livermore, Jesse’s son,
who was a recluse and had never spoken to anyone about his father.
Paul provided insights into his father’s trading and his methods that had
never been disclosed. Paul was 77 at the time and died shortly after
these interviews.
I also interviewed Patricia Livermore, Livermore’s daughter-in-law,
married to Jesse Livermore Jr. She provided not only several personal
anecdotes, but also some information about how Livermore prepared for
his day of trading and how he prepared his mind to trade in the massive
positions he often took.
Livermore made four separate fortunes and caught the crash of 1907
on the short side: He made over $3 million in a single day. In the Market
Crash of 1929, he made over $100 million.
Livermore was not a fundamentalist in his trading approach—he was a
true technical trader. He believed that the technical trading of stocks, recurring
numerical and chart patterns are nothing more than the graphic reflection
of such human emotional behavior as greed, fear, ignorance, and
hope. Livermore knew how to recognize these recurring patterns andmade several fortunes as a result of this knowledge. “Wall Street never
changes,” he said, “because human beings never change.”
Through trading and market observation, Jesse Livermore found that
stocks and stock markets move in cycles within a series of repetitive patterns.
He then developed a set of unique tools, using mathematical formulas
and equations that allowed him to identify and interpret the movement
in stocks with uncanny reliability. His amazing trading record over the 45
years of his career made him one of the most famous traders to ever work
on Wall Street. He is still regarded by many professional traders as the
greatest trader who ever lived.
Livermore worked in total secrecy in a highly secure New York City
penthouse at 780 Fifth Avenue, the Heckscher Building. He once wrote,
“On October 5, 1923, in order to practice my new techniques and theories,
I moved my offices to Fifth Avenue. I designed the offices very carefully. I
wanted to be away from the Wall Street atmosphere, out of earshot of any
tips. I also wanted to gain more secrecy in my operations and more security,
so that no one could know my trades. Sometimes I used over fifty brokers
to keep my trades secret.”
It was here in these offices that Livermore applied his interpretive
skills with the technical tools available to him at the time: board boys
recording market movement on a chalkboard; telephone lines connected
directly to the exchanges in New York, Chicago, London, and
Paris; and a number of ticker tapes spitting out the most current stock
and commodity quotes. He proved his trading system over and over
again by taking advantage of the accurate price movements predicted
by his trading system.
Under the pseudonym Larry Livingston, Jesse Livermore was the
real protagonist in another best-selling book: Reminiscences of a Stock
Operator, published in 1923 (also currently published by John Wiley &
Sons). That book explained what he did, like cornering entire commodity
markets such as cotton and coffee, and making $3 million in a single
day by going short in the crash of 1907, but that book did not explain
how he did it.
This book explains Livermore’s trading methods, techniques, and
technical formulas. It reveals the Jesse Livermore Trading System in complete
detail. All of these trading methods can be applied to today’s trading
techniques, using personal computers and the Internet.
The book explains a number of aspects of Livermore’s technical trading
systems, such as:
ã Recognizing and profiting from Pivotal Point Trading
ã Continuation Pivotal Points and how to recognize them
ã One- and three- day reversal signals—how to identify them and profitTandem Trading—looking at two stocks, the stock and the sister
stock
ã Industry Group action and how it must be analyzed and understood
before trading
ã Top Down Trading techniques
ã The importance of volume activity in trading a stock
ã Stocks breaking out to new highs and what that can mean for a trader
ã Break-outs from a consolidating base
ã Trading only in the leading stocks in each group
ã The dimension of time, an important element in trading the Livermore
system
ã The complete Livermore Money Management system
The Livermore Trading System can be applied to any trading time frame
from 10 seconds to 10 years, and it can be used by the long-term trader as
well as the day trader.
Like an athlete preparing for a contest, Livermore considered it very
important to prepare himself both psychologically and physically for a day
of trading. These techniques are disclosed in this book.
[NOTE: As a result of his Jesse Livermore research, Smitten currently
is putting together a fully automated software program that allows the
trader to trade like Jesse Livermore. This software program is the main asset
of a company that was taken public and started trading on the Nasdaq
Bulletin Board on April 1, 2003, under the symbol SMKT-Stock Market Solutions.
This highly technical software program has led to an even deeper
study of Livermore’s trading methods and formulas. Much of this detailed
technical material is included in this book.]