Jesse Lauriston Livermore, American investor and security analyst, "Great Bear of Wall Street" (died 1940)

Jesse Livermore

American stock trader (1877–1940)

Jesse Lauriston Livermore was an American stock trader. He is considered a pioneer of day trading and was the basis for the main character of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a best-selling book by Edwin Lefèvre. At one time, Livermore was one of the richest people in the…