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  • Manifest Greatness: The Jesse Livermore Guide to Investing Offshore

    Manifest Greatness: The Jesse Livermore Guide to Investing Offshore

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    In the annals of financial history, few names resonate like Jesse Livermore’s, a man whose trading strategies and life story continue to inspire and instruct investors around the world. Dubbed the “Great Bear of Wall Street,” Livermore’s philosophy and approach offer timeless insights, particularly when applied to the modern context of offshore investing. The Legend…

  • Market Mavens and Gold Market Speculation

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    Spectacular profits are captured in gold market speculation, the key is knowledge of when, where and how. To gain some insight we created a virtual round table of current-day market mavens, to which we added our favourite, the Great Bear of Wall Street; Jesse Livermore, perhaps the great stock market maven of all time. Some…

  • What would Jesse Livermore and Sun Tzu be doing in today’s gold market?

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    Q: What would Jesse Livermore and Sun Tzu be doing in today’s gold market? A: Lusting for blood. Both would understand that there is a historic opportunity to make serious money in the next few years. Civil unrest is coming. The Art of Speculation during Civil War Sun Tzu Meets Jesse Livermore The people controlling…

  • Gold Mining Shares is a Sound Strategy

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    Q: We have had a significant up move in the gold mining shares since the middle of January. I remember your suggesting that for portfolio investors, dollar cost averaging into the shares was a sound strategy. Have you changed your view now? A: No, it is a sound strategy still for anyone looking to acquire…

  • Value of a Diamond in the Rough

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    Q: I’m having trouble understanding your statement that all value is subjective. I can clearly see how it applies to a diamond, but not to food. Food is necessary for life. Its value seems to be inherent or fundamental to the food itself. But you cannot eat a diamond. Its value is determined by passing…

  • Great Bear of Wall Street – Jesse Livermore

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    Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 – 1940) was known as the “Great Bear of Wall Street”. He made and lost several fortunes in the stock market using a system he began to develop at age fourteen when he held an entry-level position at a brokerage in Boston. He analysed price and volume data and became expert…

  • The Art of Speculation during Civil War

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    Sun Tzu Meets Jesse Livermore The people controlling corporations have insider information and can therefore trade their company’s stock at an advantage to the general public. In most jurisdictions this is a violation of criminal law. However, there are groups to whom the prohibition against insider trading does not apply, for instance, members of the…

  • New Rules for Global Investing in 2007

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    Jesse Livermore, widely regarded as one of the greatest stock market operators of all-time, considered himself a humble student of the market until his last day in 1940. “I study the market, because it’s my business to trade. In the forty years which I have devoted to making speculation a successful business venture, I am…