Neiderhoffer hasn't come back once, let alone four times.
Runningbear
jessie Livermore
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Neiderhoffer hasn't come back once, let alone four times.
Runningbear
According to Ed Seykota Livermore had syphillis
when he killed himself.
I do not know where he got that information from.
I read in one of the books about him that he used to keep
a notebook with himself and in the last 4-5 days he
was writting the same thing (what was that thing ??) over
and over and over again in that notebook of his. I am
guessing that this notebook is still with the New York city
police. How wonderful it would be to take a peek !!
I think that it was not just a depression or a trading loss that
must have been bothering him, when he decided to cut
his losses and ended up taking his own life (apparently).
In the night before the shooting (when his last picture was
taken) he tells the reporter that we will be gone for ever
or something to that effect. His wife apparently got a bit
troubled by that; to which he replied that he was just kidding.
gaj, any more interesting titbits from the newspaper archives ?
One of the reasons he is so popular is because his life ended
in unusual circumstances. Compare his popularity to the
scores of musicians who killed themselves. They tend
to be more popular that the living ones.
I think it just makes a good story and adds to the mystery.
when he killed himself.
I do not know where he got that information from.
I read in one of the books about him that he used to keep
a notebook with himself and in the last 4-5 days he
was writting the same thing (what was that thing ??) over
and over and over again in that notebook of his. I am
guessing that this notebook is still with the New York city
police. How wonderful it would be to take a peek !!
I think that it was not just a depression or a trading loss that
must have been bothering him, when he decided to cut
his losses and ended up taking his own life (apparently).
In the night before the shooting (when his last picture was
taken) he tells the reporter that we will be gone for ever
or something to that effect. His wife apparently got a bit
troubled by that; to which he replied that he was just kidding.
gaj, any more interesting titbits from the newspaper archives ?
One of the reasons he is so popular is because his life ended
in unusual circumstances. Compare his popularity to the
scores of musicians who killed themselves. They tend
to be more popular that the living ones.
I think it just makes a good story and adds to the mystery.
Which is a common theme with clinically depressed people. Livermore committed suicide because he was afflicted with depression and it probably wasn't properly treated (they didn't have the drugs then that we have now). I have witnessed the disease and its manifestations first-hand.
Livermore's committing suicide was not a heroic act ("cutting losses short") nor was it something to be lauded. It was simply the last act by a severely depressed man.
Uni
Funny here's a big list of "Famous People Who Have Suffered from Depression or Manic-Depression" some people are pretty missing in that list because I typed banker and financier and find none
http://www.geocities.com/coverbridge2k/artsci/famous_people_depression.html
Quote from harrytrader:
Funny here's a big list of "Famous People Who Have Suffered from Depression or Manic-Depression" some people are pretty missing in that list because I typed banker and financier and find none
http://www.geocities.com/coverbridge2k/artsci/famous_people_depression.html
Finally by typing industrialist I found this guy
J.P. Morgan, industrialist
Quote from harrytrader:
Maybe they asked for diamonds so that his profits have to withdrawn and couldn't be reinvested
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One of the most interesting things are you see is some of his battle tested plans in many other books also;
but the Lefevre mining engineer edition was originally published in 1923 , long before others.
Its a shame he never learned his gun safety principles.
Another early edge was his interest in technical analysis ''just out of grammar school '' ;
& noted important business principles like the president or ceo who used the backs of those business envelopes