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Jesse Livermore / Jesse Livermore

Jesse Livermore – great trader started 20 century. One of the earliest trend traders. Among traders and investors Jesse Livermore was known by the nicknames "Young Grip" (Boy Plunger) and "Miracle baby" (Wonder Boy). He became famous for winning and losing millions of fortunes during the stock market crises. 1907 And 1929 years. Jesse Livermore was born in Massachusetts, in a family of farmers, and left home at fifteen, to later become a great trader (according to legend stagecoach, where he left, stopped near a brokerage office, defining the profession of a young man). His mother supported him, unwilling son, per year completed a three-year mathematics course, farmer's fate, father was against. At his first job in Boston, Jesse Livermore wrote quotes on the board at the brokerage office of Payne Webber.

Henry Cluse / Henry Clews

Henry Cluse was born in England in 1836 year, and in 1850 emigrated to the United States. Kluz started out as a clerk in a large importing company and only later moved into the financial business.. Close became a member of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the panic 1857 of the year, during which prices fell by about 50 Percent. “This crisis sounded like a funeral march for the old conservatism on Street, – wrote Kluz. – A younger race of financiers emerged, filling the places of the old conservative leaders ". For all his extravagance, Clouse was a value investor. He understood, that “at the heart of all this stormy mass of facts are the laws of nature; if we study them in relation to the objects they control, they (laws) will work the same way, like the rising of the sun ".

Bernard Baruch / Bernard Baruch

Bernard Mannis Baruch (Bernard Mannes Baruch) – American financier, speculator, as well as a politician and statesman. Bernard Baruch was born 19 august 1870 in Campden, South Carolina and was the second of four sons of Simon and Bell Baruch. His father, Simon Baruch (1840—1921), German immigrant of Jewish origin immigrated to the USA from Germany 1855. Physician by profession, during the civil war he served in the army of the southerners and was one of the founders of physiotherapy. IN 1881 his family moved to New York, where Bernard went to City College (City College of New York). After graduating from college, Bernard Baruch began working for Houseman and Company. (A. A. Housman and Company). Moving up the career ladder, he became a broker, and then partner A. A. Housman and Co., and seven years later he already owned an eighth of this brokerage house. The source of his income was part of the commission, received by him from each transaction of the client.

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