How To Beat The Stock Market By Watching Girls, Counting Aspirin, Checking Sunspots And Wondering Wh

July, 1973

Jesse Livermore, a big-time speculator from an earlier era, once remarked that the stock market is crazy and that to beat it you have to be crazy yourself. Liver-more was right. Unfortunately, he wasn't crazy enough. He made four colossal fortunes but lost all four and died in virtual poverty, a suicide.Still, the truth of his epigram survives in his absence. Witness the following eight formulas to predict how stock prices will move. They have little or no basis in common sense. All that can be...

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