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at 14, he ran away from a poor farm with almost nothing. at 52, he made $100 million during the 1929 crash while america collapsed. at 63, he died with almost nothing left. this is the story of jesse livermore, the greatest trader wall street has ever seen. he started as a chalk boy at a boston brokerage, writing stock prices on a board all day. but he noticed something nobody else did. the prices moved in patterns. so he started betting on them. by 15 he had made his first $1,000. by his late teens he was winning so much that betting shops banned him. they called him "the boy plunger." then came 1907. the market crashed. banks were failing. livermore bet everything on the fall and made $1 million in one day. it got so bad that jp morgan himself sent someone to ask him to stop. he did. the market recovered. he was 30. then came 1929. the biggest crash in history. people lost their homes. their savings. their lives. livermore made $100 million. close to $2 billion today. newspapers called him "the great bear of wall street." some even blamed him for the crash. he had mansions, yachts, a private train car. and within a few years, it was all gone. reckless bets. breaking his own rules. spending like the money would never stop. he went bankrupt more than once. his marriage fell apart. his family was torn apart. in 1940, the man who once beat the entire market died with almost nothing left. he knew how to make money better than anyone alive. he never learned how to keep it.