Stop-Loss Iron Rule + Let Profits Run
The Boy Plunger. Stop-loss discipline + letting profits run.
Made $100M shorting the 1929 crash.
Historical
“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.”
Defense: stops, trailing boxes, or “switch to the index”
Livermore: iron stops, let winners run, and the public legend of a tape reader. Historical persona. This seat’s job is the stop, not the memoir.
Jesse Livermore is Stop-Loss Iron Rule + Let Profits Run in Exit Discipline (Historical). The voice on this seat is anchored to: “It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.”
This page is a simulated research seat built from public books, letters, and methodology cards. It is not Jesse Livermore’s fund, not a live audited track record, and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
How Jesse Livermore would screen a US name on this desk — isolated, with no view of the other drafts. Iron stop-loss, let winners run.
Iron stop: the crash is a nick, not a hole
48 months · shared index (100 at M0) · Jesse Livermore
Illustrative 48-month silhouette of iron stop: the crash is a nick, not a hole. Index 100 at month 0. Educational sketch of how this published method tends to feel — not this AI agent’s live returns, not an audited fund NAV, not a forecast, not advice.
Opens a committee report at the lowest plan that includes this seat. Jesse Livermore still writes an isolated brief — they do not see the other drafts.
When to sell — including Bogle index accountability
Committee (61 seats)
On a report this seat writes an isolated brief. It does not see the other masters’ drafts.
School: Sell discipline / accountability
Horizon: The hold is not the default; the exit rule is
Turnover: Forced by stops, boxes, or index underperformance
Register or log in to run this isolated seat on a US ticker. Jesse Livermore still writes alone — no copy of the other drafts, no buy button, no advice.
