Sentence examples for stock operator from inspiring English sources

One book I was often told to read was "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," first published in 1923.

And he ignores Mr. Sarnoff's claim that Mr. Livermore, not Mr. Lefèvre, actually wrote "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator".

Among financial history mavens, the most famous of those books is certainly "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," first published in 1923.

"The business was tremendously profitable," wrote Edwin Lefevre in his 1923 classic, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," a fictionalized memoir of the life of the speculator Jesse Livermore, who got his start in bucket shops.

Thus the reader does not know who told Mr. Sarnoff that Mr. Livermore, just before his death, had claimed authorship of "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," saying that Mr. Lefèvre served only as "editor and coach".

I mentioned once "Old Partridge", a character in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefèvre's account of the career of Jesse Livermore, who at the height of his success in the 1920s was among the richest men in America.

Mr. Milken, the former junk bond maestro at Drexel Burnham Lambert; Mr. Boesky, the former arbitrager-turned-insider trader; and Mr. Brennan, the former penny-stock operator, have all paid millions of dollars to the government and have been barred from the securities business.

And as for gold; well, his claims so far had been good enough only for penny-stock operators like Donald Gee.

While scrambling for green-energy investments they can trumpet in news releases, penny-stock operators invariably collide.

Capitalizing on the popular mania for sustainable energy, the penny-stock operators are converting failed Canadian mining outfits and Internet firms into green machines with names like Western Wind Energy and Hydrogen Power International.

Back then the area, in the James Bay Lowlands, 400 miles north of Toronto, was called McFauld's Lake and it drew the attention of the penny-stock operators because De Beers Group had earlier discovered signs of "pipes," or vertical volcanic deposits of the mineral kimberlite that often hold diamonds.