Show KID COTTON KING BROKE jesse L livermore kid cot tonking cotton king it at the age of 31 when ho he looked more as aa it if he were only 21 has gone the way of the speculator jesse Is broke out of three big guesses as to which way the cotton market would go he be guessed right once that guess brought b him ira but he lost of this bulling the market in august of 1908 the price of cotton suddenly dropped a bale bala this last time jesse sold cold short in cotton and also in ID wheat in both of which the wheat king of chicago james A patten has been operating ratten rato guessed right but livermore moro 0 consequently his name has been erased from the doors of E V F hutton co it jesse first saw the light in shrewsbury mass haa ss in 1877 ills his first speculative attempt netted him with a boy friend ho he took a flyer in burl inato n quincy in a local buchet shop in 1893 just 16 years old you see sec by the time he was waa 21 fie bad or all made in speculation |