When the Cabot editors who spend their days in our Salem office get asked for their favorite investment books, there are always a few new titles that come up. But there are also a few titles that come up over and over again, and one of the most consistent is “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefevre. First published in 1923, the book is a fictionalized biography of legendary trader Jesse Livermore. Livermore was born in 1877, and began his career as a ticker boy in the bucket shops (businesses that took bets on stock prices, but didn’t...