Edwin Lefevre, author of original Jesse Livermore articles in the
Saturday Evening Post and
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. Lefevre wrote about Wall Street during the early 1900s, and enjoyed his greatest success writing about the stock market boom bust in the 1920s. During his career, he wrote eight books, worked for the
New York Sun, and served as financial editor of
Harper's Weekly. Jon D. Markman (Seattle, WA) is an award-winning journalist and popular market commentator and analyst. He won a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism for his columns explaining market chicanery in 2002 and a Society of Professional Journalist award for his 2001 reporting on Enron and the post-September 11 investment environment. He was a pioneer in the development of stock-rating system and screening software; he was a portfolio manager at a hedge fund; managing editor at CNBC on MSN money; and an investment columnist and investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He provides investment commentary on his Strategic Advantage and Trader's Advantage services. He is author of the books Swing Trading and Online Investing.