Robin Wigglesworth
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292 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Robin Wigglesworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And at first he loses money, of course, but then the crescendo breaks, essentially.
Yeah, that's Black Thursday, right?
The market suddenly just hits an air pocket.
It drops 11% and it just keeps falling.
I mean, the ticker tape, I remember reading the ticker tape machines, these famous ticker tapes in brokerage houses around the country, they were unable to keep up with the volume of...
of information and selling coming uh essentially you know obviously people start literally committing suicide of course yeah how does jesse livermore react to all this because he's been building quietly this massive big short essentially for a while
He's quintupled his fortune from before the crash on this massive one big short, essentially the OG big shorts.
Yeah.
I mean, you think most proper speculators and traders would feel like if they'd shorted the biggest bubble in the history of mankind and made generational wealth, that would be the high point of their life.
But it does seem to really be the beginning of the end.
It kind of left him hollow, I think he told his friends, and empty and depressed.
Yeah, and this blows my mind, but he managed to lose all that money.
Well, I guess it's almost a bit like if you're an addict, you're always looking for a higher high.
And reality, as you keep chasing it, you take in the market unnecessary risk.
And he went bankrupt again in 1934.
Only five years after his triumphant massive trading haul, he's bankrupt.
Which, look, really, like, Rob, you and I, we've never been bankrupt.
So I think really we're better at this than Jesse Livermore.
I know.
Yeah.
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