The book is "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" by Edwin Lefevre. ISBN 0-471-05970-6 I have been referring to it as ROSO because I have to think to hard to spell "Reminiscences". :)
Look forward to seeing you at the TT site.
ps. I really do know what carpediem means. I'm just having trouble getting my "serious hat" on today. I did 3 years of Latin at HS. However, the only thing I remember is the poem we used to put in the front of our books.
Latin is a language As dead as dead can be It killed the Ancient Romans And now it's killing me.