Before there were trading algorithms, Discord servers, and zero-commission brokers, there was Jesse Livermore—the man who famously made (and lost) millions by reading nothing but price and volume.

“I know he’s terrible, but isn’t he charming?” asked Dorothea Livermore, the wife of the Wall Street tycoon Jesse Livermore, of the man who broke into her bedroom late one 1927 night and ...

Jesse Livermore ran away from home to pursue his dream of trading in the stock market, making his first profits by betting at bucket shops, before eventually making it to New York and becoming a ...