《股票作手回忆录·第一章·少年与行情板》第6节
“How are you going to play it?” “I’m going to buy all the Burlington the bucket shop will let me carry with the money I give him for margin,” he said. “It’s going up sure. It’s like picking up money. We’ll double ours in a jiffy.” “Hold on!” I said to him, and pulled out my little dope book. I wasn’t interested in doubling my money, but in his saying that Burlington was going up. If it was, my note-book ought to show it. I looked. Sure enough, Burlington, according to my figuring, was acting as it usually did before it went up. I had never bought or sold anything in my life, and I never gambled with the other boys. But all I could see was that this was a grand chance to test the accuracy of my work, of my hobby. It struck me at once that if my dope didn’t work in practice there was nothing in the theory of it to interest anybody. So I gave him all I had, and with our pooled resources he went to one of the near-by bucket shops and bought some Burlington. Two days later we cashed in. I made a profit of $3.12.
注释摘要
咱们来看看这一段。要理解它，得先回到一百多年前的美国股票市场，认识一个叫“对赌行”的地方。 在1900年前后的美国，真正的股票交易所是会员制的，普通人想买卖股票，得通过经纪人，而且一股的价格动辄几十上百美元。可对赌行完全不是这样。它们在街道旁、酒店大堂里开得遍地都是，里面有一块大黑板写着行情，有一台电报机滴滴答答地接收纽约传来的价格。你走进去，掏几块钱，就…