《股票作手回忆录·第一章·少年与行情板》第9节
I didn’t have a following. I kept my business to myself. It was a one-man business, anyhow. It was my head, wasn’t it? Prices either were going the way I doped them out, without any help from friends or partners, or they were going the other way, and nobody could stop them out of kindness to me. I couldn’t see where I needed to tell my business to anybody else. I’ve got friends, of course, but my business has always been the same--a one-man affair. That is why I have always played a lone hand. As it was, it didn’t take long for the bucket shops to get sore on me for beating them. I’d walk in and plank down my margin, but they’d look at it without making a move to grab it. They’d tell me there was nothing doing. That was the time they got to calling me the Boy Plunger. I had to be changing brokers all the time, going from one bucket shop to another. It got so that I had to give a fictitious name. I’d begin light, only fifteen or twenty shares. At times, when they got suspicious, I’d lose on purpose at first and then sting them proper. Of course after a while they’d find me too expensive and they’d tell me to take myself and my business elsewhere and not interfere with the owners’ dividends.
注释摘要
在这段文字里，Larry Livingston——也就是杰西·利弗莫尔的文学化身——用一种极其自负又带点少年意气的口吻，道出了他投机生涯早期最核心的一条行为准则：独自操作，不与人合伙，也不跟风。这里要先说明一点，《股票作手回忆录》是记者埃德温·勒菲弗根据利弗莫尔的口述和经历，以第一人称重写的文学性自传。书中的Larry Livingston就是利弗莫尔的化…