《股票作手回忆录·第一章·少年与行情板》第19节
And the funniest thing was that not later than ten days after the Cosmopolitan people tried to double-cross me a New York operator did them out of over seventy thousand dollars. This man, who was quite a market factor in his day and a member of the New York Stock Exchange, made a great name for himself as a bear during the Bryan panic of ’96. He was forever running up against Stock Exchange rules that kept him from carrying out some of his plans at the expense of his fellow members. One day he figured that there would be no complaints from either the Exchange or the police authorities if he took from the bucket shops of the land some of their ill-gotten gains. In the instance I speak of he sent thirty-five men to act as customers. They went to the main office and to the bigger branches. On a certain day at a fixed hour the agents all bought as much of a certain stock as the managers would let them. They had instructions to sneak out at a certain profit. Of course what he did was to distribute bull tips on that stock among his cronies and then he went in to the floor of the Stock Exchange and bid up the price, helped by the room traders, who thought he was a good sport. Being careful to pick out the right stock for that work, there was no trouble in putting up the price three or four points. His agents at the bucket shops cashed in as prearranged.
注释摘要
讲这段故事，咱们得先回到1900年代美国股市那个泥沙俱下的草莽时期。这里提到的“对赌行”，是那个时代特有的产物。它表面上像股票经纪行，有行情板，有报价员，但它根本不把你的买卖指令传到真正的交易所去成交。它就是跟你对赌，你买涨，它赌你会亏，你所有的盈亏都是跟对赌行结算。说白了，它就是赌场，股价波动就是它的轮盘赌。这种模式之所以能大行其道，是因为当时信息传递慢…