《股票作手回忆录·第三章·初到纽约·对赌行的赢法为何失灵》第3节
My task, as I should have known after my early reverses at Fullerton’s, was very simple: To look at speculation from another angle. But I didn’t know that there was much more to the game than I could possibly learn in the bucket shops. There I thought I was beating the game when in reality I was only beating the shop. At the same time the tape-reading ability that trading in bucket-shops developed in me and the training of my memory have been extremely valuable. Both of these things came easy to me. I owe my early success as a trader to them and not to my brains or knowledge, because my mind was untrained and my ignorance was colossal. The game taught me the game. And it didn’t spare the rod while teaching. I remember my very first day in New York. I told you how the bucket shops, by refusing to take my business, drove me to seek a reputable commission house. One of the boys in the office where I got my first job was working for Harding Brothers, members of the New York Stock Exchange. I arrived in this city in the morning, and before one o’clock that same day I had opened an account with the firm and was ready to trade.
注释摘要
这一段是利弗莫尔整个投机生涯中一次至关重要的自我解剖。他承认自己从对赌行带到纽约的问题，但这份承认里藏着年轻人特有的傲慢——他以为自己只是工具没用好，却不知道是整个思维方式需要推倒重来。 对赌行在那个时代的美国非常盛行。它是一种场外交易场所，客户不真正买卖股票，而是赌股价的涨跌方向。你在对赌行下的单子不会送到交易所，店家自己跟你对赌，你亏的钱直接进了他们的…