《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13节
Early that fall I not only was cleaned out again but I was so sick of the game I could no longer beat that I decided to leave New York and try something else some other place. I had been trading since my fourteenth year. I had made my first thousand dollars when I was a kid of fifteen, and my first ten thousand before I was twenty-one. I had made and lost a ten-thousand-dollar stake more than once. In New York I had made thousands and lost them. I got up to fifty thousand dollars and two days later that went. I had no other business and knew no other game. After several years I was back where I began. No--worse, for I had acquired habits and a style of living that required money; though that part didn’t bother me as much as being wrong so consistently.
注释摘要
这一段独白，是年轻的杰西·利弗莫尔在纽约华尔街经历了他投机生涯中最辉煌也最惨烈的时刻之后，一次精神上的总崩溃和告别。这段文字发生在1901年的秋天，距离他初到纽约已经过去了一段时间。我们需要理解他此时的心境，就必须先回到他刚刚经历的那场金融风暴——1901年5月9日，美国金融史上著名的北太平洋铁路逼空大战。 在当年的5月8日，一场围绕北太平洋铁路公司控制权…