《股票作手回忆录·第六章·旧金山地震·做空联合太平洋》第6节
“A million things could happen. But I can’t promise you that any of them will. I can’t give you any reasons and I can’t tell fortunes,” I told him. “Then you’re crazy,” he said. “Stark crazy, selling that stock without rime or reason. You don’t know why you want to sell it?” “I don’t know why I want to sell it. I only know I do want to,” I said. “I want to, like everything.” The urge was so strong that I sold another thousand. That was too much for my friend. He grabbed me by the arm and said, “Here! Let’s get out of this place before you sell the entire capital stock.” I had sold as much as I needed to satisfy my feeling, so I followed him without waiting for a report on the last two thousand shares. It was a pretty good jag of stock for me to sell even with the best of reasons. It seemed more than enough to be short of without any reason whatever, particularly when the entire market was so strong and there was nothing in sight to make anybody think of the bear side. But I remembered that on previous occasions when I had the same urge to sell and didn’t do it I always had reasons to regret it.
注释摘要
1906年的春天，拉里·利文斯顿在大西洋城的木板道上散步，这本来只是他短暂假期里一个再平常不过的上午。那时的美国股市正处于一个被普遍看好的环境，行情坚挺，几乎所有迹象都指向更高的价格。他那位也在哈丁兄弟公司做交易的朋友正是个死多头，手里攥着从低点买上来的股票，一路上都在念叨继续持有是多么明智的决定。而利文斯顿呢？他其实什么都没想，他连市场都懒得盯，走进哈丁…