《股票作手回忆录·第六章·旧金山地震·做空联合太平洋》第7节
I have told some of these stories to friends, and some of them tell me it isn’t a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful. Possibly my friend’s unintelligent bullishness aroused a spirit of contradiction and I picked on UP. because it had been touted so much. I can’t tell you what the cause or motive for hunches may be. All I know is that I went out of the Atlantic City branch office of Harding Brothers short three thousand Union Pacific in a rising market, and I wasn’t worried a bit. I wanted to know what price they’d got for my last two thousand shares. So after luncheon we walked up to the office. I had the pleasure of seeing that the general market was strong and Union Pacific higher. “I see your finish,” said my friend. You could see he was glad he hadn’t sold any. The next day the general market went up some more and I heard nothing but cheerful remarks from my friend. But I felt sure I had done right to sell UP., and I never get impatient when I feel I am right. What’s the sense? That afternoon Union Pacific stopped climbing, and toward the end of the day began to go off. Pretty soon it got down to a point below the level of the average of my three thousand shares. I felt more positive than ever that I was on the right side, and since I felt that way I naturally had to sell some more. So, toward the close, I sold an additional two thousand shares.
注释摘要
这一段，利弗莫尔罕见地放下了他惯常的、笃定的交易者姿态，转而像一个困惑的哲学家一样，开始审视自己那股神秘的“预感”到底从何而来。他不再仅仅复述“我卖了，因为我感觉到了”，而是邀请读者和他一起，进行一次心智的考古。这在整本书里都是很特殊的时刻，因为它将这部文学作品从冒险故事，提升到了对人类潜意识运作机制的探讨。 在1906年那个时代，弗洛伊德的精神分析学说刚…