《股票作手回忆录·第六章·旧金山地震·做空联合太平洋》第13节
Of course I watched the market. With me, to look at the quotation board and to read the signs is one process. My good friend Union Pacific, I noticed, looked like going up. The price was high, but the stock acted as if it were being accumulated. I watched it a couple of days without trading in it, and the more I watched it the more convinced I became that it was being bought on balance by somebody who was no piker, somebody who not only had a big bank roll but knew what was what. Very clever accumulation, I thought. As soon as I was sure of this I naturally began to buy it, at about 160. It kept on acting all hunky, and so I kept on buying it, five hundred shares at a clip. The more I bought the stronger it got, without any spurt, and I was feeling very comfortable. I couldn’t see any reason why that stock shouldn’t go up a great deal more; not with what I read on the tape. All of a sudden the manager came to me and said they’d got a message from New York--they had a direct wire of course--asking if I was in the office, and when they answered yes, another came saying: “Keep him there. Tell him Mr. Harding wants to speak to him.”
注释摘要
让我们回到1906年夏天的萨拉托加温泉，那是当时美国上流社会避暑的胜地，哈丁兄弟公司在这里设有分公司，用意与其说是做生意，不如说是一种高雅的广告——在富人扎堆的地方挂个招牌，本身就是招牌。利弗莫尔那时已不是当年在对赌行里搏命的小伙子了，旧金山地震那次凭借直觉做空联合太平洋，让他赚了二十五万美元，他的账户规模已经上了台阶。 说到这段文字里的“行情纸带”，在1…