《股票作手回忆录·第六章·旧金山地震·做空联合太平洋》第15节
“The tape says they’re buying it,” I insisted. “Larry, I got heart disease when your orders began to come in. For the love of Mike, don’t be a sucker. Get out! Right away. It’s liable to bust wide open any minute. I’ve done my duty. Good-by!” And he hung up. Ed Harding was a very clever chap, unusually well-informed and a real friend, disinterested and kind-hearted. And what was even more, I knew he was in position to hear things. All I had to go by, in my purchases of UP., was my years of studying the behaviour of stocks and my perception of certain symptoms which experience had taught me usually accompanied a substantial rise. I don’t know what happened to me, but I suppose I must have concluded that my tape reading told me the stock was being absorbed simply because very clever manipulation by the insiders made the tape tell a story that wasn’t true. Possibly I was impressed by the pains Ed Harding took to stop me from making what he was so sure would be a colossal mistake on my part. Neither his brains nor his motives were to be questioned. Whatever it was that made me decide to follow his advice, I cannot tell you; but follow it, I did.
注释摘要
这段对话发生在萨拉托加度假期间。利弗莫尔退出地震做空之后，在哈丁兄弟公司的度假村营业厅里再次盯上了联合太平洋。他观察行情纸带，凭着多年练出的读盘功夫，认定这只股票正在被人悄无声息地大量吸筹，于是开始分批买入。就在他加仓加得正顺手的时候，营业厅经理接到纽约打来的长途电话，说公司老板爱德·哈丁要亲自跟他讲话。哈丁一上来就劈头盖脸地质问他是不是疯了，叫他立刻清掉…