《股票作手回忆录·第九章·1907大恐慌·做空封神》第13节
I cabled some selling orders in Smelter and advised my friends in New York to go short of it. When I got my report from the brokers I saw the price they got was six points below the quotations I had seen in the Paris Herald. It shows you what the situation was. My plans had been to return to Paris at the end of the month and about three weeks later sail for New York, but as soon as I received the cabled reports from my brokers I went back to Paris. The same day I arrived I called at the steamship offices and found there was a fast boat leaving for New York the next day. I took it. There I was, back in New York, almost a month ahead of my original plans, because it was the most comfortable place to be short of the market in. I had well over half a million in cash available for margins. My return was not due to my being bearish but to my being logical.
注释摘要
在这一段里，我们看到一个非常典型的利文斯顿式的瞬间——这个人物最令人着迷的地方，不在于他永远正确，而在于他对自己逻辑判断那种几乎是条件反射般的信任与执行力。他此时人在法国度假，巴黎的奢华与安逸并没有钝化他的嗅觉。当他隔着大西洋，仅仅通过《巴黎先驱报》上的一则新闻，看到冶炼公司宣布派发额外股息时，他体内的投机本能立刻被唤醒。在1907年的语境里，一家公司突然…