《股票作手回忆录·第九章·1907大恐慌·做空封神》第22节
Please do not misunderstand me. It was not a deliberate dream of grandeur or a futile desire born of overweening vanity. It was rather a sort of feeling that the same old stock market that so baffled me in Fullerton’s office and in Harding’s would one day eat out of my hand. I just felt that such a day would come. And it did--October 24, 1907. The reason why I say it is this: That morning a broker who had done a lot of business for my brokers and knew that I had been plunging on the bear side rode down in the company of one of the partners of the foremost banking house in the Street. My friend told the banker how heavily I had been trading, for I certainly pushed my luck to the limit. What is the use of being right unless you get all the good possible out of it. Perhaps the broker exaggerated to make his story sound important. Perhaps I had more of a following than I knew. Perhaps the banker knew far better than I how critical the situation was. At all events, my friend said to me: “He listened with great interest to what I told him you said the market was going to do when the real selling began, after another push or two. When I got through he said he might have something for me to do later in the day.”
注释摘要
这段自白发生在一个极不寻常的历史时刻。利文斯顿刚刚经历了1907年10月24日下午那场著名的恐慌，当时整个纽约证券交易所几乎因为流动性枯竭而停摆。要理解他此刻的心情，需要先看清一个背景：在那个下午，交易所的货币站台上挤满了借不到钱的经纪人，没有任何一家银行愿意拆出隔夜资金，股票的买方完全消失，联合太平洋这样的蓝筹股一度没有任何人报价买入。正是J. P. 摩…