《股票作手回忆录·第十二章·棉花惨败·被专家说服》第20节
Just think of it! If you know much about the average customer of the average commission house you will agree with me that the hope of making the stock market pay your bill is one of the most prolific sources of loss in Wall Street. You will chip out all you have if you adhere to your determination. Why, in Harding’s office one winter a little bunch of high flyers spent thirty or forty thousand dollars for an overcoat--and not one of them lived to wear it. It so happened that a prominent floor trader--who since has become world-famous as one of the dollar-a-year men--came down to the Exchange wearing a fur overcoat lined with sea otter. In those days, before furs went up sky high, that coat was valued at only ten thousand dollars. Well, one of the chaps in Harding’s office, Bob Keown, decided to get a coat lined with Russian sable. He priced one uptown. The cost was about the same, ten thousand dollars. “That’s the devil of a lot of money,” objected one of the fellows. “Oh, fair! Fair!” admitted Bob Keown amiably. “About a week’s wages--unless you guys promise to present it to me as a slight but sincere token of the esteem in which you hold the nicest man in the office. Do I hear the presentation speech? No? Very well. I shall let the stock market buy it for me!”
注释摘要
这段文字里，利弗莫尔讲了一个看似荒唐滑稽、实则一针见血的故事，用一件皮大衣把华尔街上最普遍也最败家的心态给演活了。咱们得先回到当年的现场去看看，这故事里头的门道才能品得透。 先说说故事发生的地点，哈丁的办公室。我们在前面章节知道，哈丁兄弟公司是当时华尔街上一家颇有声望的股票经纪行，也就是文中所说的“佣金行”。在那个年代，这类佣金行不仅是客户下单的地方，更像…