《股票作手回忆录·第十四章·游戏永不变·人性永不变》第10节
So day after day, broke and anxious to resume trading, I sat in front of a quotation-board in another broker’s office where I couldn’t buy or sell as much as one share of stock, studying the market, not missing a single transaction on the tape, watching for the psychological moment to ring the full-speed-ahead bell. By reason of conditions known to the whole world the stock I was most bullish on in those critical days of early 1915 was Bethlehem Steel. I was morally certain it was going way up, but in order to make sure that I would win on my very first play, as I must, I decided to wait until it crossed par. I think I have told you it has been my experience that whenever a stock crosses 100 or 200 or 300 for the first time, it nearly always keeps going up for 30 to 50 points--and after 300 faster than after 100 or 200. One of my first big coups was in Anaconda, which I bought when it crossed 200 and sold a day later at 260. My practice of buying a stock just after it crossed par dated back to my early bucket-shop days. It is an old trading principle.
注释摘要
这段话是全章乃至整部回忆录里最具戏剧张力的片段之一。我们看到的不是那个叱咤风云、几百万美元进出的大作手，而是一个身无分文、连一股都买不起的人，坐在别人的经纪行里盯着报价板，像猎人一样等待一个瞬间。一九一五年初的华尔街刚刚从大萧条和战争的阴影里苏醒：纽约证券交易所在前一年七月三十一日关闭了将近五个月，到一九一四年十二月中旬才恢复交易，整个市场资金枯竭、人气涣…