《股票作手回忆录·第十四章·游戏永不变·人性永不变》第13节
There is a great deal in starting right, whatever the enterprise may be, and I did very well after my Bethlehem deal--so well, indeed, that you would not have believed it was the selfsame man trading. As a matter of fact I wasn’t the same man, for where I had been harassed and wrong I was now at ease and right. There were no creditors to annoy and no lack of funds to interfere with my thinking or with my listening to the truthful voice of experience, and so I was winning right along. All of a sudden, as I was on my way to a sure fortune, we had the Lusitania break. Every once in a while a man gets a crack like that in the solar plexus, probably that he may be reminded of the sad fact that no human being can be so uniformly right on the market as to be beyond the reach of unprofitable accidents. I have heard people say that no professional speculator need have been hit very hard by the news of the torpedoing of the Lusitania, and they go on to tell how they had it long before the Street did. I was not clever enough to escape by means of advance information, and all I can tell you is that on account of what I lost through the Lusitania break and one or two other reverses that I wasn’t wise enough to foresee, I found myself at the end of 1915 with a balance at my brokers’ of about one hundred and forty thousand dollars. That was all I actually made, though I was consistently right on the market throughout the greater part of the year.
注释摘要
我们来仔细看看这一段。利弗莫尔在这里做了一个极其坦诚的自我解剖。他说，在他完成伯利恒钢铁那笔神来之笔后，交易成绩好得像是换了一个人。他紧接着解释，这并非什么玄学，而是一个非常直白的道理：“我确实不再是同一个人了，因为之前我被困扰着，行事错误；现在我心境轻松，行事正确。”困扰他的，是那笔超过一百万美元的沉重债务和几个纠缠不休的债主。债务清零后，那种精神上的重…