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原文(128):
There were times when my plans went wrong and my stocks did not run true to form,but did the opposite of what they should have done if they had kept up their regard for precedent.But they did not hit me very hard—they couldn’t,with my shoestring margins.My relations with my brokers were friendly enough.Their accounts and records did not always agree with mine,and the differences uniformly happened to be against me.Curious coincidence—not!But I fought for my own and usually had my way in the end.They always had the hope of getting away from me what I had taken from them.They regarded my winnings as temporary loans,I think.
They really were not sporty,being in the business to make money by hook or by crook instead of being content with the house percentage.Since suckers always lose money when they gamble in stocks—they never really speculate—you’d think these fellows would run what you might call a legitimate illegitimate business.But they didn’t.“Copper your customers and grow rich”is an old and true adage,but they did not seem ever to have heard of it and didn’t stop at plain bucketing.
其他版本譯文(128):
我的計(jì)劃也有失敗的時(shí)候,選擇的股票走勢(shì)跟我的預(yù)期發(fā)展完全不一樣。不過這對(duì)我沒造成什么損傷,因?yàn)槲业谋WC金不多。我與經(jīng)紀(jì)人關(guān)系處理得也還不錯(cuò),他們的賬目和記錄常常跟我的不同,自然是想坑我。這是多巧的事情——人為制造的巧合。每次遇到這類情況,我都會(huì)竭盡全力維護(hù)自己的利益,基本上都是以我獲勝結(jié)束。他們也拼著命想從我手中撈走我撈來的錢,可能他們覺得我賺的錢只是暫時(shí)性的貸款。
他們真的不正派,因?yàn)樗麄兛克;ㄕ谢蛟O(shè)騙局賺錢,對(duì)經(jīng)紀(jì)商應(yīng)該賺取的利潤(rùn)不滿意。一味地想著發(fā)大財(cái)?shù)娜丝倳?huì)賠本——他們從來不慎重,你或許覺得他們?cè)诤戏ǖ刈龇欠ㄉ?。其?shí)不是這樣。“把客戶當(dāng)上帝才能賺錢?!边@是經(jīng)得起推敲的古訓(xùn),可是他們卻視而不見,就想著靠欺騙換錢。
我的譯文(128):
當(dāng)然我也有判斷失誤的時(shí)候,我是根據(jù)股票的歷史表現(xiàn)來判斷它接下來會(huì)怎么走,但即使實(shí)際走勢(shì)與我的預(yù)期正好相反,也不會(huì)對(duì)我造成重創(chuàng),因?yàn)槲腋冻龅谋WC金很少。
我的經(jīng)紀(jì)人們對(duì)我還是很慷慨的,如果比較我和他們的資金賬戶,我的賬戶余額是一路均勻上漲,而他們則是一路均勻下跌。
這是巧合嗎?不,這不是巧合,這并不奇怪,
他們總是對(duì)我抱有這樣一種幻想,一切只是暫時(shí)的,他們輸給我的錢,只是給我的短期貸款而已,不遠(yuǎn)的將來,他們一定能連本帶利的收回來,但通常我都是贏家,我想,也許因?yàn)槲沂菫樽约憾鴳?zhàn)斗。
他們真的是下作,只是像正規(guī)經(jīng)紀(jì)公司那樣抽取傭金,不能滿足他們的胃口,于是他們便不擇手段的給客戶下套,而那些炒股的韭菜們,他們也從來不是真正在投機(jī),他們只是賭徒,輸錢對(duì)他們來說就是家常便飯。
也許你認(rèn)為這些偽經(jīng)紀(jì)商只是鉆了法律的空子,但他們可不僅僅是這樣,關(guān)于做生意,有句古訓(xùn)說的好,誠(chéng)信經(jīng)營(yíng)才是致富之道,但他們似乎從未聽說過這句話,只是一味的給客戶打窩下套,中飽私囊。
我的評(píng)注(128):
1.這一段,對(duì)于了解利弗莫爾的三觀,真的很重要,對(duì)于那些偽經(jīng)紀(jì)商的評(píng)價(jià),已經(jīng)不是局限于法律層面了,而是從做人的道德上旗幟鮮明斥責(zé)他們,在他們那個(gè)時(shí)代,經(jīng)濟(jì)大發(fā)展的初期,新興事物風(fēng)起云涌,法律難免滯后,但做人的道德是古已有之的,法無禁止皆可為,從法律層面,無可厚非,但也許不是法律沒有禁止你,而是還沒想到,還沒來得及禁止你,此時(shí)如果再無視道德,那產(chǎn)生各種亂象,就一點(diǎn)也不奇怪了。所以道德不是可有可無的,不是枯燥的說教,更是法律所無法替代的。
2. 說完嚴(yán)肅的,再說點(diǎn)輕松的。在與偽經(jīng)紀(jì)商斗智斗勇的過程中,利弗莫爾的策略初見成效,由于他將資金分散在幾家公司中操作,每一家的交易規(guī)模都不大,成功蒙蔽了這些騙子們,沒有引起他們的關(guān)注,只是把他當(dāng)成了一棵暫時(shí)運(yùn)氣還不錯(cuò)的韭菜。一出好戲,正在上演。