经典重译之股票大作手回忆录(345)
股票大作手回忆录(375)
原文(375):
Of course,when I found that morning a market in which I could sell out all my stocks without any trouble I did so.When you are selling out it is no wiser or braver to sell fifty shares than fifty thousand;but fifty shares you can sell in the dullest market without breaking the price and fifty thousand shares of a single stock is a different proposition.
I had seventy-two thousand shares of U.S.Steel.This may not seem a colossal line,but you can't always sell that much without losing some of that profit that looks so nice on paper when you figure it out and that hurts as much to lose as if you actually had it safe in bank.
I had a total profit of about $1,500,000 and I grabbed it while the grabbing was good.But that wasn't the principal reason for thinking that I did the right thing in selling out when I did.
The market proved it for me and that was indeed a source of satisfaction to me.It was this way:I succeeded in selling my entire line of seventy-two thousand shares of U.S.Steel at a price which averaged me just one point from the top of the day and of the movement.
It proved that I was right,to the minute.But when,on the very same hour of the very same day I came to sell my 5000 Utah Copper,the price broke five points.
Please recall that I began buying both stocks at the same time and that I acted wisely in increasing my line of U.S.Steel from twenty thousand shares to seventy-two thousand,and equally wisely in not increasing my line of Utah from the original 5000 shares.
其他版本译文(375):
那天早上,当市场出现一个让我不费吹灰之力就能卖出股票的时机时,我及时出手了。你在出清持投的时候,卖掉50股和5万股一样需要聪明勇敢,可是在市场不景气的时候,卖掉50股不会致使股价下滑,但卖出5万股就不一样了。我手里有美国钢铁公司的7.2万股,这不算什么大数量的持股,不过也不能卖掉这么多还不会使账面上看起来能获得的那些利润遭受损失,这种损失会与你银行里存着的钱一样,亏损了会让你一样心痛。我的利润大概有150万美元,股市行情好的时候,我拥有这些利润,可这不能成为我觉得卖掉对了的理由。市场会为我证明对不对,这一点我也确实很满意。是这样的:我把手中美国钢铁公司的7.2万股全部卖掉了,卖出的平均价格恰好比这天股市行情的最高价低了不到1个点。这就说明我做得非常符合时机。但是就在当天的同一小时里,我卖掉5000股犹他州铜矿公司股票时价格跌了5个点。你想啊,我可是同时买进的这两只股票啊。我非常聪明地把美国钢铁公司的股票从2万股增持到了7.2万股,同样我也聪明地没有增持犹他州铜矿的股票。
我的译文(375):
那天早上,我发现市场一片大好,这个时候我即使把手里的股票全卖了,也不会遇到任何麻烦,自然,我就开始平仓卖出了。
(市场环境好的时候,多卖点少卖点都无所谓),卖出5万股与卖出50股相比,卖的多了也不代表需要你有更大的智慧或勇气。
(关键是要看市场是否足够活跃),如果市场不活跃,那么你卖出的时候,想要不使市场跳水,你也许只能卖出50股。
那种情况下,如果你要在单只股票上,卖出5万股,那可就不同了。
我持有七万两千股美国钢铁公司的股票。这看起来或许算不上多么巨额的持仓,但卖出这么多,又不会导致浮盈受损,可不是总能做到的,本来这些浮盈是非常可观的,可如果不能完整兑现,那种受损的心痛,就好像弄丢了已存进银行里的钱。
我当时的浮盈总计有150万美元,我不失时机的及时兑现了。我说我卖对了,卖的恰到好处,可不是因为我保住了浮盈,这不是主要原因。
对于美国钢铁,我成功卖出了我的全部持仓。后续的市场走势证明,我当时卖出的平均成交价格,距离当日最高点,只差一个点位。而当天的那个最高点,也是那一轮行情的最高点。
是市场证明了我的正确,这一点让我着实感到满意。
而且市场证明在美国钢铁上,我的准确程度,已经精准到了分钟级别。因为就在当天的同一个小时里,当我接下来去卖出那5000股Utah Copper时,5000股的卖出量,便直接导致该股价格跳水了5个点。
还记得吗,我可是在同一时间开始买入这两只股票的。我明智地将美国钢铁的仓位从两万股增加到了七万两千股,而同样明智的是,对于Utah这只股票,我再也没有多买入一股。
引用依据:
1. Edwin Lefèvre: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
2. 《股票大作手回忆录》([美] 埃德温·勒菲弗 著,汤前燕 译)
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