Chapter 10 Two million dollars. When I came back to New York in the third week of February 1959, I had completely recovered from the shock of my mad period, and I began to invest in the market again | HOT I MADE 2 000 000 IN THE STOCK MARKET familiar. As though a veil was being lifted once again images started to form before my eyes giving me some view of the stock s future. In the days that followed my telegrams became clearer and clearer I started reading the quotes like my old self. Once more I could see that some of the stocks were stronger others weaker. Simultaneously my feeling started to return. Gradually like an invalid I began to regain my confidence. I recovered enough courage to try to approach the market again. But I had learned my lesson. I decided to make it a permanent rule that I must never visit a brokerage office again. Also my brokers must be prohibited from picking up the telephone and calling me. I must only have stock quotations by cable and nothing else. Even if I returned to the New York hotel the scene of my disastrous dealings which is within a short taxi ride of Wall Street my instructions would be unyielding. I must place Wall Street thousands of miles away from me. Every day my brokers must send me a telegram just as if I were in Hong Kong Karachi or Stockholm. Also my brokers must never quote any stock to me except the ones I asked for. They must not tell me about any new stock because that would immediately come into the rumor class. I would pick new stocks myself as I had always done by reading my weekly financial paper. When I saw one that interested me and seemed to be preparing for a rise I would ask for quotations. I would only ask for one new quotation at a time. Then as I did before I would study it carefully before deciding if it was worth going into. Like a man who has survived a plane crash and knows he must fly again immediately or lose his nerve I knew only one way of making this method foolproof. I booked myself on a plane back to New York. 118 CHAPTER. TEN Two Million Dollars hen I came back to New York in the third week of February 1959 1 had completely recovered from the shock of my mad period and I began to invest
