Chapter 206: Huddle together for warmth
Perhaps even Liu Zhongzhou himself did not realize that the anger he erupted against Huang Hongliang this morning was largely due to blaming Huang Hongliang for not objecting in the first place, rather than because of the commonplace trivial matter of being late. Otherwise, Liu Zhongzhou himself would not have fallen into such an embarrassing situation.
This deep-seated reason, that is, he is free from the futures price, does not understand and does not care about the market price, and Jiang Hua, who is focused on speculation and drilling, can understand it. Other people, including the scolded Huang Hongliang himself, couldn't think of this at all.
As for Li Xin's several answers today, either they obviously failed to meet Liu Zhongzhou's requirements, or they once again disagreed with Liu Zhongzhou's opinions.
But this scene that many people are looking forward to just didn't happen today.
The reason for this is also related to Li Xin's attitude at the first meeting to discuss hedging, when Li Xin's attitude was bullish and opposed to selling hedging. Now it seems that Li Xin's opinion is right, in this case, no matter how big Liu Zhongzhou's temper is, he can only find another place to vent.
At this time, he scolded Li Xin because of other trivial things, Li Xin is the kind of character who eats soft and does not eat hard, if he is forced to be anxious, in the case of his own reason, Li Xin can hardly say that he will fight on the basis of reason, defend himself, and say something extremely unfavorable to Liu Zhongzhou in public. The scheming Liu Zhongzhou will not fail to see this, he will not do that kind of mindless thing.
But why did Huang Hongliang's initial support cause today's predicament, and Liu Zhongzhou still asked to listen to Huang Hongliang's opinion by name at the meeting today? At first, Jiang Hua couldn't figure it out, but later he figured it out: Under the current predicament, Liu Zhongzhou needs Huang Hongliang's support even more, and if Huang Hongliang's descendants don't stand with him at this time, wouldn't Liu Zhongzhou be even more difficult to stand alone?
After thinking about this, Jiang Hua couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart: It's really like a companion to a tiger! No wonder as soon as he entered Liu Zhongzhou's office this morning, he was questioned by his nose and face, and the reason was here. At the beginning, he also expressed his support for Liu Zhongzhou to be bearish on hedging, and he didn't treat himself like Huang Hongliang today, which is already good!
But even if Jiang Hua sees through this, he will still follow Liu Zhongzhou's lead. The reason is very simple, the examples of Huang Hongliang and Li Xin are in front of them, whether they support Liu Zhongzhou or not, they will be scolded sooner or later. In contrast, supporting Liu Zhongzhou to be scolded, because he holds the same position as Liu Zhongzhou and stands with Liu Zhongzhou, so even if the sky falls, there is a tall man like Liu Zhongzhou on top, and he will not have much to do. It's different to oppose Liu Zhongzhou, in addition to being scolded, he also has to bear other responsibilities, Jiang Hua will not do such a stupid thing.
This is Jiang Hua's normal state, he doesn't have to work too hard to figure out the stakes.
And Li Xin is different, he can figure out a lot of things in futures, but he can't figure out what Jiang Hua can figure out without much effort.
This is the fundamental difference between Li Xin and Jiang Hua.
Therefore, when he heard Liu Zhongzhou ask, "Do you agree with my opinion?" Jiang Hua hesitated slightly, then looked at Liu Zhongzhou and nodded, indicating that he agreed with his opinion.
Followed by Huang Hongliang and Zheng Guorui, who agreed with each other, they almost had the same idea: they should have reminded themselves of the risks, and Liu Zhongzhou had even taken into account the double risk that Li Xin said, and there seemed to be no other better way than to agree with Liu Zhongzhou's opinion.
Liu Zhongzhou saw that everyone agreed with his opinion, so he set his eyes on Li Xin, this is the only person who has a different opinion from himself today and before, and he wants to know what Li Xin is thinking at this time.
Of course, Li Xin knows what Liu Zhongzhou's vision means, to be honest, if the futures price really rises by another 5,000 yuan, Li Xin's own choice will only be to close the position with a profit immediately. From this point of view, Liu Zhongzhou's strategy for the worst-case scenario just now seems to be correct. So Li Xin could only nod at Liu Zhongzhou's gaze, indicating that he agreed with Liu Zhongzhou's opinion on continuing to hold the position.
After Liu Zhongzhou unified the opinions of everyone in front of him, he leaned forward and said to the mobile phone on the table: "Vice President Xue, everyone here agrees to continue to hold positions, what do you think?"
Xue Chenzhi, who was far away in his office in the smelter, had been listening to the discussion of the meeting with his mobile phone since the meeting began.
He didn't know how long the meeting would last, and it wasn't a good idea to go on like this, so he turned on the speakerphone button on his phone, put it on the table, and smoked a cigarette while pricking up his ears to carefully discern the sound coming from the phone's speaker.
Through the microphone, it is not easy to tell who is speaking on the phone, but fortunately, the noise is not too loud, and it is not too difficult to hear the general meaning of these people.
Gradually, he figured out the situation, and began to worry about the 20,000-ton short position in the quagmire. Prior to this, although the first 10,000 tons sold had a loss of more than 30 million yuan, the volume of short positions was not too large, accounting for only one-third of the production in the second half of the year.
And he also believes that copper prices in the second half of the year cannot always be at such a high position, and these short losses will be wiped out sooner or later. Driven by this prediction and the news of the second sell-off, Xue Chenzhi once again agreed to Liu Zhongzhou's proposal to increase his position to 20,000 tons.
But as soon as all the positions were established, I waited for the news of the price skyrocketing. After knowing the news of the skyrocketing copper price, he was overwhelmed by the sharply increasing losses in the futures market before he had time to carefully taste the euphoria that instinctively generated by being a factory director.
Listening to the more than 47 million losses discussed at the venue, Xue Chenzhi secretly scolded in his heart: NMD, if there were no such losses, there would have been at least more than 30 million more profits in the LZ smelter by now!
Although he also agreed with Liu Zhongzhou's opinion at that time, but at this time, he still complained to Liu Zhongzhou greatly, although he didn't dare to say it explicitly, but in his heart he kept scolding: If it weren't for your bad idea, how could you worry about these things now? Hurry up and make more money, and it's over.
He even secretly rejoiced in his heart: when Liu Zhongzhou wanted the smelter to invest 30 million, he agreed with him that the 30 million was the smelter's return to the group's funds, the investment in futures was the group's, and the profits and losses were borne by the headquarters. Otherwise, the loss of more than 23 million yuan in the futures account of the smelter now will have to be borne by himself.
This is not a good sign, if the price of copper falls in the future, this loss will be wiped out, but what if the price of copper does not fall?
Hearing Liu Zhongzhou's analysis at the meeting, in the worst-case scenario, he might lose another 100 million, and Xue Chenzhi was even more at a loss. The loss in the futures account of the smelter in front of him has already scared him a lot, if the entire group loses another 100 million, won't he have to bear another 50 million?
No, no, it's his business how Liu Zhongzhou likes to toss, he can't manage it, and he doesn't dare to manage it, anyway, he recognized one, if he really has a loss of more than 73 million yuan on his side in the future, this account can't fall on the head of the smelter.
So when Xue Chenzhi heard Liu Zhongzhou ask him his opinion on the phone, he immediately returned to his senses and said, "I agree with the majority of people's opinions. ”
Xue Chenzhi said this sentence at this time, and he faintly felt that the dilemma in front of him might not be solved as smoothly as Liu Zhongzhou expected. In this kind of uncertain future, not to mention that Xue Chenzhi has no accurate idea, even if he has his own opinion, he doesn't dare to say it.
At this critical moment, he, the vice chairman, and Liu Zhongzhou, the chairman of the board, have one place that is very similar in a sense, that is: Liu Zhongzhou convened this meeting to persuade everyone to stand with him. As for Xue Chenzhi, agreeing with the majority of people's opinions is to stand with everyone.
Just when Li Xin was attending the meeting, the mobile phone he put on his desk kept ringing, and there was a person who had been looking for him, and his urgency was no less than when Liu Zhongzhou was looking for Huang Hongliang this morning, this person was Yuan Jie.
When the market was about to open this morning, Yuan Jie rushed to the company. As soon as she entered the office, her staff told her about the sale this morning. After she heard this, her first feeling was: Li Xin is going to suffer today! He didn't listen to him early on to make a profit, and now it's no wonder that the price of copper will not fall after such news comes out.
She knows very well in her heart that whether it is bullish or bearish, the effect of this kind of news has a gradual accumulation process. Don't look at the first two times after the news came out, it fell first and then rose, but again and again, maybe this third news is the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Besides, the straw added at the end is not light, there are 20,000 tons!
The camel was also a little different from what it used to be, and now it was unusually tall. If such a tall camel were crushed, it would be enough to choke on the ground.
I don't know if Li Xin already knows the news?
Thinking of this, she planned to make a phone call to inform Li Xin, but as soon as this idea came to her, she was immediately interrupted by the subordinates who came in to find her to do something, and the delay was six or seven minutes.
Just when Yuan Jie was discussing things with his subordinates, suddenly, there was a discussion in the corridor. On weekdays, the company's internal environment is very quiet, whether customers or employees, they are quietly watching the market, and there will not be much movement, so the noise coming from now is very abrupt.