Chapter 250: Big Things and Little Things
Ma Tianming is not qualified to attend a high-level management meeting like yesterday afternoon, and if he asks like this now, Li Xin estimates that it may be that Huang Hongliang has not told Ma Tianming that Liu Zhongzhou is going to withdraw funds from the sales company, and if Ma Tianming knew about this, he probably wouldn't have asked like this. Because after Liu Zhongzhou withdraws the funds back, the sales company's funds will be very tight.
Seeing that Li Xin was busy closing the position in front of the computer and had no time to chat with himself, Ma Tianming also felt very bored standing next to him, he chatted with Li Xin for a few more words, and then quit Li Xin's office.
It took Li Xin more than 40 minutes to finally close all the positions on this contract in August, he carefully looked at the funds on the account, and then walked to the door of Liu Zhongzhou's office and knocked on the door.
I heard Liu Zhongzhou say inside, "Please come in." Li Xin pushed open the door and walked in, and said to Liu Zhongzhou: "Chairman, all the positions in August have been closed." ”
Liu Zhongzhou asked, "What about the current financial situation?"
Li Xin said: "The available funds are more than 38 million. ”
Liu Zhongzhou asked in surprise: "So much?"
Li Xin said: "Yes, the August contract is about to be delivered, so the margin ratio of this contract is quite high, and now after all the positions on this part of the contract are closed, the funds occupied have dropped significantly, and the available funds will naturally be more." ”
Liu Zhongzhou said: "Oh, that's it. ”
Li Xin saw that Liu Zhongzhou didn't ask anything anymore, so he said, "Chairman, then I'll go over first." ”
Liu Zhongzhou said: "Go ahead." ”
So Li Xin turned around and left Liu Zhongzhou's office.
Li Xin took the initiative to come in to report on his work today, which made Liu Zhongzhou want to sit down with Li Xin and talk carefully, but before he could make up his mind, Li Xin said goodbye again.
Looking at Li Xin, who turned to leave, Liu Zhongzhou thought: This person is really different, compared with Huang Hongliang and others, Li Xin really won't be in trouble!
If Huang Hongliang or Jiang Hua entered their office, they would not rub their skin and scratch their itches, and try their best to stay here for a while, accompanying their smiling faces to please themselves in front of them, and sometimes they can't leave.
But he Li Xin is good, he always looks very high, and he doesn't have a word of superfluity with himself, the chairman. If he had been clever in this area, he might have a lot to talk to him about.
Liu Zhongzhou, who was not without regrets, thought about it: Alas, there is really nothing to talk about now, and at the meeting yesterday, his own opinions and Li Xin's opinions have been clearly stated.
In fact, Liu Zhongzhou himself didn't realize that he was making excuses for himself by doing this. He couldn't make up his mind to talk to Li Xin at this time, the main reason was that he had no psychological advantage, and the huge loss made him not know how to face Li Xin.
After being the CEO of the group for so many years, as the strongest leader of the group, Liu Zhongzhou has never flinched or been timid in the face of various challenges, even Xue Chenzhi, the most powerful competitor within the group, has not let Liu Zhongzhou have this unspeakable fear of difficulties.
But only in front of Li Xin, a young man, he now has a lack of confidence in the psychology of trouble, should he talk to Li Xin alone, or talk to him when other personnel are present?
Facing Li Xin alone, although the content of the conversation will not be leaked to others, which is good for his image, it makes Liu Zhongzhou feel a little unnatural. There are factors here that Liu Zhongzhou still feels that he can't put down the shelf, and there is also a certain embarrassment that he has to bow his head and admit it.
But if you deliberately find someone to talk at the scene, so that the conversation is not specifically aimed at him Li Xin, although the scene unconsciously dilutes the importance of Li Xin, and will not let himself lose face too much, but in the process of communication, it is inevitable that there will be embarrassing scenes. Wouldn't it be even more embarrassing if this was spread out again?
Because Li Xin is now a person who cannot be underestimated in Liu Zhongzhou's opinion, his way of acting is still a little like a stunned young man, and when he has different opinions, he will not hide or detour, but will only express it undisguisedly.
Just like in the past several group management meetings, because of Li Xin's opposition to hedging, Liu Zhongzhou severely refuted Li Xin according to the authority of the chairman, and there was even no lack of cynicism.
At that time, Liu Zhongzhou's words were sharp, and he suppressed Li Xin so much that he couldn't raise his head, demonstrating his irrefutable authority as the leader of the group.
What I didn't expect was that time had passed, and just a few months later, the trend of copper prices did not give Liu Zhongzhou face, but continued to rise in the direction that Li Xin said.
Now it makes Liu Zhongzhou very embarrassed, although everyone doesn't say it, but Liu Zhongzhou is self-aware and knows that he is very embarrassed in this matter so far. If this happened a few more times, I am afraid it would not be as simple as embarrassment.
Liu Zhongzhou patted his head, he suddenly felt a little funny, how could a little Li Xin actually make himself uneasy?
He lit a cigar, took two puffs, got up and paced to the window, looked at the overcast sky outside the window, and blew a long puff of smoke out of the window, as if to exhale the unpleasant emotions just now with the smoke. He thought to himself, these small things will have time to deal with in the future, and now focus on the big things first.
The big thing that Liu Zhongzhou is thinking about now is the good news that Li Xin has suddenly increased the available funds brought to him by more than 38 million yuan when he came in just now, and this news made Liu Zhongzhou secretly happy in his heart just now, he did not expect that after all the contracts in August were closed, the improvement in capital would be so great.
In the case that the funds on Huang Hongliang and Xue Chenzhi's side have not been transferred to the futures account, just by closing the positions on the August contract, the available funds have increased so much, if the funds on Xue Chengzhi and Huang Hongliang's side are also in place, the available funds on the futures account are quite objective!
This made Liu Zhongzhou, who had been holding his breath and wanted to turn over the battle, suddenly doubled his courage, he was like a general who had been holding on to the city for several months, in the case of food, grass, soldiers were in a hurry, and the city was in danger, he suddenly saw that reinforcements were in front of him, so he immediately cheered up and started the idea of counterattacking, he wanted to make up for all the positions he had lost at the right time.
He said this meaning at the meeting yesterday, and I don't know if the other people attending the meeting heard it, anyway, Li Xin heard it clearly.
Liu Zhongzhou's plan is to get up wherever he falls, and there is no other way to make up for the current loss of more than 160 million yuan in the futures account, but to make it back in the futures market.
Although the continuous rise in futures prices has been tormenting Liu Zhongzhou, who is difficult to ride a tiger, at the same time, in the eyes of Liu Zhongzhou, who is firmly bearish, the rise in prices also means that the potential energy of the decline is constantly accumulating.
Copper prices have now seriously deviated from the normal range, and once they reverse and fall in the future, it will be a good opportunity to turn around. This is the fundamental reason why he dared to transfer some of the funds of the smelter and the sales company back into the futures account.
In addition, with the August contract having to be closed today, Liu Zhongzhou is also aware of another problem: a fifth of the position has been lost, and in case the September position has to be closed according to sales, and the copper price has not fallen for a long time, then there will be even fewer remaining positions.
It is even more difficult to make up for the loss of 160 million with the remaining three-fifths of the position.
Of course, Liu Zhongzhou did not want such a situation to occur, but now he had to start to face the reality, that is, according to the hedging plan, the September contract would have to be closed in one month.
In the coming month, the price will not necessarily fall to the position that Liu Zhongzhou hopes. So he had to start making such preparations, to make up for his position in a farther contract, otherwise, it would be wishful thinking to earn back 160 million with only the remaining three months of contracts.
Fortunately, new funds have been secured at the moment, and the first question is when to open new positions. On this issue, Liu Zhongzhou didn't dare to be careless, what he wanted was the most accurate blow. And at this point, as far as Liu Zhongzhou could see, except for Li Xin, no one could provide him with valuable information.
Liu Zhongzhou stood in front of the window and thought for a long time, but in the end, he found that no matter whether it was a big problem or a small problem, he couldn't get around Li Xin, a young man. He stomped his feet, which were standing a little sore, returned to the writing desk and sat down, picked up the phone and called Zheng Guorui: "You call the smelter and the sales company to ask them to transfer the funds as soon as possible, and notify me as soon as the funds are in place." ”
Zheng Guorui said: "Okay, chairman. ”
Zheng Guorui had been busy with other things just now, and after receiving Liu Zhongzhou's call, he remembered that Li Xin was going to close the August contract as planned today. Usually he went to check the settlement of the day after the market closed in the afternoon, but today he couldn't wait, and immediately opened the trading system to check the results of Li Xin's liquidation.
Zheng Guorui is most concerned about the change in the number in the available funds column, seeing that the number in it is more than 38 million yuan more than yesterday, Zheng Guorui is very happy in his heart.
Although he knew that this did not mean that the original losses had decreased, it was just the result of reducing his positions, but for so long, he had been watching this number decrease in frustration every day, and today the number suddenly increased still made him, the finance minister, feel a little relieved.
He is now more and more on Li Xin's side, and he is not optimistic about the prospect of holding short orders for a long time, and he always feels that it is a good thing to be able to gradually lower his position.