Chapter 451: A Trip to North America

"Sister Annie, these are today's newspapers, financial departments and news sections, basically there is not much negative news about the company's stocks in our hands, and in the news part, the White House Xiaobu proposed that Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction is unacceptable, and the measures taken against Iraq are becoming more and more stringent. ”

Affected by the news, crude oil rose further, and Mr. Cai hoped to take the opportunity to make a position adjustment when he rushed up, understand a part of the profits, and adjust the position to less than 7%. Avoid adjusting the market after the good news comes out. ”

After finishing the various meetings during the day, Liu Ruoyi returned to the hotel, declined the dinner of Caitlin and the others, and began to do her own thing.

After listening to Vivien's briefing, I began to browse the news of the day's major newspapers and magazines on my own.

After all, there are many things, and just listening to Vivian's brief summary after sorting it out, it is inevitable that some important information will be missed.

This has developed Liu Ruoyi's daily habits, although it seems to be hard, but Liu Ruoyi has learned to make fun out of suffering.

The memories of rebirth are becoming more and more blurred, and many major events have been recorded in advance and saved in their encrypted computer files, which can be used as some important reference benchmarks for future research and judgment.

However, some memories that are not clear often need a variety of information to induce associations.

So in this regard, Liu Ruoyi can't fake her hands on others, so she can only work harder by herself.

Liu Ruoyi reads the newspaper very quickly, her English is very good, and she will not miss any important information when she browses ten lines at a glance.

The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today...

Sure enough, there is not much new news worthy of attention today, but on the Gulf incident, which Liu Ruoyi is particularly concerned about, today the White House once again released a verbal cannon and issued another war warning to Iraq.

It's just that this is not the first time that this kind of claim has not even taken up the front page, which makes people suspect that the White House is just paying lip service, and most people have no reaction to it.

However, oil prices were affected by this news, and after rising for a few days, today's gap rose by more than 1 point, constantly hitting new highs in the past year, and the market was hot.

Although these short-term things are not predictable by Liu Ruoyi, relatively speaking, it is still less than a new high of $30, far from reaching Liu Ruoyi's psychological price.

And these news stimuli have not reached the energy to make oil prices soar to high points, and what really completes the end of this wave of oil price surges should be that the White House has finally made up its mind to let the aircraft carrier group cruising in the Gulf send out the first Tomahawk missile!

The increasing amount of U.S. strategic oil reserves, in Liu Ruoyi's view, is an important driver of this wave of market.

Among the top players in the international futures market, the vast majority do not rely on foresight like Liu Ruoyi, but rely on the real market supply and demand trend.

The increase in the total amount of U.S. strategic petroleum reserves is not top-secret information, in the eyes of the top oil futures players on Wall Street and in Europe, this is the real thing, and following this is the right way.

As for whether war really comes, when it will come is secondary.

Maybe there will really be a war, but at that time, the oil futures market will be "exhausted", and the end of the good will be a new round of decline after the rise.

Liu Ruoyi studied this in Columbia University, although this information is too long for her to remember, but with the knowledge she has learned, she already knows very well that this routine is the most correct routine to play this wave of oil futures.

The day of the real war is when she cashes in and leaves, even if she wants to continue to do it, she will consider turning over and walking a wave, and then see that the situation stabilizes before making a plan, and re-judge how to fight while walking in the case of long-term bullishness.

It is precisely because there are so many factors in the middle that although Liu Ruoyi has found a few assistants who are currently quite effective, she still maintains her personal and in-depth involvement.

Zhao Shaodong and Li Ershao are not wrong at all, doing futures trading is like dancing on a tightrope of death, and the slightest mistake at a critical moment will lead to a full loss.

"WorldCom's share price took a heavy dip today. If S&P and Moody's downgrade the company's debt rating by two levels, WorldCom could be forced to pay $2 billion in receivables financing. ”

A short piece of news from the Wall Street Journal suddenly caught Liu's eye, and she read through the news carefully, as if some dusty memories had been awakened in her mind.

"Vivian, I will search and sort out all the information and financial reports of this company this year on the Internet, and I want to take a closer look at this company. ”

After reading the news, Liu Ruoyi closed her eyes, and some classic cases she learned back then slowly came to mind.

If she remembers correctly, the worldCom company still has some memories for her because it is one of the most famous classic cases of "financial fraud" in American business history.

It's just that after a long time, Liu Ruoyi has forgotten when this company did this, and now that she remembers, if Liu Ruoyi doesn't know what to do, then she is really stupid.

For the vast majority of U.S. stock investors, it is of course a disaster to encounter such a thing, but for Liu Ruoyi, this is a new opportunity.

Vivian moves very fast, and at this time, the network of the United States is still the world's top speed, and the network information is already quite rich. After Liu Ruoyi finished reading the newspapers and periodicals in her hand, she browsed the information compiled by Vivian.

"Luckily, the time was just in time. After reading the information, Liu Ruoyi was overjoyed and pleasantly surprised by this sudden opportunity.

Looking at all aspects of the situation, Worldcom is already at the end of the road, and the stock price has plummeted, from a high price of dozens of dollars to more than $2 now.

Therefore, after the unsatisfactory performance of the latest quarterly report led to a sharp drop in the stock price, the trading volume was very large, showing that the power to take orders at the bottom was very strong.

Judging from the classic stock trading experience, there may be a rebound after the sharp fall, and aggressive investors still trust Worldcom, a world-class communications company.

However, the case information that Liu Ruoyi learned in her memory shows that this is not the worst time, and what awaits the company is not a bottoming out, but an even worse "financial fraud" scandal that will expose the world-class company into the bottomless abyss of death.

The final outcome that awaits this behemoth company is bankruptcy!

Although Liu Ruoyi's memory is not very clear at the time node, judging from the current comprehensive situation and the case information in his memory, this matter is also a case in 02 and 03, after all, Liu Ruoyi studied this case in his previous life and learned this case about 08 years. So this is something that is likely to happen in the next year.

It is now mid-June 2002, and although there is no definite memory of the outbreak of the scandal, it is much more vague than the 911 incident, but this doomed ending does not affect Liu Ruoyi's operation in this matter.

"Vivian, remember to empty the U.S. stocks tomorrow, and all the funds will be used to short the shares of Worldcom, whether it is to borrow shares directly from the brokerage to sell, or to sell the company's various options, whether it is a three-month term or a one-year term, you can short as much as you can, until the maximum leverage reaches 25 times. ”

After Liu Ruoyi made up her mind, she put this decision into practice, her U.S. stock account was originally a long-term investment in Apple and Amazon, and tens of millions of dollars were withdrawn due to the opening of the U.S. market, and now the market value should be more than 200 million less than 300 million U.S. dollars.

But as a trader, Liu Ruoyi's amount of funds is already a very large and important customer, and the leverage of securities lending and selling, the brokerage can give up to 50 times!

However, for those who provide securities lending and borrowing with leverage, they will carry out risk control management on their short positions, and will set up measures such as early warning ratio and liquidation ratio to prevent uncontrollable risks caused by excessive leverage ratio of securities borrowing and lending.

Before the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. stocks, aggressive brokerages dared to give you 100 times leverage, not to mention 50 times leverage!

However, Liu Ruoyi obviously won't play so heartbeat, 100 times leverage, if you don't have a large amount of money as a backing, you can replenish the margin at any time, and a percentage point of fluctuation will blow up!

Now Liu Ruoyi will not know the specific outbreak time of the scandal at all, and according to normal operation, he will definitely not play such a large leverage ratio of his funds.

Liu Ruoyi's U.S. stock account does not have a full-time trader, this is Liu Ruoyi's account as a long-term trend investment, and there are not many operations in themselves.

Although Vivian felt very incomprehensible about Liu Ruoyi's decision.

However, for her, it is still very clear when to speak and when not to speak, and she nodded silently after listening.

This kind of big thing, Liu Ruoyi will never change it after careful consideration, and Vivian also knows that Liu Ruoyi must have a strong reason for making these decisions.

According to the maximum leverage of 25 times, with the current amount of funds in Liu Ruoyi's account, the total amount of this wave of operations will exceed 6 billion US dollars!

If you look in the wrong direction, you only need 4 or 5 points of fluctuation, and the funds that Liu Ruoyi has worked so hard to accumulate will turn into water.

This kind of gambling is in response to Liu Ruoyi's consistent style, seeing the direction of the wind and acting extremely ruthlessly!

If it were other stocks, Liu Ruoyi would definitely not dare to operate like this, but for the current stormy Worldcom, whether it is from the direction of public opinion, stock trends, or future prospects.

Combining all the factors, combined with the results of the case in Liu Ruoyi's memory, the current worldcom is difficult to return, and it has gone too far on the road of financial fraud, and it is difficult to even make decent fake good news.

After all, the financial system of the US imperialist enterprise is not completely vegetarian, according to the case in Liu Ruoyi's memory, this financial fraud scandal was discovered by the company's internal audit department at the beginning.

So for Worldcom, the future will only get worse and worse, not whether it is extremely Tailai and bottoming out!

Liu Ruoyi made up her mind to gamble, and after handing over this matter to Vivian, she still cooperated with Caitlin's plan to run around to make notices, for these new fans in North America, Liu Ruoyi's singing voice has an extremely strong Eastern cultural atmosphere, but there are also some original things in Western music.

This mixed element, although it is not the mainstream music here, but with Liu Ruoyi's unparalleled vocal talent, it still has a lot of supporters in North America, not to mention Chinese and Asian, this is Liu Ruoyi's basic plate in North America, and has the foundation of Chinese songs, and it is easier to accept English songs.

The mainstream American people who don't have many preconceived ideas about oriental culture also have a high degree of conversion after hearing Liu Ruoyi's beautiful singing, so when the publicity link continued to strengthen after the popularity in the first month, the sales momentum of Liu Ruoyi's album continued to decrease in the second month!

Liu Ruoyi's first week in the New York Bay Area, the sales volume of the New York Bay Area soared from tens of thousands of copies per week to more than 200,000 copies at once!

Such a ferocious sales situation drove the sales of the entire North American market, allowing Liu Ruoyi to directly ascend to the throne of the weekly champion on the Billboard list!

Liu Ruoyi doesn't know much about the entertainment industry, and she doesn't know which Chinese singers have done this, but after seeing this result, Vivian was a little excited.

"Sister Annie, so far the only Chinese singer who has been able to reach the weekly champion of the Billboard charts is Theresa Deng, and now that the news has spread back to Xiangjiang and the mainland, it will definitely explode!"

As Liu Ruoyi's current housekeeper, Vivian has tied her life to Liu Ruoyi, so she empathizes with Liu Ruoyi's achievement and is excited!

"Yes, then I'm the second place?" Liu Ruoyi didn't have so much excitement, for her, the road of an artist basically fulfilled her wish after winning the glory of Xiangjiang Tiandiva, and in North America, this matter is still just a ticket nature.

Although now it seems that this play ticket is a bit too big.

"Yes now, but I think there is a great opportunity to surpass it in the future!" Vivian said excitedly, after all, she still has a strong thinking in the entertainment industry, although she followed Liu Ruoyi and watched Liu Ruoyi begin to blossom and grow outside the entertainment industry.

From the perspective of money, Liu Ruoyi's achievements in other fields have exploded as far as hundreds of streets as an artist, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the richest person among the artists in the entire Chinese-speaking circle and even in the entire Asian entertainment circle.

But in terms of artist achievements, Liu Ruoyi is far from reaching the peak of an artist, such as the huge achievement of 48 million sales created by Theresa Deng.

Although the weekly champion of the American Billboard is worth blowing for a year, it is the same thing in terms of artistic achievement, and there is still a big gap between the Grammys and the Oscars.

But what Vivian saw was the time of this week's championship, and Liu Ruoyi was only in her early 20s!

Winning such a high glory at this age, compared with all the artists in the Chinese entertainment industry, this must be unprecedented, and it may also be a miracle!