Verse 153 Interlude: Thomas's Learning 2
Director Gao's speculative methods, or rather, gambling methods, are completely different from what Thomas has learned (which is normal, as a member of the family of a third-rate rich, Thomas has at least heard a lot of them).
First of all, he never operated large funds. Each sum of money will not exceed 100,000.
Everyone knows that any futures market may be very sensitive to the entry of big sharks, but the 100,000 level can only be regarded as small fish at most, not even small fish, only the grade of shrimp and small worms. No pond cares about the entry and exit of a small fish. But although the small fish does not cause hostility, it has a natural defect, the small fish cannot lift the waves.
To put it bluntly, the more money you have, the more you win, the bigger it is. Even if it is a stupid operation, sometimes you can eat each other with funds. Therefore, the big fish is relying on their own size to make waves and run rampant everywhere. At the same time, because of the large amount of funds, they often have the advantage of information and can be laid out one step ahead.
On the contrary, the small fish have to be conscientious and careful in order to eat some leftover scraps from the mouths of the big fish. And because of the lack of money, there is no spare energy to collect relevant information, resulting in a lag in information. So they often fall into those well-designed traps. In other words, although I think I am sharing the leftovers, in fact, if I am not careful, I will fall into the mouth of the big fish.
Although the purpose is to cut leeks, it is often only after the fact that they realize that they are actually the leeks that are being harvested.
As a result, the natural strategic choice for futures speculation is to concentrate financial resources, become a big fish, and take advantage of the situation after setting off waves in a certain field.
But that's not what Director Gao did at all. Obviously, he has sufficient funds in his hands, even if he can't be a crocodile or shark, at least he can be regarded as a medium-sized fish, but he insists on breaking his funds into small pieces and turning to various different futures varieties in units of 100,000. He participates in every futures variety. At the same time, he has never engaged in capital leverage.
If it is an irrelevant outsider, just from the observation of his book capital flow, Director Gao is a very ordinary businessman who hopes to use futures to hedge risks.
Usually, you earn about five to ten percent and then retreat. Wait a little longer before you enter the market again. Of course, it is still a small fish with a capital of only 100,000 yuan. In the whole huge capital plate, it is really as inconspicuous as a small fish and shrimp.
So on the surface, it seems completely incredible that he is making money. It is simply unheard of to spread out your energy and financial resources and make money at the same time.
If there is one reason why he can make money, then there is only one ...... He is very well informed.
It's not the usual kind of well-informed, but almost predicts the future.
Of course, Thomas knew that this was normal. Because Director Gao is not an ordinary person, but a person with supernatural abilities.
A long-lasting, incredible, supernatural group of supernatural abilities with countless secrets and knowledge. And if Thomas is not mistaken, Director Gao is likely to be the leader among them. Of course, it's too early to make this judgment. But it doesn't affect him from making this impression.
"So according to this news, it is likely that the price of wheat will plummet...... Corn is unaffected and should maintain its original growth momentum......"
In the next part, Mr. Gao was demonstrating the actual combat process, while Thomas was highly concentrated, staring at his three screens.
On the news website on the right, there is a small news item about an outbreak of wheat rust in a South American country. If the news is straightforward, there is no doubt that wheat prices should rise because of reduced crop yields due to pests and diseases.
But Director Gao's judgment is obviously different from that of outsiders - according to his judgment, there will be big money to use this news to hype. As a result, the price of wheat will be contrary to the normal logic, that is, not only will it not increase, but there will be a sharp drop in the short term. As for why Director Gao made such a judgment that was completely different from others, it was obviously based on experience, or on some reliable piece of information, or simply on supernatural abilities.
So although theoretically, futures investment is really a very simple thing, the easiest gambling in the world, that is to say, there are only two choices: buy up or buy down. But in fact, the doorways are really complicated enough to be dazzling and overwhelming.
And on the left screen, there are quotes for wheat futures.
Director Gao's analysis was absolutely correct. Or rather, in fact, his analysis was an afterthought. Because Director Gao first made money, and then instructed Thomas what happened. His $100,000 investment has now yielded nearly 10 percent of the benefits.
But if futures are used as a gamble, the real excitement of it is not the slow-swallowing type of the high factory manager. It's financial leverage.
If you have $10,000, you have $100,000 with 10x financial leverage. If it's 20 times leverage, it will directly become 200,000 dollars.
In other words, if you buy the right one, then the money you make is ten times the money. Of course, the reverse is the opposite, and losing money seems to be the same. As long as it falls by 10 percent, it will be forced to close the position, and immediately become a poor egg with nothing.
Director Gao made a profit of 9 percent and successfully retreated from wheat futures. This lesson is over. He explained to Thomas in detail the whole process of his judgment. For him, it should be just a demonstration of real combat.
By the way, Director Gao used the company's account to make a presentation. While $100,000 is a considerable amount for an individual, it is a small amount of money for the company (so Thomas highly suspects that the demonstration and the day-to-day operation of the factory manager are two different things, and the latter obviously involves much larger funds than the former).
"Thomas, do you understand this kind of learning?" asked Director Gao directly across the Internet.
"Understood. Thomas thought hard.
As I said earlier, don't look at all futures operations with only two, buying up or buying down, just like gambling dice to buy big and buy small, but the mystery is endless. Short and long fighting, one short to long, one long to short, all of which are improvised.
Thomas has begun to realize that the reason why Director Gao chose this method of speculation is that he has very accurate sources. Or maybe he has a very sharp sense of judgment. Although he is a small fish, he has the courage to swim freely among sharks, crocodiles, and even whales because he has accurate information and can make correct judgments. The so-called leaves in the ten thousand flowers do not stick to the body. Not only can you ensure your own safety, but you can also bite the leftover minced meat eaten by the big sharks.
For example, if we speculate on the wheat rust incident just introduced by the logic of a normal human like Thomas, it is natural that the futures price will rise, but the director of the factory will judge that it will fall.
Of course, the reason for the high factory director is very sufficient, because he judged that there would be a large amount of money that would carry out the reverse operation and harvest a wave of leeks. But why does Director Gao know that there is a lot of money to carry out this kind of operation, this, Director Gao's answer is based on experience.
Moreover, Director Gao seemed to think that this was a very easy thing, and he did not tell it in detail at all.
But Thomas didn't have the skills.
Ten more times of the same operation, he felt that he would still choose to side with the bulls, and then be reaped.
If the purpose is learning itself, then after such a round of words and deeds by Director Gao, Thomas has become more confused than smart.
It's like a schoolboy studying with a university professor, and if you, a person who can't even do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, learn advanced mathematics from someone else, the consequences are obvious: you can't understand it at all, just like listening to a book from heaven.
But Thomas is not stupid. In other words, he noticed one thing from the beginning - Director Gao was very conservative.
Maybe it's out of the need to conceal his own existence, so Director Gao is always very low-key and never uses capital leverage; Maybe it's because it's easy for superpowers to make money, so they don't want to make extra money; in short, Director Gao is a very conservative person. Obviously, you can easily earn ten times more with a leverage, but Director Gao just doesn't want to make this money.
But Thomas doesn't have that limitation. In this day and age, as a futures speculator, making money from speculation is not a bad thing. As long as you make money, people will only appreciate you. After all, this kind of thing is not only reasonable, but also legal.
So after Thomas realized the ability of the high factory manager in this regard, he immediately made his own decision. That is, in the name of learning, directly follow Director Gao to make money.
Although it was in the name of "learning", whether or not he understood Director Gao's strategy, at least he made money by following the trend.
For Thomas, it couldn't be easier to open your own private account in the futures market.
He invested all his personal possessions and then did not hesitate to choose the highest leverage.
If the high factory director buys up, he will buy up, and if the high factory director buys down, he will buy down. If the director of the high factory takes profits, he will take profits. Although it is ostensibly learning, it is actually trading. Of course, he does not have the self-restriction of the high factory manager, and the total amount of Thomas's funds will not be limited to a mere 100,000 yuan, and he has chosen the largest leverage.
Director Gao may be worried that others will check on the door and expose his identity and supernatural abilities, but Thomas doesn't need to worry about this.
So this week, Thomas closed the door, turned off the mobile phone, hung up the phone, didn't care about everything, and followed Director Gao wholeheartedly to learn. At the same time, it is also cheating on money.
Now that the study is coming to an end, it is possible to understand how easy it is for these supernatural beings to live in modern society. If nothing else, playing with futures, you can easily make astronomical money.
In the chat video, Director Gao has announced the end of the preliminary teaching. He said that now Thomas should start to learn the real operation, the so-called self-learning to apply, the theoretical giant is not equal to the practical giant, try it.
Of course, Thomas agreed, and looked back at the results of the trading on his account - to put it mildly, although Thomas knew that this kind of financial trading was very profitable for a long time, when everything was over and he looked at the results on his account, even he had that incredible feeling. And, of course, there's an indescribable sense of pride.
It's not clear whether it's because of the pride in making so much money, or for being able to put someone like Director Gao
In short, there is no need to worry about the funding of the scientific research center for the time being.
Only then did he turn on the phone he had been turning off. In a week, there were a lot of calls.
"Lu Wu...... Master?"