September 22nd.

Because it was the early stage of the business, the number of people was small, and in order to facilitate communication, the two companies Star Computer and Polaris Software temporarily worked in the same place.

After dinner in the afternoon, Wu Ming inspected the development progress of Star Computer, and then continued to develop the Polaris 1.0 system with Charles Simeone and a group of software developers.

"BOSS, it's up, it's up!"

As soon as he received the news of the outbreak of war, Julian Robertson came to Silicon Valley to report to Wu Ming.

"What's the fight?!" Wu Minggang asked suspiciously, then reacted, and exclaimed: "Wait, Julian, you mean that Iran and Iraq are fighting!?"

Robertson looked at Wu Ming with an excited face and said with a smile: "Yes, the Iran-Iraq war broke out. ”

After receiving an accurate answer, Wu Ming immediately put down the work he was doing, explained to Simeone, and left the company with Robertson.

The rest of the staff in the office were also stunned by the news, and they stopped their work to talk about the big event.

"It's gone up, and the price of oil has gone up again. ”

As soon as Wu Ming and Robertson came to Star Investment, some employees trotted up excitedly and said.

"Great!" Wu Ming clenched his fists and muttered to himself.

Robertson also looked happy, and said excitedly: "BOSS, we're going to send it again, hahaha!"

Coming back to his senses, Wu Ming restrained his smile and said seriously: "Julian, in the future, you will come to me every day to report the price of oil, and you can't delay a day." This is a critical moment for us to get out of the market before oil prices fall. Otherwise, we will spit out what we earn. ”

Wu Ming knew that not long after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, oil prices rose for a period of time before turning around and falling. He didn't know the exact time, only the number of the highest oil prices. After all, there was no specific time written on the website in the previous life, only that it would soar to the highest price at the end of this year.

Although he left the field a little later, he still had some money. But only by leaving the market before that can you keep all your profits.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed.

As Wu Ming remembers, after the outbreak of the war, the already stable oil price began to soar again.

Oil prices vary from day to day.

At the moment, the price of crude oil has risen to $38.12.

Now that Star Investment has made a profit of more than $1.8 billion, Robertson and others are going crazy with excitement.

More than half a month passed.

Yesterday, the price of oil had risen to $39.86, so today Wu Ming did not go to Silicon Valley, but stayed on Wall Street Star Investment.

"It's gone up, it's gone up again, it's up to $40. ”

Everyone in Star Investment exclaimed.

"Whew, it's time to get out of the way. ”

Wu Ming secretly said in his heart, maybe there is a little room for oil prices to rise, but it can't attract him anymore.

In particular, he remembered that this time the price of oil rose to a maximum of $42 and could fall at any time. It's not worth taking such a big risk for a small one.

"Julian, now start slowly selling and closing positions. Wu Ming said in a deep voice.

Julian Robertson asked, confused, "Won't you wait any longer?"

Wu Ming said firmly: "No need, you won't make much money if you wait any longer, but it will add a lot of danger." ”

Robertson nodded and replied, "Understood, I'll start operating now." ”

"Selling and closing a position for $40 cheered me up and operated carefully. Horst exclaimed excitedly.

"$40.21, sell a thousand contracts. ”

"$40.12, sell 1,500 contracts. ”

"$40.18, sell two thousand contracts. ”

"$40.35, sell 1,800 contracts. ”

……

Robertson calmly commanded the crowd and began to carefully sell and close the position. Try to make each transaction as different in size as possible to avoid the attention of others.

It took two days for Star Investment to close its position and leave the market, removing various expenses, and making a total profit of $267 million.

In addition to the 10 million earned by Robertson, Charles Simeone, and Mark Hurd following him, Wu Ming's profit plus principal is still 2.8 billion US dollars.

After making so much money, the next thing is naturally to line up and share the fruits. After all, I have earned so much this time, if I don't give a bonus, people will be disheartened in the future, and the team will not be easy to bring.

Wu Ming's face was full of bright smiles.

"Hehe, everyone is mentally and physically exhausted during this time, and all employees have two days off. In addition, a total of 15 million prizes will be given out this time. Julian, you take five million dollars, and distribute the rest according to the performance of the people. ”

Now Star Investment, excluding Robertson, there are only about 30 people, and each person can get more than 300,000 US dollars when divided equally, which is not less.

"Got it, boss. Julian exclaimed.

This time he can make a lot of money, Mark Hurd and Charles Simeone are still young, but they don't have much savings, and he alone has 7 million in profits of 10 million. Including the prize money, he made a total profit of $12 million this time.

Wu Ming tapped his fingers on the table, pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "I will leave a billion dollars to invest in gold futures for you to operate, you must seize the opportunity." ”

Robertson nodded and said firmly: "BOSS, don't worry, I will definitely make Star Investment the brightest star on Wall Street." ”

Hearing this, Wu Ming smiled and said, "That's not necessary, we just need to make a fortune in a muffled voice, and we don't have to make it known to everyone." ”

Robertson nodded, signaling that he understood.

Also as a non-renewable resource, there is a positive correlation between gold and oil, which means that the price of gold and oil usually move in a positive direction. An increase in the price of oil indicates that the price of gold will also rise, and a fall in the price of oil indicates a decrease in the price of gold.

The price of oil has risen sharply since 1978, and the price of gold is no exception. It's just that when Wu Ming wanted to enter the market, the price of gold had soared to a maximum of $850 per ounce. After that, it was suppressed by US President Jimmy Carter and began to fall.

In order to be safe, Wu Ming had to give up shorting gold and choose to go long oil.

Now because of the Iran-Iraq war, gold brokers fear that the war could disrupt oil supplies, and the price of gold has started to rise again and has now reached $700 an ounce.

But when they find out that the oil supply has not been interrupted by the war at all, the price of gold will definitely fall again. It will not return to its original price, but it will at least fall below $350.

In his previous life, Wu Ming was obsessed with financial online novels for a while, so he once looked up relevant information on the website.

Changing to before, Wu Ming would forget about it after a while. In this life, thanks to the welfare of rebirth, with the ability to never forget, you can extract that memory from your mind at any time. Otherwise, Wu Ming would not dare to crash headlong into the extremely high-risk futures market.

Wu Ming has seen the international crude oil price chart and the gold price chart. The above shows that although the overall trend of oil prices is to continue to fall, the local trend is up and down. The price of gold has also continued to fall, but the fluctuations are relatively small.

After comparing, Wu Ming naturally chose gold futures with a simpler operation.