The Middle East and Russia were "terrorist" attacks, but international oil prices rose to $38 within a week.

During this time, the newspapers and the media reported on the surge in oil prices, as well as the slow progress of repairing two facilities that had been "terrorist": "Optimistically, it will take more than half a year." Oil prices will continue to rise steadily. ”

However, some economists frequently leave the country or publish articles in economic newspapers and periodicals, and after analysis, they conclude that "the world economy is currently in an upward stage, and the demand for crude oil is strong. Affected by the (terrorist attack) incident, the international crude oil supply is tight. The price of crude oil is estimated to climb to $80 per barrel. ”

Of course, the price of this prediction varies from scholar to scholar. There are some predictions that crude oil futures will reach a high of more than $100 again after eight years.

However, compared to the analysis of these scholars, Link prefers to believe Neil.

These days, he goes to talk to Neil after work,

Neil analyzed that the world economy as a whole is indeed on the upswing, but in fact, the economic growth of the major crude oil consumers is not optimistic. Moreover, countries are increasing the development of oil shale, and the world's dependence on Middle Eastern crude oil is not as high as imagined.

"If this had happened in the past, the international price of crude oil would have increased by at least five or six dollars in a day. And now the maximum day is only two dollars higher. That means that the world's demand for crude oil is not as great as imagined. ”

He took time out of his office to surf the Internet and read various comments about the economy. The vast majority of these comments talk about crude oil prices.

And most of the authors of the commentary are optimistic about the rise in crude oil prices.

But Neil still insisted that it was best to start closing the position at around $45.

And Neil commented on the comments of the scholars: "They get money from those funds for every word they write." Writing these things is just trying to trick some people into taking orders at the price that the fund deems appropriate. ”

Neil added: "They must have felt that the situation was a bit paradoxical. So just starting to warm up the market, I think they're hoping to push the price up to $70, but I think they're probably going to sell around $60. Twenty dollars is still an attractive space. The oscillation between $60 and $70 will not make investors feel wrong. I used to do that. ”

But Neil insisted that the price of sixty dollars a barrel was already a fairly optimistic estimate.

Link listened to his pessimistic estimate of what might happen and fully accepted his plan to close the position.

Regardless, speculative markets are truly zero-sum. When the money is still in the speculative market, the amount on the book is not your money, that money is actually all the speculators in the market. In the end, who takes the money depends on who sees the situation more accurately. And only a very small number of people can get this money.

At this time, Douglas rushed to Fox. He came directly to the company office with a USB flash drive with a capacity of 500 gigabytes.

Link was trying to plug the USB flash drive into his computer.

But I heard Douglas say, "Boss, I suggest you use a computer without an Internet connection." ”

Link was stunned for a moment, the contents of the plate were all the secrets of the competitors. He looks at these things on a computer with an internet connection, and who knows if the computer has been hacked.

Link took out a laptop and turned off the Wi-Fi before plugging in the USB stick.

Douglas lowered his voice and said, "This information is all their internal secrets. The hackers I asked also managed to hack into several high-level computers through servers at their corporate headquarters. The stuff inside is very interesting. ”

Link opens the folder. He took a look and found that there were ten folders in it, such as "Experimental Data Recording and Analysis", "Public Relations Cost Statistics", "Financial Investment", "Market Planning", etc.

As he opened one of the folders, he asked, "Have you seen the contents?"

"I've seen some, but it's too hard. Just looked at a few files at random, I looked at thousands of file names and didn't have too many duplicate downloads. ”

Link saw the data in the file. This is a summary of the research data of one of the other side's abandoned projects.

His head was dizzy when he looked at all kinds of data. That's not something he can understand. So he gave up on reading the reports for the time being. Then I opened the folder "Financial Investment" casually.

The latest document found in it shows that Meng Sandu has invested a lot of money in several institutions such as Goldman Sachs to participate in the highly anticipated crude oil futures.

He was very strange in his heart. How could Meng Sandu have three billion spare funds. You know, Mongtoo's dominance in the market has been declining. A few years ago, it also encountered a dilemma, hoping to be acquired by Bayer. In the end, the Senate rejected the merger on the grounds that it threatened U.S. agriculture.

He also found their balance sheet for the quarter of the year. It was found that they simply didn't have that much money.

Nowadays, most companies, in order to curry favor with shareholders, usually pay dividends as profits in advance. Therefore, many companies are actually operating on loans in addition to their nominal assets. And the same is true of the three governors of Meng.

He took a closer look at their balance sheet and found that they had more than three billion receivables. He wondered why so many receivables had not been recovered. But in terms of debt, there is also a new debt of a similar amount.

Such a debt should be borrowed from a bank.

He suspected that the receivables had been falsely accounted for and had been used exclusively for borrowing.

He didn't immediately get to the bottom of it, and looked up at Douglas: "All the traces are cleared?"

"It should be fine on our side. That's professional. I reminded him over there, too. I don't have a problem thinking about it. ”

Link pursed his lips and asked, "The man came back safely?"

"Yes, I've seen it myself, and although the person is frightened, he is in good spirits. There should be no abuse. ”

Link nodded and said, "I'll take a look at these materials first." The follow-up matters should be handled cleanly. ”

"Understood! I'll go first. ”

Link nodded again.

After he left, Link took a closer look at the information. Soon he discovered something that could make Meng Sandu bloody.

The hacker actually copied a record sheet from their company. There are people with names on it, and each person is followed by a number like a date. What's more, the remarks column at the back indicates what the person did for their company?

He typed the names of several random people into a computer search, and the reality showed that they were all parliamentarians, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture or Commerce, and a biology professor.

He knew that big companies like those would have people in the government, but he counted the number of people on the form. There are as many as eighty-six, and the total cost of support for these people is as high as two million per month.

After he got those things, he looked at them for two days that he could understand, and slowly formed a plan in his heart.

Then he flew to California with a USB stick and gave some of the experimental data to Florin to analyze on his own. In particular, no matter what is found, do not make it public.

He then flew to Las Vegas to give the list to Douglas and asked him to follow the list over time.

About two weeks later, when Neil was gradually selling off his crude oil futures, the price of crude oil futures had reached $52 per barrel. In just three weeks, the increase of more than 75%, coupled with the continuous hype of the media about the rise of crude oil futures, has made many investors turn their attention to this most lucrative speculative project at present.

Crude oil prices have accelerated, which is good news for Neal.

And Link also got what he wanted from Florin and then Douglas at this time. Now all that's left is how to spread these things.

If he does it himself, he will definitely offend some of these government departments, and even other departments will think that he does not follow the rules. If they secretly stumble over his business in the future, as a regulated person, he will have bitterness and cannot speak.

He can only be a conspirator in this matter.

And he also selected a suitable person to help him spread the evidence in his hands.

For example, a Liberal Party that acts as a-stirring stick in American politics.

As the third-largest party in the United States and the second-largest opposition party in the ever-time, they are keen to make trouble for the two parties above.

He felt that maybe he could give these things to the Liberals.

However, the politician's festival began to feed the dogs on the day he entered the industry. Nor can he be completely reassured. So, he summoned Douglas again and handed him the things.

He told Douglas, "Find a hacker and divide it up to the radical members of the Liberal Party." In addition, the media cannot be left out. ”

After Douglas took the thing, he asked, "Is there a designated target?"

Link said: "Who is the best fit, I think you will know better than I do. "Douglas has been gathering intelligence and will indeed know certain people better than he does. Even if you don't know it now, you can find out who is the most suitable person to get this information. "Finally, send one to Charlie as well. Don't let him know it's me. ”

Douglas nodded and said, "Understood." ”

Link specially handed over the things to Charlie as well, but he just wanted to give them to him, and he didn't force him to use them.

Now that he and Charlie are on good terms, he can give him something that might improve the reputation of the other party. But the pros and cons should be weighed by the other party. As for why hide yourself? No one likes a conspirator. He didn't want Charlie to be too wary of himself.

Douglas walked away with his things. For the next few days, Link didn't see much movement. However, he was not in a hurry, he knew that Douglas would also need time to find the right person.