While most people were still negative about whether Iraq would invade Kuwait, starting at 6 a.m. Kuwaiti time on August 1, Iraq's eight combat divisions assembled on the Iraq-Kuwait border quickly launched an attack formation in just one day, and radio communications, which had been silent, began to send encrypted messages intensively.

The U.S. side, which was observed by the military spy satellite, realized that Saddam Hussein really seemed to be about to do something.

At one o'clock in the morning of 2 August local time in Kuwait, with Saddam's order, Iraq's 100,000-strong army crossed the Iraq-Kuwait border like a tide and swept into Kuwait, and the news of the war spread all over the world in less than an hour, shocking the world.

The moment the war broke out, it happened to be 6 p.m. EST on August 1.

Before the close of the day, well-informed investment institutions seized the last opportunity to start a frenzy of entry, smashing large buy orders into the crude oil futures market, and in just two or two hours before the close, the price of crude oil rose by $0.7 to close at $21.6, an increase of 3%.

However, for the speculators who have invested huge sums of money in the crude oil futures market during this time, this is just the beginning, a big three doors have been opened, some people have stepped into heaven, and some people have stepped into hell.

When the war began, everyone in Eric's team breathed a sigh of relief, although there were a lot of doubts in their hearts, but after more than a month, everyone finally had a good night's sleep, and the cannon roared in a corner of the Persian Gulf, in the suite of the Sixty Soho Hotel. Eric also slept very deeply with Xiao Nizi in his arms.

It's midnight in New York. The Persian Gulf happens to be the dawn. It took only eight hours for the Iraqi army to occupy all of Kuwait, and after 17 hours, the fighting was completely over, and Saddam Hussein announced to the world that Kuwait had been annexed to Iraq as the nineteenth province of Iraq, and the Emir, the head of state of Kuwait, fled to Saudi Arabia in a helicopter with his family.

New York, Thursday, August 2.

Had a good night's rest. Eric had breakfast with Drew and met with Chris and the trading team at nine o'clock, when everyone in the team looked at Eric with surprise and confusion in their eyes, but Eric didn't mean to explain it to anyone.

In a café on the street side of Sixth Avenue, Eric and Chris sat opposite each other, and Xiao Nizi with a toad mirror behind her was boringly stirring the coffee in front of her, and there was still an hour before the opening of crude oil futures trading, and everyone was here for a short break.

"Daddy flew back to his Maryland farm at ten o'clock, Emily had already taken him to the airport, and he said he didn't want to see you anymore, the little bastard who had scared him for a month. Chris said with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, but the doubt in his eyes was not hidden at all.

Eric laughed and snorted, "Let's get down to business." ”

Chris doesn't seem to have any intention of getting to the bottom of it. continued: "Okay, what are you going to do next?"

Eric shrugged: "I've done everything I can do, and then there's the stage for you professionals." ”

Chris nodded, what Eric did was to smash all the chips into the crude oil futures market under huge pressure, this is not an easy thing, Chris can't figure out where Eric got his hunch from, a month ago, the Kuwait war had no clue at all.

Now that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait has become a reality, and these two countries account for a quarter of the proven oil reserves, once the two countries merge, and Saddam Hussein's policy of reducing crude oil production and raising prices, it is inevitable that international crude oil prices will soar.

"Then you should always give me a general plan, like, when are we going to quit this game?"

Eric looked at the traffic outside the window and muttered for a while before saying, "Three months, we'll clear the warehouse and leave the market in three months." ”

Chris looked interested, leaned closer with his arms on the table, and whispered, "Three months, Eric, can you tell me what you have a premonition this time?"

Eric whispered solemnly, "I have a hunch that on the last day of October, there will be a lot of ghosts and ghosts on the streets of the Federation, and they will snatch countless sweets from thousands of households. ”

Drew, who had pricked up his little ears and listened intently, burst out laughing.

Chris rolled his eyes as well.

After making a joke, Eric spread his hands: "Chris, I'm not a god, really." So don't ask me what I have a hunch, luck plays a big part in being able to bet on the situation this time. ”

"Okay, then I won't ask, I'll leave in three months according to your arrangement," Chris said, concentrating on the snacks and coffee in front of him.

Eric also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't know how to explain this to Chris at all, and it seemed that he would never be able to explain it.

Because the electronic disk trading system was only applied to the futures trading market in 1992, the current crude oil futures trading is still mainly manual operation.

At 10 a.m., after the opening of New York Mercantile Oil futures, the price began to rise rapidly in a very steep curve.

Eric and Nizi walked around the bustling trading floor, and quickly retreated.

As he said in the café, he was able to do it in July, and now everything can be handled by Chris and the trading team.

Returning to the hotel with Drew, Eric was stopped by the waitress at the front desk, "Mr. Williams, please wait a minute. ”

Eric looked over suspiciously, and the waitress handed over a sticky note full of phone numbers: "This is the phone number that you called to find you after you went out in the morning, and they said that your mobile phone and the landline in your room couldn't get through?"

"Oh, I turned it off to avoid being disturbed," Eric explained, took the note and thanked him, and went back to his room with Drew.

"Eric, whose phone is it?" In the elevator, Nizi poked her head over and looked at the sticky notes in Eric's hand.

"Over there in Los Angeles. A bunch of old men. Eric said lightly.

Drew saw names such as Rupert Murdoch, Michael Eisner, Steve Ross and others. He withdrew his gaze in boredom.

Back in his room, Eric connected the phone line and dialed the phone number back in his hand.

As soon as the phone was connected, Eric immediately pursed his lips and made a sad look: "Mr. Murdoch, I'm sorry, I wasn't in a good mood before, so I unplugged the phone line...... No, no, no. Never mind...... It's hard to say right now......"

A few minutes later, Eric had just hung up the phone when he caught a glimpse of Nizi rolling around on the couch with a cushion in her arms.

Eric reached out and gestured in front of his mouth and made a zipper gesture, and the girl immediately nodded sensibly.

The trading team hired by Eric had previously signed a strict confidentiality agreement, and they would also receive a huge commission from the transaction, and as beneficiaries, these people would certainly not divulge the details of the transaction, let alone Jeffrey and his son, but beyond that. Until the detailed process of this transaction, Drew was the only one. Although Eric knew that Xiao Nizi would definitely not betray herself, she still explained at this time, so as not to accidentally say something wrong.

With Drew's shrewdness, Eric believes that he is just a gesture and that the girl knows what to do.

After explaining, Eric dialed back one by one, although many people knew that Eric had placed a heavy bet in the futures market, but whether it was bullish or short, these people did not know. After all, before the first time, because of the soaring crude oil prices in a few months, there were more speculators who chose to go short than long, because even if Iraq deployed a large number of troops on the Iraq-Kuwait border, most people did not believe that war would break out in the Middle East, but unfortunately, Saddam's behavior this time surprised a large number of people.

After taking some time to reply to the phone one by one, Eric went back to the couch and turned on the TV, choosing the NBC news channel, at this time the TV was scrolling live news about the Middle East, Drew got tired of it, and said with a grin: "Eric, I think I must be unable to hide it." ”

"It's just a delay in the news," Eric laughed, "those are old foxes, and it's impossible to hide them from them." ”

The girl grimaced: "Then you just ...... it"

"What if they get the news and get too excited and have a heart attack, it looks like I'm actually a good person," Eric joked

The girl giggled a few times and said, "I'm also a good person." ”

After five and a half hours of trading, at 2:30 p.m., the price of NME crude oil futures soared from $21.6 at the opening to $23.5, an insane 8.8% increase, and Eric's account had a surplus of $600 million for the day.

At dinner, Chris informed Eric of the good news, but Eric saw a faint sadness on Chris's face, and after asking, Chris confided the truth: "I called a good friend of Morgan Stanley to ask me about the situation here after the market closed, I consulted him some time ago about the news, and he knew that I was speculating in oil futures during this time. ”

"Huh?" asked Eric, confused, knowing that Chris had only said a beginning.

Chris said in a quiet tone: "A senior executive at Morgan Stanley embezzled $120 million from the headquarters to short crude oil futures, which was also ten times leveraged, and it was ...... after the afternoon market closed Jumped off the building. ”

Eric was also silent, and Chris adjusted his feelings and said, "Eric, I don't know how you made your judgment this time, I believe you did it because you were absolutely sure before." But don't play like that again. ”

Eric nodded solemnly, "I promise." ”

Chris got up and patted Eric on the shoulder, and was about to leave, when Drew, who was carrying a large pile of shopping bags, burst in and shouted, "Eric, when I was passing by Fifth Avenue, I saw someone jumping off the building, falling to the ground, so disgusting, I heard that there have been several jumpers." ”

After Xiao Nizi finished speaking, she noticed that the faces of the two men in the room had become a little unsightly, and she immediately stuck out her tongue, shrunk her little neck and slipped into her room.

Chris shook his head and said, "I don't like this girl, she has a good personality and is too cold. ”

Eric glanced at Drew's door and said, "If Drew hadn't been connecting me and Jeffrey, I wouldn't be where I am now, and I wouldn't have fireflies." ”

Chris also apparently knew a lot about what had happened, and shrugged, "Okay, just as I didn't say." ”

"Well, Chris, she's just a little kid. ”

"It's going to grow up," Chris shook his head again, "if you're not 100% sure you'll be able to manage her, let it go." ”

"I know," Eric smiled, and kept getting Chris to the elevator door before returning to his room.

Xiao Nizi had already returned to the living room at this time, sitting cross-legged on the sofa angrily: "I heard it all." ”

Eric stepped forward and pinched the girl's face, "Did Chris still wrong you?"

"Hmph," the girl twisted her head, trying to shake off Eric's hand.

"Chris has a colleague who just jumped off a building in the afternoon, and you just said it so elatedly, do you expect him to say anything good about you?"

"But I just don't like it when he says that about me. Eric, do you think I'm ...... Am I that kind of person?"

Eric took the girl into his arms and hugged her lovingly: "You are you, never care what others say, you will always be my little girl." ”

"Hmm," Nizi emotionally rested her chin on Eric's shoulder, "Eric, I love you." ”

"I know. ”

"And when did you start loving me?"

"It's a bit difficult," Eric said as he pinched the girl's slender waist, "Look, you've been fat again, and I don't like chubby girls." ”

"What," the girl immediately hammered Eric on the back in dissatisfaction, "I weigh myself every week, and I'm not fat at all." ”

Drew said, leaning back slightly from his body straddling Eric's knees, lifting the hem of his small T-shirt to reveal his flat lower abdomen, and twisting it ostentatiously: "Now, look." ”

"Well, little brunette," Eric teased again, a month has passed, and the girl's skin tone on the Hawaiian beach has become much whiter, but the overall color is not as fair as before.

"Don't call me a little brunette," the girl said with her head on Eric's chest, huffing.

"Alright, get up, let's finish dinner, what do you want to eat for the night?"

"Hmm, let me think about ......"

……

By the time he went to bed at night, Eric had heard no less than a dozen stories of people jumping off buildings because of today's sharp rise in crude oil prices.

Although there is no expression on his face, he still giggles with Xiao Nizi, but Eric is still quite touched, the futures market is a gambling market, all contracts are two-way, you bet up, and someone will buy and fall, because the price of crude oil has risen sharply today, Eric has received 600 million US dollars in one day, which means that someone has lost 600 million.

Of course, those who gamble their entire worth and lose all their worth are not very sympathetic either. (To be continued......)