Chapter 199: Making Smith Capital a True Giant
The evening breeze is blowing, and night has fallen on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Sunny weather, as well as a breezy night, are often the most comfortable times in Hawaii.
After the afternoon, beach swimming, whale watching experience.
The relationship between Amanda and Abel is obviously much more familiar.
The two cousins also stayed in this manor beach house in Abel.
At the beach house restaurant, everyone had dinner and everyone went to wash up.
Around half past seven.
Amanda Hearst, who finished bathing, took her cousin Lydia Hearst with great interest and wanted to go to find Abel.
Lydia looked a little resistant:
"Amanda, just go yourself. I think you can take him down yourself. β
"I have that confidence, too." Amanda said confidently.
"But I still need you to cover me, Lydia. Obviously, when you're there, that guy will be even more irresistible to me. β
"Heh~" Amanda sneered, "The allure of sister flowers to men is really great. β
Lydia looked at Amanda speechlessly.
"Then I'm going to sacrifice myself for your plan?" Lydia Hearst asked.
"Then I don't want to!"
"You're thinking too much. Lydia, I just need your assist! Amanda said:
"If you really want to grab a man with me, then I'll be angry!"
"And you're calling me over?" Lydia said.
"It's not that he's as bad as any other man." Amanda muttered.
"Sister flowers, sister flowers. Lydia, just help me. β
Lydia Hirst was helpless.
She wanted to refuse, but under Amanda's stubborn beating and dragging.
In the end, she accompanied Amanda to find Abel.
Upon entering the periphery of one of the three master bedrooms, the two were stopped by bodyguards.
It has already been said before.
This Hawaiian beachfront villa has a total of three super luxury detached houses at the master bedroom level.
The three large bedrooms, all at master level, are separate from the garden courtyard.
Abel's master bedroom is best located closest to the sea.
The ocean access that can be swam directly from the villa to the sea is also the closest to this bedroom.
"I'm sorry, Miss Hearst. Is there anything wrong with you? β
Edward, the captain of the bodyguard, asked softly.
"We're looking for Abel." Amanda's attitude was quite polite.
"Ahem, cough, cough"
Edward coughed under his breath and said:
"Probably not right now. Our boss, who is resting with Ms. Theron. β
"Sleep?" Amanda's good-looking eyebrows raised, "Rested so early?" β
Edward thought to himself that rest is rest, and sleep is sleep.
It's just not the kind of sleep you think.
"Yes. Boss him. It shouldn't be convenient for the time being. Edward said.
Amanda wanted to say something, but Lydia Hearst pulled her away.
After leaving the range of the bodyguards.
Amanda said dissatisfiedly:
"Lydia, what do you do? Don't you think it's weird? Abel rested so early? This is not normal! There must be a problem. β
Lydia Hearst looked at her cousin angrily.
"Go to bed at half past seven. It's not normal indeed. But Amanda, are you sure it's really just "sleeping"? β
"Amount"
Amanda immediately understood what Lydia was referring to.
"You mean to say." Amanda whispered:
"Abel is doing that kind of thing with that Charlleze?"
"Or else?" Lydia's good-looking eyebrows raised.
I was full of wine and food, and I played with three beauties during the afternoon during the day.
Abel is still so young.
At this time, it's normal to go and "play" with Charlize that kind of thing, right?
"Okay." Amanda gritted her teeth, "Then we'll come back later!" β
Lydia was a bit of a defeat to her cousin.
Don't give up like this?
Obviously, everyone is already doing that kind of thing with other women!
An hour later.
Amanda dragged her cousin to find her again.
On the periphery, it was still blocked by Edward.
"Didn't you just say that your boss was "sleeping"? Amanda said dissatisfied.
When she said the word "sleep", she deliberately accentuated her tone.
As if he wanted Edward, the captain of the bodyguard, to understand what she was referring to.
"Eh" Edward was stunned, he already had two children, he was almost forty years old, and he had a little headache when he looked at the two young girls.
Edward, the captain of the bodyguard, took a few steps back and decided to let the female bodyguard captain Donny come over.
Let Doni deal with these two young ladies of the Hearst family.
Doni is here.
She faced the two girls more directly than Edward.
"Two Miss Hearst. That's right, the owner is indeed sleeping. β
"But you may not know. When our boss sleeps, he usually sleeps for several hours. β
Amanda frowned, "Ma'am." We understand what it means to "sleep". But we don't understand what you mean by "sleeping for hours". β
Doni looked at Amanda, and she thought to herself - little girl, you don't know how terrible our boss is in this regard!
"It's literal." Doni decided to put it more bluntly.
"Our boss, every time we slept Miss Theron. Or his other female companions, for hours at a time. β
βwhatοΌοΌβ Amanda was shocked.
She still wanted to speak.
And to his cousin Lydia Hestra.
"No way, that woman is lying!"
Walking to a place where no one is, Amanda emphasises to Lydia:
"I haven't experienced it yet, though! But that kind of thing, how many hours? How can it be! β
"I've read a physiology textbook!!"
Lydia was helpless.
She thinks that even if she really reads it, she doesn't need to say it so bluntly, right?
There are also bodyguards patrolling the rocks nearby.
"Amanda, I don't want to go crazy with you anymore. Perhaps, Mr. Smith, in "
At this, Lydia was a little shy, but looking around, she lowered her voice.
"Maybe he's really like that in that regard? He's "busy" now, let's not go over!! β
Amanda is a little unconvinced, but the present really doesn't fit into the past.
When it was about nine o'clock and almost ten o'clock, Amanda didn't give up and wanted to drag Lydia over again.
Lydia refused to be killed this time, and was dragged halfway by Amanda and ran away.
Seeing Lydia running away, Amanda was angry and decided to go to Abel herself.
Amanda felt that it must be Abel's bodyguard who was deceiving herself.
Amanda has read physiology books.
How can a man be so long!
On the other side, Lydia wanted to go back to her room.
She was afraid that her cousin would go back and pull herself out.
I decided not to go back to my room and to go back later.
She plans to go to one of the villa's several living rooms, one of which faces the sea.
Stay there for a while and come back to the room later.
When she came to the living room, she was surprised to see Abel with his upper body naked and wet hair, obviously just taking a shower, watching TV.
"Ah~Mr. Smith?" Lydia whispered.
"It's Lydia. Good evening. She saw Able smile at herself.
This smile made Lydia think that this was Mr. Smith.
With his looks and figure alone, even if he goes to Hollywood or the modeling circle, he can eat a good meal.
"You that"
Lydia wanted to say that you are still in the master bedroom, sleeping with Charlize Theron, Amanda has found it.
Abel didn't know what she was going to say.
He did explain a little bit why he was here at this time.
"Something is going on in Southeast Asia and it could be an opportunity for my company. This living room has the largest TV in the entire villa. I'm here to watch the news. β
Lydia also saw him in his hand, which was holding a remote control at this time.
In the living room, the picture on the latest 52-inch LCD TV is playing the news from Southeast Asia.
"Oh, oh." Lydia answered.
She looked at Abel's naked upper body, her face was a little hot, and she was neither advancing nor retreating.
When she was about to speak, she saw that Abel had stopped paying attention to herself and was concentrating on watching TV.
Lydia hesitated, then slowly slipped in.
Her curious gaze also looked at the contents of the LCD TV.
She found out that the content above was an international news channel on NBC television.
What is playing above is a news event that happened during the day today in a country called the Philippines in Southeast Asia.
In the news event, the Supreme Court of the Philippines announced that it would deprive a Grand Commander called Estrada of his rights.
On the same day, another guy from this country, named Aloyue, was sworn in as the new Grand Commander.
Lydia knew that Filipbin existed, and she knew that it was a relatively pro-American country.
It used to be a colony of the United States.
Lydia hadn't been there, though, and that place was about the same as Africa to her.
A European and American girl of her age. This is generally the case with the rest of the world except Europe and North America.
That is, Lydia received a slightly better education.
At least they know about the existence of the country of the Philippines.
If it were replaced by other ordinary European and American girls, they would not have traveled to the Philippines.
I guess they've never heard of this place.
Lack of common sense is a common problem of the vast majority of Europeans and Americans after the woolly bear fell.
Naitoule education wants this kind of effect.
Lydia also doesn't know that Abel, a Wall Street mogul and Hollywood mogul.
How can you care about the news of such a small and remote country.
Is there any interest in this kind of place?
Lydia was curious.
She noticed that Abel was after watching the news.
He picked up a phone that looked like a satellite phone and started making calls.
She wondered if she wanted to leave.
It doesn't seem good to be here when people are on the phone.
But the devil sent God, and Lydia didn't go.
She said to herself:
[Mr. Smith knows I'm here.] He didn't let me go or he walked away on his own, so it didn't matter if I heard the call. γ
"David, it's me."
".600 billion, Lehman Brothers, did they enter?"
"Well, what about your judgment?"
Well, that's a good judgment. This time you'll do it yourself. β
This is a test. As long as the results of your test can satisfy me. β
"Then after that, you will be eligible for a single $100 million, a single day of less than $500 million."
That's all I ask. But I won't say anything more. If I had to say it, I might as well go back to New York and trade it myself. β
There is nothing wrong with that. See for yourselves. That's it. β
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Abel hung up the satellite phone.
He looked at the LCD TV, and the rest of the international news was lost in thought.
He took the initiative to call David Mellon on that phone call just now.
What he was talking about with David Mellon was after he came to Hawaii for a vacation in the past few days.
Smith Capital initiated an international hedge investment under the operation of David Mellon and other employees.
The investment target is Philippine pesos, and the goal is to short Philippine pesos for profit.
To put it simply.
It is to play the same game that Soros played against several countries in Southeast Asia back then.
But on scale, it's much smaller, and it's a lot more restrictive.
Those small countries, after suffering losses for more than nine years, are no longer so stupid.
But encounter the appropriate black swan event.
For example, what is happening in the Philippines today.
International travel funds can still be operated a little.
That is, the profit will not be particularly exaggerated, and the operation is more cumbersome.
However, it is precisely because the scale is relatively small, the operation is also cumbersome, and the risk is controllable.
Abel asked Smith Capital to give it a try, without his own involvement.
Look at how much money Smith Capital can make on their own.
In other words, this is more than half a year since Smith Capital was founded.
For the first time, Abel opened the company's trading and investment rights to other Smiths Capital traders besides himself.
And before that, the entire Smith Capital was up and down.
Only he, the boss, has trading privileges.
Other analysts and traders are tasked with collecting intelligence and analyzing the market every day.
When Abel wants to play with a big ticket, they will be busy for a few days.
This model is undoubtedly very deformed.
None of the entire Wall Street did that.
If Abel doesn't want to make Smith Capital bigger, he has always only let Smith Capital be his own tool.
That would indeed maintain this deformed pattern forever.
But now, under Abel's management.
Smith Capital + Pacific Commercial Bank.
The combination of the two already has the prototype of a Wall Street giant.
It is still an investment bank + commercial bank model, which has more advantages than several other Wall Street investment banks.
It's just that if this deformity pattern continues.
It's hard to be big enough to be on the same scale as other Wall Street giants.
What's more, Abel is a little worried about his "talent", which is a deadline.
In case the time expires, I will lose this one.
At that time, if Smith Capital still maintained this model.
That's when the time of Smith Capital's death has arrived.
Therefore, Abel thought about taking advantage of his current "talent".
Smith Capital has also grown in size.
It's time to scale Smith Capital, and it's time to make it a serious Wall Street giant.
He thought, step by step, gradually opening up his permissions.
Let David Mellon and the company's traders have preliminary trading privileges.
At the same time, recruit talents, under their own surveillance.
Within a few years, the size of Smiths Capital was expanded.
Strive to make Smith Capital one of the serious Wall Street giants before 08.
It's the kind of real top Wall Street giant like Goldman Sachs, with more than 20,000 "vice presidents".
This time, let them try to short the Philippine peso, which is the rhythm of his training.
If all goes well, Smiths Capital will continue to scale up and hire talent next.
And then this was the first time that he was training under the condition of delegating power.
Under his hands, David Mellon, who had been in the company for a year and had almost forgotten all about his investment skills, was a little unconfident.
When encountering something big or small, without asking the boss of Abel, I am a little worried and a little doubtful of myself.
Abel was on Charlize just now, just when he was out for the third time.
David called the phone.
Abel saw that Charlize was almost paralyzed from exhaustion, so he let her go.
Thinking about David Mellon's training with them, he also wanted to care about the process.
Abel came here to watch the news and learn about the situation in New York.
So far, David Mellon has done a decent pass.
Smith Capital in this international hedging investment.
The total investment is about 500 million US dollars, twice the leverage, and the purchase of 600 billion Philippine pesos contract positions is short.
It took three days, and the first two days were more than $1 million in surplus.
This kind of big thing happened in the Philippines today, and the Philippine peso quickly ran out.
This made Smith Capital, which shorted Philippine pesos, a floating profit of more than $10 million soon.
David Mellon is a little unsure. I don't know if at this time, whether to continue to hold or arbitrage and leave.
Abel was on the phone just now, and let David and the other traders decide for themselves.
But in fact, Abel's "talent" told Abel.
At this time, it is time to leave directly.
The economy of the Philippines is like that, and the foreign exchange plate is also very small.
It's already very good to be able to make a profit of one or two million dollars.
At this time, it is best to leave the market directly, and it is safest to arbitrage and leave.
After all, it's not a super market like USD/JPY.
In the entire international foreign exchange market, the Philippines belongs to the kind with a relatively small plate.
It is a little bit to be able to earn a little, and there is no need to be nostalgic.
I just don't know what choice David Mellon will make.
Abel was also curious.
If they pass, Able will let them test it a few more times.
After they really meet Abel's requirements, he will open most of the permissions to them.
If they are not qualified, then they can only let David Mellon and their gang of veterans continue to be Abel's own tool man.
Abel then recruited investment managers from the outside who would invest.
Anyway, Abel has already made up his mind to expand the scale of Smith Capital.
What he thinks is, even if he doesn't have his own talent in the future.
This company can also make money and make profits normally like a big investment bank.
To be a Wall Street giant, you have to be like a Wall Street giant!
Thinking so, he stood up.
Turning around, she saw Lydia Hearst beside her, looking at Abel herself, as if she was in a daze.
Of course he knew Lydia wasn't gone.
But just like Lydia thought.
Abel felt that this was not a big secret, and it didn't matter if the girl heard it.
At this time, looking at Lydia's somewhat stupid eyes, he smiled and said:
"Miss Hearst? Lydia? Lydia? β
"Huh?" Lydia woke up.
Only then did she realize that she was a little daze when she looked at Abel's handsome side face just now.
It's a bit of a faux pas.
Lydia blushed.