Chapter 41: A Trip to the United States (3)
"To, transfer $50,000 to this account......"
Thomson handed over the written process to his stockbroker, Su Green, who refused to do it.
"You, what kind of god are you doing? …… Unfortunately, I refuse. ”
"Sugrin! I solemnly ask you, are you still ready to be my agent? ”
"Uh, but ......"
"Say no more, it's my decision! Just do it......"
After Thomson said this, the man almost collapsed.
Su Green shook his head and did the following:
first transferred the $50,000 in Thomson's account to Fan Jianxin's account, and then applied for a maximum of 20 times leveraged financing for Fan Jianxin, and then bought all the shares of General Motors of the United States, which is currently in a recession due to the soaring oil prices.
Next, as planned, the remaining funds in Thomson's account were also leveraged by 20 times, and he also bought shares of General Motors......
Seeing that Su Green's operation was completed, Fan Jianxin pulled Thomson out of the trading floor.
Truth be told, at this time the stock prices of all auto manufacturing are on the floor, and the cheap ones couldn't be cheaper. Even General Motors, which is one of the best in the industry, has a stock price of just $0.17.
If he has spare money, Fan Jianxin wants to hold the stock of General Motors for a few years.
Out of curiosity, all this, Maridana observed.
After Fan Jianxin and Thomson left, she invested $100,000 and also bought some GM stock.
What she thinks is very simple, when the stock market is so sluggish, someone dares to increase 20 times the financing leverage to buy a stock with a sluggish industry, except that this person is crazy, that is, what insider information does this person have.
After a few conversations with the young man with an Asian face, she realized that this person was not simple, and he was by no means an ordinary person. With her cat's fishy sensitivity, she felt that young Asians could bring her luck.
Really.
Near the close of the afternoon, General Motors' stock suddenly exploded by 5.8 percent, making Maridana smile from ear to ear.
$5,800 gain!
Fan Jianxin met Ma Lidana by mistake, and he didn't know that Ma Lidana was a bull in the New York stock market in the eighties and nineties.
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On February 16, Fan Jianxin came to the New York Stock Exchange after eating and drinking.
It wasn't until the stock market opened that it was discovered that General Motors had been suspended, and a stone in Fan Jianxin's heart fell to the ground. He didn't want to stay here, and was about to go out, when he saw Thomson's bad face before coming to the securities company, and it was estimated that he had not slept all night.
Fan Jianxin suppressed his joy, and said to Thomson, "General Motors is suspended today", and said, "There is a Chinese proverb 'things are made in secret, and defeat is leaked', so you and I should not contact each other again." ”
After speaking, Fan Jianxin walked towards Broadway. Only then did he notice that the front pages of major newspapers reported and publicized this "match made in heaven" between the United States and the island country.
On Friday, February 17, at 10:30 a.m., the New York stock market opened on time (it was winter, and winter time was used).
The resumption of GM shares, which had been suspended for a day, was affected by the factor of a joint venture with Honda Automobile of the island country to produce 200,000 vehicles per year, and opened at a strong price of 28%, an increase of more than 40% soon......
Fan Jianxin did not hesitate to declare the GM shares he held for sale at a price lower than the market, and all the shares were sold in an instant.
Two hours later, he boarded a plane to Seattle.
In the past few days, he has been paying attention to the technology stocks in the New York stock market, and the listed companies with a market value of more than one trillion yuan have not found a few, and even the famous Microsoft company is not well known.
As soon as I inquired, there was no such listed company on the New York stock market.
He was happy, a little crazy.
On this trip to the United States, all the expenses were Thomson's, and he received $50,000 from him for consulting fees, plus $4,000 paid when opening an account, for a total of $54,000. plus 20 times the top leveraged financing, with a total amount of 1.08 million.
He did what some people thought was crazy, and he bought all the money into General Motors stock......
Today, shortly after the opening of trading, Fan Jianxin sold all GM shares at a price increase of 40%, making a profit of $432,000. After deducting commissions, taxes, and interest on financing, plus the original principal, he now has $478,982 in his account.
This is a lot of money, converted into RMB at the official exchange rate of 8:1, excluding fractions, which is 3.83 million yuan.
He is already a little rich, which is a rare thing when the "10,000 yuan households" in Huaxia are still a rarity.
Fan Jianxin is not satisfied, this is just a start-up capital, far from the end of his trip to the United States. He must make the most of his money and make money profitable.
He had no intention of bringing the money back to Huaxia at all.
He knew that if he brought this money back to Mizhou City, which was in the era of foreign exchange shortage, he would definitely be valued by the city government, and even hold him like a rich investor who had returned from overseas, and would give him many preferential investment policies and give him the green light in many fields.
He only needs to register an investment company in the United States, and under the banner of foreign capital, open an electrical factory in Huaxia to produce televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, and cassette recorders that Chinese people are eager to have......
Embark on the road to prosperity.
However, the living example of the richest man in the middle of the period, and the unjustified detention of the Dongdajie Police Station this time, made him dare not do this. If it weren't for Thomson this time, if the three law enforcement officers convicted him of a trumped-up crime, it would definitely be enough for him to drink a pot.
Even if he can be acquitted in the future, he will still have to endure the pain of prison.
Although he did not have the idea of using the money to invest in Huaxia for the time being, he still registered an international trading company in the United States. Because he is a small dragon (snake), he named the company "Longteng" to prepare for international trade in the future......
After Mu Qizhong was released from prison at the age of 76, he still has 264 houses in the capital under his name, and it is not a problem to provide for the elderly.
He wants to learn to make a mid-term and leave a guaranteed life money for himself. He decided to invest in the United States first, and the first choice was Microsoft.
Is Apple Computer a bad company?
Of course not, and now is not the time.
When Apple's shareholders foolishly kick Steve Jobs, the company's founder, out of Apple, it will be the perfect time to invest.
The New York Stock Exchange does not have Microsoft shares now, and it is estimated that Microsoft has not yet met the conditions for listing at this time, and is still struggling in Seattle.
It's a great time to invest in Microsoft.
Fan Jianxin remembers very well that Bill Gates is ten years older than him, and now Bill Gates' age should be 28 years old. Gates started his business before graduating from university, and Microsoft must have been founded at this time.
At this time, when will it take not to invest in Microsoft?!
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The plane arrived in Seattle after about 6 hours of flight, and it was late after getting off the plane, Fan Jianxin took a taxi and went straight to Redmond.
When the taxi arrived at its destination, the meter on it showed $150, which made Fan Jianxin a little painful, and he really wanted to punch the driver and jump away from the scene......
Microsoft is headquartered in China. Redmond, Sannun (next to Seattle).
In 1980, IBM selected Microsoft to write a key operating system for its new PC, which was a major turning point in Microsoft's development.
Due to the tight schedule and the complexity of programming, Microsoft bought the rights to use the QDOS operating system from a Seattle programmer named Tim Paterson for $50,000.
It was partially rewritten and provided to IBM and named Disk Operating System (Microsoft DOS).
The popularity of IBM-PCs has made MS-DOS a huge success, as other PC manufacturers want to be compatible with IBM. MS-DOS is licensed to many companies. So in the 80s, it became the standard operating system for PCs.
Fan Jianxin came at a good time, and if it had been a few months away, his trip to Seattle would not have been so lucky.
In March 1983, Microsoft signed a contract with IBM to provide the BASIC interpreter for IBM PCs, as well as the operating system.
Subsequently, Microsoft continued to develop software for computers at IBM, Apple, and Radio Equipment.
Since then, Microsoft has embarked on a path of rapid development.
In 1985, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows 1.0, which was the first product in the Windows family and the first attempt by Microsoft to operate the platform for personal computers and user graphical interfaces.
This year, Microsoft's sales exceeded $100 million before the company was eligible to go public.
Fan Jianxin met Bill Gates for the second day.
At this time, Microsoft had only about 20 employees, and it could only be said that it was a fledgling computer company.
The current Bill Gates is young and full of vitality, and has not yet lost the taste of youth. To put it bluntly, he is a programmer, a big boss at Microsoft, but like his employees, he spends most of his day coding.
A hard-working coder.
"I want to invest in your company, but only invest in the management of the company......"
Fan Jianxin directly expressed his willingness to invest in Microsoft, and his model of only investing and not participating in management is the most popular in Europe and the United States and other countries. Most investors want to participate in the management of a company once they invest in it.
But, even so, he was directly rejected by Bill Gates.
Of course, Fan Jianxin would not give up, and immediately talked with Bill Gates.
He talked to Bill Gates about the future direction of computer development, which is his forte, because he knows the history of computer development in later generations.
He is more cutting-edge than Gates's cognition.
After communicating with him, Gates deeply felt that this Chinese young man was not only unique, but also quite forward-looking.
As a matter of fact, Fan Jianxin has tried his best to talk about computers according to the current level of computer development, otherwise, it would be too sensational.
Fan Jianxin pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft, and the cooperation with IBM will inevitably have the problem of competition in the future, so that Bill Gates can prepare early.
He also talked about the feasibility and complementarity of cooperation with Apple......
"Brother Gates, I suggest that your company have a new Apple Lisa computer, which Apple launched last month, which combines a graphical user interface with a mouse, and uses too many advantages......"
Bill Gates listened to Fan Jianxin's words, and replied with a little pain: "I went to California not long ago and visited the Apple Computer Company's computer, which is really good, and it is a very practical and unique invention...... However, the price is too high! ”
"So, Brother Gates, I came to invest in your company...... I think your company's research direction should focus more on the development of the operating system of the graphical user interface, so that the computer screen can become a window for users to connect with the world. In the further use of telephone lines to connect computers in different regions......"
Fan Jianxin talked about the hypothetical idea of LAN and the Internet, and described this kind of thing that has not yet appeared to Bill Gates.
"Wow! It's really a good idea......"
Bill Gates was also shocked by this assumption.
Fan Jianxin thought to himself, this is the operating system that your Microsoft company came up with a few years later. Riding the hot iron, borrowing the flowers of Microsoft in the future, dedicated them to Bill Gates, and came up with the names of the software that Microsoft developed in the future to operate computers......