On Monday I bought the stock,

Tuesday I became a millionaire,

Wednesday lived in a luxurious residence,

Sitting in my carriage on Thursday,

Friday rushed to the opera house,

Saturday came to the slums.

This popular song in the United States expresses the crazy gambling nature of buying and selling short in the stock market of capitalist countries and making huge profits.

Lin Zhichao came to Wall Street in New York again to experience the taste of the 'stock god' and see the dynamics of leeks.

On Broadway Avenue in New York, high-rise buildings are lined up one after another, and people follow these high-rise buildings to become a 'canyon'; Walking towards Wall Street, you can see a Corinthian-colonnaded edifice around the corner, home to the world-famous New York Stock Exchange.

Walk through the main door, through the narrow aisle, and climb the stairs or take the elevator to the second floor. Standing in the spacious corridor, you can see the situation of the trading floor at a glance.

There are often one or two thousand people on the trading floor, including the staff in the trading floor, so there is always a lot of noise and chaos.

Some of the people in the hall were talking to each other, some were shouting hoarsely, some were hurrying away, but no one was running, because the rules of the exchange forbade running in the hall, and there was no penalty of fifty dollars.

The hall is made up of two interconnected halls, the so-called wide hall and the corridor hall, but in fact it is only a market. There are a total of 19 trading desks in the hall, which are shaped like a horseshoe, so people in the industry also call it a "horseshoe-shaped building".

Each trading desk is numbered and a market sign is hung on the desk. Twelve of these desks trade more than 50 types of general notes on average, and six trade more than 70 types of stocks. Another trading desk, called "Desk 30", is actually a small room in the corridor that specializes in more than 240 kinds of preferred shares, which are traded in units of 10 shares (New York stocks are generally traded in units of 100 shares).

During trading hours (five hours a day), the hall is constantly sounding, in order to facilitate the telephone students to find a broker to listen to the call, there are two signal boards on the walls on both sides of the hall, there are signal lights indicating the broker's number on the board, and the signal light shines, and the broker can be called.

The documents for transportation to and from the hall are all pneumatic materials installed in the ground that use air pressure. This equipment is available in 19 trading desks, each of which has direct access to 18 telephones.

In addition, at the back of each trading desk, there is another conveying pipe leading to the "market room", which is convenient for the trading desk to notify the "market room" of the transaction price, transaction amount, etc., and then the "market room" is transmitted by the "automatic reporter".

It takes about twenty-four seconds for a transaction to be transmitted.

Only members can trade in the hall, and the exchange currently has 1,366 members, who are divided into four types: commission brokers, binary brokers, expert brokers and fractional share brokers.

Commission brokers specialize in buying and selling on behalf of clients, taking commissions on trades. Most of them are partners or capital owners of stock deals. The scale of this commission stock number is also large and small, the largest of which is called the telephone stock number, and there are branches or correspondents at home and abroad.

Binary brokers are those who specialize in trading when they are busy and accept the entrustment of commission brokers to engage in trading.

Expert brokers are also commission-based brokers who operate their business, but are different from binary brokers. They do not run any dealing desk like a binary broker, but are stationed at a certain trading desk, specializing in studying and waiting for the market rise and fall of the entrusted stock, so as to meet the entrustment.

The word fractional shares of fractional share brokers refers to the trading of one to ninety-nine shares, that is, less than 100 shares.

"Boss, the S&P 500 has fallen by 20% in more than four months, and this time it is really a big drop! Everyone called this sharp drop the 'Kennedy cliff', especially the 'big blue chip' stocks in the steel category, which almost all fell off the cliff. Chris was beside Lin Zhichao and said adoringly.

Their own bosses are the real 'Wall Street elite', who can not only make money in a good market, but also retreat before the market plummets.

Lin Zhichao nodded and said, "We just need to do nothing, maybe we will only act at the end of the year." After all, although I can make more profit by buying the bottom, I prefer a stable environment, or a scenario where the market and its panic are located, and obviously now is not the time. ”

Chris said: "Well, usually everyone has to organize some materials at work, or recharge themselves. ”

The implication is that everyone is waiting for you to show your talents, but don't dismiss everyone.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "Take it easy, I don't have much demand for everyone, you know, I am a long-term investor who likes to speculate in blue chip stocks." As long as you do what I have to do and abide by the employer's confidentiality guidelines, you will be OK. ”

The salary of these foreigners is very high, not lower than that of a local financial institution in the United States, and the annual salary of a financial clerk is as high as 30,000 US dollars; And Chris's annual salary has reached 80,000 US dollars, which is not lost to the vice president of Global Shipping.

This is because Lin Zhichao wants to support this group of people with a high salary to make them more loyal. Loyalty means keeping your employer's information confidential and keeping your funds safe.

Chris smiled and said, "It's such a blessing to earn the boss's salary!" ”

Lin Zhichao smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "I also earned you American's money!" ”

Chris replied: "The U.S. stock market is open to the whole world, and if you want to make money, you have to be like you, boss." Probably more often, the funds were left in the United States. ”

The two talked casually, Lin Zhichao came to New York this time, and he also handled the matter of the 'Yangtze River Investment Fund', first of all, he took away 18 million of the original 58 million US dollars, leaving only 40 million US dollars, which was kept for the bottom in October. Secondly, 22 million US dollars were mobilized from Hong Kong, and 18 million yuan was transferred to Audrey Investment Company.

Chris didn't think much about Lin Zhichao's reduction of funds, after all, it was normal to make money and siphon off some of the funds to develop other businesses.

"Hey, Mr. Lin, Mr. Chris, we meet again!"

Just as Lin Zhichao and Chris were about to leave, they met the 'Wall Street Chinese Stock God' Cai Zhiyong again, and he still greeted him enthusiastically.

It turned out that after he went back last time, he investigated Lin Zhichao and suddenly felt shocked. It turned out that Hong Kong had produced such a wealthy tycoon, and even US President John F. Kennedy had a relationship with him.

Such a rich man is naturally his potential high-quality customer.

"Mr. Cai, don't come unharmed!" Lin Zhichao greeted with a smile.

It is said that during the stock market crash in 1968, he sold his fund to an insurance company, making a big profit of $37 million, and successfully retreated; When he founded it in 1965, the principal was only 2 million, but at that time, the public fund raised 270 million US dollars, creating a historical record on Wall Street, which was not broken by later generations.

"Don't come unharmed. The last time Mr. Chris said to retreat from the rapids, now it seems that I was a little mistaken, and the fact is that as Mr. Chris expected, the US stock market has fallen sharply in recent months. ”

Chris said without changing his face: "It's just luck!" ”

Lin Zhichao naturally won't say that he pointed it out, so let Chris get this honor!

However, Chris doesn't need Wall Street fame, so there is no need to show off, so he and Cai Zhiyong don't talk much.

After a few words, everyone parted.

Lin Zhichao is respectful of Wall Street financial people, unless he can use it for himself.

Because this kind of person is often a powerful person who drinks human blood, and there is no one who is easy to get along with.

And if Lin Zhichao speculates in U.S. stocks, the more low-key the better.

Late May, Hong Kong.

Sitting in the office of Cheung Kong Industrial, Lin Zhichao is in a very good mood, growing up to a rich man of his level, coupled with the memory of his previous life, it is difficult to experience business setbacks, and he can always go smoothly.

Of course, it is undeniable that Lin Zhichao has learned too much over the years; There is also a place in this, that is, Lin Zhichao's brain has undergone a second major development.

Sometimes he is thinking about one thing, assuming that after he crosses, he doesn't want to work too hard, relying on speculation in real estate and stocks, and his future achievements will definitely be hundreds of billions. However, it must be a very long development experience, and the early stage must be very hard.

Hypothetically, he did not remember the time and place of the crash (Beacon Hill, January 1947).

Then, Lin Zhichao can only earn the first pot of gold by relying on his part-time intermediary at the newsstand, an intermediary who specializes in housing sales and leasing. After all, Lin Zhichao has knowledge and insight, and he was willing to work hard at that time and let it go, so he should be able to save up to 5,000 Hong Kong dollars in a year and a half.

In the following 1948, Lin Zhichao could only follow the example of Lee Shau-kee and speculate on gold. At that time, I believe that with his intermediary career, he has actually accumulated some social contacts, at least he will not be deceived and slaughtered.

After a year and a half of speculating in gold, although he did not have the convenience of Lee Shau-kee having an elder brother in Omen, he understood the changes in the situation in the mainland; In this way, the value of gold will appreciate more than three times, and Lin Zhichao may earn about 5 times.

Before September 1949, Lin Zhichao already had a deposit of nearly 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, so naturally he should exchange it for dollars and wait for the pound to depreciate; In this way, his wealth should be upgraded to 28,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Things have developed to this point, it has only been eight or nine months since Li Jiacheng established a plastic factory, and Li Jiacheng still has 50,000 Hong Kong dollars (borrowed more), and Lin Zhichao has less than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, if Lin Zhichao has been mixing in real estate agents, he may be able to reach a wealth of 40,000 Hong Kong dollars; After all, if the intermediary continued to do it from 1948, the money earned could be used to speculate in gold and exchange for US dollars.

So at the end of 1949, Lin Zhichao had 40,000 Hong Kong dollars, maybe not a problem.

So, the question in front of Lin Zhichao is, only 40,000 Hong Kong dollars, even if there are friends who can make up 50,000 Hong Kong dollars at that time, does Lin Zhichao want to open a plastic factory like Li Jiacheng?

With his brain, he may not lose to Li Jiacheng, after all, Li Jiacheng in this era may not be very powerful. But the hardships of this kind of cottage factory must be something that Lin Zhichao, a traverser, is unwilling to accept for a long time.

In this era, the profits of house speculation are not large, and stock speculation is a little unfamiliar, and there is simply no shortcut to take!

Therefore, assuming that Lin Zhichao did not remember the matter of dropping gold, it would take Lin Zhichao three years to be on the same running line as Li Jiacheng!

He would definitely not choose to open a plastic factory, because if his factory had a problem, there would not be a rich uncle to save him.

So what do you do next?

run a newspaper, take the lead in opening the era of new martial arts, and then write some editorials and the like - such as Hong Kong's crisis resolution, etc., in short, for the sake of newspaper sales, it can also involve politics, as long as it is not biased towards one side. I believe that in this way, we can still earn tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars every year, and we can also improve our social status and network.

After running a newspaper, enter the plastic industry at the right opportunity, study hard for two or three years, and plan for the production of plastic flowers. One step ahead of Li Jiacheng, he went to steal the art of plastic flower technology, so that he could earn millions of dollars in 1957.

The important thing is that by 1958, he had the strength to enter the real estate industry to buy the bottom, and the land and property that plummeted by 70% were like a treasure.

It seems that when Lin Zhichao was thirty years old, he was mixed with Li Jiacheng in his previous life.

In fact, it is not, and there is a world of difference in distance:

First, the newspaper can give Lin Zhichao enough social contacts and influence, and can even earn hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars a year, becoming the first in the newspaper industry.

Second, the plastic flower half a year or even a year in advance, which can bring more profits to Lin Zhichao for the 1958 real estate purchase.

Third, it is expected that in 1958, it is expected that 5 million yuan will be used to buy 2 residential real estate and 1 industrial site, which is no problem.

In this way, by 1959, Lin Zhichao had become a real estate buyer, using plastic flowers to continuously provide funds for real estate, and newspapers could provide Lin Zhichao with contacts and social status.

After a few years of stable development, it has greatly surpassed the four major families in the previous life.

In the office, Lin Zhichao couldn't help laughing.

As a traverser, the ability to survive is still very strong, of course, it is Lin Zhichao's current success that he dares to say that his personality is not a problem.

In the previous life, it was not developed because there was no goal and direction when he was young, and the distribution of social resources had ended, and the class was almost fixed.

And the goal and direction of the traverser are very clear, so success is very easy.

Don't doubt it, maybe you'll be next!

Lin Zhichao casually picked up the "Ming Pao" on his desk, and soon understood how "Ming Pao" sold well.

is not relying on Jin Yong's serialized martial arts, that is just a reason to stand firm; The reason why Ming Pao really sold well was that since May this year, they have been writing about what is happening on the border, but when other newspapers were silent, only Ming Pao began to report on the development of events on the border on May 12 and launched donation channels and methods, so the public bought Ming Pao one after another, because they are Chinese.

However, "Ming Pao" offended the Hong Kong government a little by doing so, so like later generations, it began to change its direction a little and publish - small Hong Kong cannot bear too much population, and once it is excessively increased, it will be disastrous, from the perspective of the Hong Kong government

Jin Daxia is a good literati, but he is definitely a powerful businessman.

"These fellow citizens are so pitiful!" Tang Caiyun's voice came from the side, she has always been kind.

This is a good thing, that is, Lin Zhichao is also very kind.

People with good hearts are more likely to achieve great things on the contrary; Of course, the kindness here is not Our Lady, a better representative, of course, Li Jiacheng in the previous life, and Lin Zhichao in this life.

People with bad hearts, although they can also achieve great things, are absolutely limited in height; Because this kind of person does not attach importance to credibility and conscience, although he will succeed for a while, he will never succeed for a lifetime, because you have no reputation, and others will let you make money at most once.

Lin Zhichao buttoned the newspaper, meaning not to read it, reading it would only increase sadness.

"At this time, don't be too kind. How many people do you think you can feed in small Hong Kong? A small pond, if you raise fish, the density is too high, and you can only end up turning all the belly. So, the Hong Kong government is right. Because of this, I have not expressed my position or acted so far. ”

Tang Caiyun was no longer a little girl, so she quickly reacted and said, "Well, you're right! ”

In her eyes, her husband is absolutely kind-hearted, but he is a very rational person, a very powerful man who can do great things. Therefore, every sentence is naturally also the truth.

"When it's over, Oxfam will help those people settle down, and then we'll donate a sum of money to Oxfam."

"Well, I see!"

Lin Zhichao nodded, and the 'Oxfam' at this time was actually still labeled as 'Lin Zhichao', because Xu Caiying succeeded Ge Mulian in 1957 and became the president.

At the same time, Oxfam's influence has been no less than that of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and Po Leung Kuk, and it has become a major charity in Hong Kong.

It stands to reason that this year or next year, London should also award Lin Zhichao a 'knight'.

After all, Lin Zhichao's achievements are great: the 'boss' in the shipping, industry, and real estate industries, and the 'boss' in the charity industry.

Just supporting the establishment and development of Oxfam can actually confer knighthood, let alone solve the problem of more than 20,000 people in Hong Kong

If you don't give it again, it will be a little stingy!

(End of chapter)