Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 521: A serial plan that kills two birds with one stone

July 8, light rain.

Li Jiankun brought the chief lawyer of Orient Overseas Group and Lao Zhou, who had worked happily with him on the "Orient Express" project, to Swire Bank.

Charlie had been looking forward to it for a few days, so he naturally swept up the couch to welcome him.

In his opinion, this time is a profitable business.But he never expected that the profits would be so huge that he was jealous, his father was jealous, and so were other senior executives of Swire Bank...

Time was turned back to when Li Jiankun and Lao Zhou just entered the door.

Charlie enthusiastically invited the two of them to sit down on the European-style sofa. Just like last time, his secretary Lydia brought tea, coffee and snacks, and looked at Li Jiankun with increasingly resentful eyes.

Everyone knows that men often covet the women they can't get.

In fact, women are much the same.

Someone once did a study and concluded that women are six times more astringent than men...

"Lydia, please go out first." Charlie is eager to make a lot of money and take a further step in the family, and he will not let a tool delay his good deeds.

After Lydia swayed her plump buttocks and left the room, he smiled and rubbed his hands and looked at Li Jiankun.

This is an investment project worth more than one billion Hong Kong dollars. It was promised by the other party and written into the contract.After graduating from the University of Birmingham and working in the family bank for five years, he had never handled such a large deal.

His father was in his office upstairs, waiting for good news.

"See for yourself." Li Jiankun handed over a yellow file bag in his hand, "My investment plan can be said to be complicated or simple, and it is relatively detailed."

"It's ok."

If you can make a lot of money, who would still find it cumbersome?

Charlie bypassed the coil, took out a few pages of printed A4 paper, held it in his hand and read it carefully.Looking at it, he raised his head in surprise, "You are not investing in securities, are you going to sell short?"

Li Jiankun said with a half-smile: "Short selling is not investment?"

The so-called short selling means going short.Contrary to the conventional investment in stocks, the normal behavior of buying a stock in the hope that it will appreciate in value is called "going long."

Charlie's lips pressed together, unable to refute, he lowered his head and continued to look, the more he looked, the more frightened he became, and there was something strange in his eyes.

"You, you, you...you have a grudge against our Yingzi? You are targeting Yingzi!"

"That's what I said, you should read it first."

Charlie then turned back and said, OK, there is a Chinese-owned company - Hongkang Group.

Grandma is a bitch, one family is Chinese-owned and 37 are British-owned!

All short!

Shorting 38 listed companies at once...are you mentally ill? ? ?
The only thing that made Charlie think better was that he didn't short his Swire Group.

How could he have imagined that Li Jiankun would give them preferential treatment and specially dig a hole for them and bury a bomb at the bottom...

"Brother Li, can you please stop making trouble? You..."

What a mess!

Listed companies warmly welcome long-term investors.On the contrary, any company is extremely averse to short sellers.

The reason is very simple. The short-selling technique sounds mysterious, but in essence it is not complicated. That is, short sellers are bearish on the stock index or a certain stock and believe that it will fall in the future, so they buy it at the current time, sell it, and then sell it when the stock index or stock falls. When the psychological expectation is reached, buy back the shares sold earlier at a low price, pay off the securities, and earn the difference.

Looking at this method, short sellers will buy stocks and sell them. When the selling volume is too large, it will inevitably cause turbulence in the target stock market.

And this guy has a billion dollars in capital!
He also wants to borrow ten times leverage!
Tens of billions of funds, even if spread across 38 stocks, will not hurt anyone if it is hit?What I fear most is the chain reaction.

What is the eternal investment mentality in the market?
Chasing ups and downs!
"I'm serious." Li Jiankun looked serious, "Brother Charlie doesn't seem to be very professional in securities investment."

Normally speaking, securities companies should be very emotional. You don’t care whether investors are long or short. Commissions are still paid, interest is paid, and margins are paid. Whether they lose or make money, it has nothing to do with you.

Charlie said in his heart that no matter how unprofessional I am, I am still a hundred times better than you, an idiot!
What's going on right now?Big bull market!
Even uncles and aunts who don’t understand stocks at all know how to make money by buying stocks following the trend.Are you going to be short selling at this time?
And Charlie noticed that apart from the Chinese-owned Hongkang Group, the other 37 British-owned companies were all established and strong companies!After many years of ups and downs, you can succeed in short selling?
Neuropathy!
"Forget it." Li Jiankun put down his legs, patted his butt and stood up, "Since Brother Charlie has no intention and is not forcing it, don't blame me for not keeping my promise, right? I will look for cooperation with other securities companies. I heard that Swire Bank's securities business itself is not big. , Taikoo is my first choice, I do it entirely for your sake.”

Lawyer Zhou stood up.

Charlie was stunned for a few seconds, then stood up immediately, reaching out to stop the two of them, "No, no, no, no, who said I'm not interested? I do, absolutely!"

Money is not a bastard.

Although I am very unhappy that this guy is shorting British capital on a large scale, they are not the ones doing the shorting.

Li Jiankun and Lawyer Zhou sat down again.

Charlie's thoughts changed instantly, and he suddenly realized, holy shit!This is a fool throwing money away. How can short selling be successful?It seems that I can hold a basket to catch it!

"Brother Li, please sit down for a moment. Your investment plan requires ten times leverage. The capital is too large! To be honest, I can't make the decision. I'll go ask for instructions and I'll get back right away."

Charlie picked up Li Jiankun's investment plan, walked to the door, and called Lydia in, "Take care of you two."

After that, he rushed upstairs.

Li Jiankun looked at the door with a smile, "Beautiful."

Lydia's eyes were bright and she licked her lips, "Thank you. Mr. Li, what do you want today?"

Li Jiankun: "..."

Who the hell said that about you?

No doubt, Charlie took the bait.

This is a serial plan. It is true to short 37 old British-owned companies and Hongkang Group. It is also true to light the fuse of the bomb that was buried for Swire Group earlier.

Not contradictory.

Kill two birds with one stone.

As he said, Swire Bank's securities market is not big, far less than that of Goldman Sachs' securities companies. They obviously do not have 38 companies with stocks worth more than [-] billion Hong Kong dollars, so they now face two choices.

One is a safe flow, borrowing from other securities firms or major bookmakers.

The interest generated by borrowing the bonds will of course be charged to the short seller.In this way, whether Li Jiankun makes a profit or a loss in the end has no impact on Swire Bank.The latter earn commission anyway.

The other is risk flow. Swire Bank uses its own money to purchase the stocks it needs from the market.

In this case, it was equivalent to a bet between Swire Bank and him.

His short-selling plan failed, and Swire Bank not only earned commissions, but also pocketed his principal.

On the other hand, if he succeeds in short selling, Swire Bank will bear his profits.

Now it depends on what the bank executives say, whether he has the courage and whether he wants to earn the billion Hong Kong dollars he has.

As for the companies he shorted, if tens of billions of dollars are spent on them, it will inevitably cause a chain reaction in the market. For each one of them, the stock price will fall.

You know, Soros shorted the British Empire in 1992, but only used 60 billion pounds.

These 38 companies may be able to save the market, but it is of no use.Sahar's visit to China next month will be a "blockbuster", while the 84 joint statement was a "nuclear bomb."

The market will continue to decline.

Li Jiankun's move is equivalent to giving these 38 households an oil bath before the fire comes.

Then, bide your time.

This important period of history cannot be changed. The financial crisis is bound to come, and the Hong Kong dollar will plummet to its lowest level in history; the Hong Kong stock market is bound to be swept by the storm.

He is not in a hurry. As long as the margin is sufficient and the position remains open, theoretically, there is no time limit for short selling.

(End of this chapter)