We are all reborn, who wants to be the richest man?

Chapter 668 The Absent-Minded Trader
16/F, Exchange Square , Central.

Early in the morning, employees were coming in and out of the elevator, all of them were employees from various companies on the 16th floor.

The entire 16th floor is divided into two parts, belonging to two companies, both of which are financial institutions.

This is normal in the Exchange Square. There are three buildings in total and the rentable area is limited. However, branches of well-known large companies such as banks, funds and insurance companies from all over the world all want to flock in.

There is no way. Unlike the big banks on Wall Street, there are only a few influential Western financial institutions in Hong Kong Island, the Asian financial center, or in Asia.

If you want Southeast Asian investors to put their money with you, you need to be famous.

As for how to increase your fame, renting an office space in the trading square as your office location is definitely the most obvious way.

After all, this place is called the Wall Street of the East, and the name gives people a natural sense of credibility.

The elevator door on the 16th floor opened again, and a foreign man came out and nodded to the receptionist to greet him.

"Good morning, boss."

Unfortunately, the greeting from the pretty female staff at the front desk was not responded to, and the man walked into the company with a heavy face.

"Kelly, don't you think the boss has been acting abnormal lately?"

"what happened?"

"Nick used to be full of energy and friendly every day, but haven't you noticed that he is always absent-minded when you talk to him recently?

You saw it when I greeted him just now, but it was as if he didn't hear anything at all."

"Really?" Another receptionist thought hard and said, "It seems to be the case. That's how I greeted him yesterday."

Then the woman sighed and said, “Maybe he’s worried about his performance.

You know, he is the profit star of our bank. The profit of our Hong Kong Island branch accounts for more than one-tenth of that of our Bahrain Bank."

"is that so?".

Kelly didn't know whether his colleague's guess was correct, but he always felt that something bad was going to happen.

On the other side, on the way to his office, people kept greeting Nick, but if you looked closely, there was always something intriguing in their eyes.

After Nick walked into the office and closed the door, a female employee walked up to a fat white man.

"Shanks, what's wrong with the boss lately? He always seems absent-minded."

"Really? Why didn't I feel it?"

The female employee rolled her eyes and angrily threw the lunch box in the other person's hand into the trash can.

"You are such a heartless guy. It's a pity that the boss helped you so much in the beginning."

"My shrimp dumplings." Looking at the food thrown away in the trash can, the fat man, who was originally heartbroken, was stunned when he heard the female employee's words.

Nick's help to Shanks was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that he saved his life.

Two years ago, Shanks was too fat and the functions of some parts of his body were seriously reduced. It was okay for him not to do some things, but his wife in her thirties at home couldn't stand it.

At first he just taunted Shanks, but later he would lose his temper over trivial matters.

In response to this, Shanks said that you can curse as much as you want, he was in the wrong in the first place, and it won’t hurt anyway.

But as time went on, Shanks' wife suddenly stopped being nice, which made Shanks think that she had accepted the current situation.

But gradually Shanks realized that there was no problem, because his wife always looked radiant after going out shopping with friends.

All men understand this state: the body looks tired but the spirit is full, and it is obvious at one glance that the person has been well nourished.

So Shanks followed his wife when she was out one day. When he saw her hugging a strong man intimately and having her buttocks kneaded by the man's big hands, he finally couldn't bear it anymore.

This is what a man is. He can choose not to use it himself, but he must never use it on others.

Of course, if you use someone else's, that's another matter. Shanks rushed forward, and although the opponent was strong, he couldn't stand Shanks's flesh.

Just like that, after venting his anger, Shanks divorced his wife.

After his divorce, Shanks fell into the abyss of self-exile, indulging in the illusory comfort of alcohol day after day. His life became dull and life seemed to be wandering in the fog every day, having lost the color and direction of the past and was in a daze.

This is fine in life, but it also applies to work.

In one transaction, a client's order to sell 100 contracts was executed as a buy of 100 contracts, and this operation directly caused a loss of up to two million pounds.

With such a huge loss, if it is reported to the head office, not only will Shanks be prosecuted, but the entire Hong Kong Island branch will also be in trouble.

After Nick knew about this, he did not choose to report it, but wanted to make up for the loss before the end of the month.

This was done not only for Shanks and the entire team of the Hong Kong Island branch, but most importantly for himself.

He did it, and not only made up for the loss of two million pounds but also made a huge profit.

Previously, Barings Bank adopted an arbitrage strategy in Hong Kong Island. Simply put, it was shorting in Tokyo and going long in Hong Kong Island, earning the difference by buying and selling, but not bearing the risk of rising and falling stock markets.

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However, arbitrage opportunities are limited, and the profits are small. For the financial industry, it is hard-earned money. It is impossible to make up for the deficit of 2 million pounds by arbitrage.

So the bold Nick used the straddle option strategy, which was actually a gamble.

If you sell options, whether it is a put option or a call option, you can earn an option fee.

So Nick sold both the put and call options of Nikkei 225 at the same time. Under this strategy, if the stock market is stable, the option fee will be free money.

However, if the stock market fluctuates sharply, whether up or down, Nick will suffer heavy losses.

Fortunately, Nick was lucky, and the Nikkei 225 was in a stable period during this period, which allowed Nick to save the fate of everyone and also helped Shanks and himself.

"Okay, I admit that I didn't care enough about the boss."

The female employee glared at him, as if to say, "You still have some conscience."

"Take your breakfast in and give it to the boss later, and ask him indirectly what's going on."

The fat man didn't waste any time. He picked up a lunch box from the plastic bag on the desk and went straight to Nick's office.

Without knocking, the fat man pushed the door open with a festive look on his face.

"Boss, you haven't had breakfast yet, right? I have shrimp dumplings here."

"Shanks, thank you, I've eaten."

Seeing the other person standing in front of the desk with his eyes fixed on him, Nick asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Is there anything else?"

"No, Chloe just said you looked depressed lately, so I wanted to see if you needed any help."

"Oh? Thank you for your concern." Nick smiled. "Things at home will be resolved soon."

"Huh." Shanks was relieved. "You scared me, so I said the boss is fine."

As he said that, Shanks opened the lunch box in his hand, took out a shrimp dumpling and threw it into his mouth, "It's nothing, I'll go out to work first."

"Go ahead, and by the way, tell the people outside not to worry about me."

Shanks left, the door closed again, and Nick's expression changed from relaxed to nervous.

"Even they can see that I'm not in good shape?"

After taking a look at the computer screen, Nick bit his lower lip as if he had made some decision.

"There's no other choice but to try our best."

(End of this chapter)