Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

You need to be calm when facing big things.

The more intense the battle between long and short crude oil prices became, the more patient Li Zehua became. He simply did not even go to the company, saying, "We must block the $120 barrier at all costs."

No matter what means the US capital uses, we must block it! As long as we hold on, we can promote a positive change in the overall situation. Wall Street will push the whole world to our side and win without fighting! "

When he was accompanying Shen Wanyi, Shen Wanqing and Chen Xiaomin to visit the Jiangnan gardens around the Magic City.

Micropayment, WeChat Technology, and Douyin Interactive Entertainment have launched 0.01 barrel crude oil trading business, opening up investment channels for hundreds of millions of ordinary investors, with a three-month lock-up period for large amounts of funds.

That is, the starting point is 50 US dollars, and no transaction commission or management fee is charged. There is a full tiered profit sharing system, with a 12-15% profit sharing for profits within 50%, and a 200-22% profit sharing for profits between 25-%.

For the part exceeding 200%, a uniform charge of 50% or more will be made.

For small amounts of funds below US$10, there is no redemption mechanism, and the funds can be deposited and withdrawn at any time (within minutes).

The fund uses the latest transaction price of US$120 in local time in the United States as its benchmark price and opens at the same time, benefiting from professional judgment and partial profits from the previous period of US$135.

(Part of the initial earnings from the three companies' investment in energy futures was allocated to public funds to attract individuals for initial investment.)
At the very beginning, it attracted countless investors to deposit funds, and then other people who heard the news rushed in waving their money and wanted to buy. Most of them were individuals who were discouraged by the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Stock Exchange due to high margin requirements.

Most of them agree with the short-selling capital groups such as Qingyun Group that oil prices will continue to plummet in the future. However, the primary trading market controlled by US capital no longer accepts ordinary people who do not have the ability to deliver.

They have no choice but to compromise. Now there are better channels to help accommodate small funds. Of course, they are eager to make a fortune. Although the profit share ratio is higher, it is better than having no opportunity to make money.

The Qingyun Group does not mind the lack of funds of small and medium-sized investors (at the same time, other financial investment banks and funds have very strict audits of individual investors, and the most important one is that they must have sufficient funds).

How could investors dislike Qingyun’s high commission, especially since they only charge for profits.

The only thing I am not satisfied with is the lock-up period of three months for deposits above $10,000, or a loss of half of the amount before redemption, but this is stipulated in the contract document.

Qingyun wants to involve enough people to make Wall Street afraid to act rashly. If it dares to break the contract, the vital interests of hundreds of millions of people around the world will be damaged. Let's see who will suffer then.

Everyone even hopes that Wall Street will turn off the power to the exchange, so that everyone will lose all their money. I'm sorry, who will be the target of the criticism?

In the past, people had no choice and were influenced by public propaganda for a long time, which made them yearn for America. But once their own interests suffered great losses, they didn't even need competitors to smear them.

Angry investors will spontaneously unite and launch a boycott of American products. With the Qingyun Group making a slight move in the middle, American capital will be guaranteed to suffer a heavy blow on a global scale.

These are far from the national credits that can be bought with hundreds of billions of dollars, so regardless of victory or defeat, Qingyun Group can sit back and enjoy the upper hand.

When American capital pulls the power switch or plays dirty tricks, we record it all and then use the convenience of mobile Internet to transmit it to every corner of the world.

If it is a fair trade, facing the double blow of plummeting transportation resources and market demand, Wall Street will not be able to raise oil prices even if it has ten times more funds on hand, because the oil-producing countries will be the first to collapse.

Shale oil companies in the United States that are controlled by traditional American capital cannot withstand the tremendous pressure. For example, William, a member of the family of the actual controller behind Bank of America, went directly to Shanghai to seek cooperation.

Upon learning that Li was visiting a Jiangnan garden with his confidante, he followed him all the way to Gusu, and finally met the Li he had been looking for in a well-known town.

"You guys go shopping first." After comforting Shen Wanqing, who was pouting and unhappy, Li Zehua and William found a secluded place to sit down.

"Mr. Li, we need your help!" William said frankly, "It is inevitable that we will cut production when the price of crude oil is at its highest. We can't help it because Wall Street has a louder voice.

The authoritative figures in the Zhupai faction made it known through different channels that if we refused, the support funds and policies allocated by Guohuishan to the shale oil project would be greatly reduced.

Without the huge subsidies, we will die faster!"

Traditional American capital is now in a very embarrassing situation. The core voice is not in their hands. In order to stabilize high oil prices, Wall Street orders them to cooperate in production cuts.

By reducing supply, the market supply and demand relationship is stimulated in disguise, thereby forcing crude oil consuming countries to make compromises. As long as Wall Street gets things done, all oil-producing countries will obey.

It is not just about winning the energy futures war; it means that all consumer countries will have to be obedient and follow the orders of US capital.

Otherwise, an energy embargo at any time can cause the prices of raw materials in industrial countries to soar, and they will lose their international competitiveness.

However, the US dollar can become the settlement currency for major commodities in the world, and mold has successfully settled in every key corner of the world through centuries of accumulation. However, American capital cannot directly control all key resources.

Being priced in US dollars and being directly controlled by US capital are two completely different things. No matter how powerful Wall Street is or how strong SquidCapital is, it is impossible to control local groups scattered around the world from the source.

At best, when everyone wants to participate in international trade, they need channels and platforms controlled by American capital to obtain benefits more conveniently, and let them act as a third-party guarantee platform to protect their own interests.

It's not that Wall Street is unaware of its own positioning, but it has been deliberately blurring or simply confusing the concept. Through day-to-day control of public opinion, it has tried to create the fact that American capital is unprecedentedly powerful and invincible.

However, this kind of superficial publicity can deceive oneself but not others. Not to mention the distant future, even if Oumeng and Dongda join forces, they are far more powerful than American capital.

If the East Asian monsters get together, they can be more powerful than American capital. The key is that the cost of challenging and defeating it and replacing it is too high and the risk is too great, so no one has the determination to go all out for the time being.

They also cannot afford the consequences of both sides suffering losses and perish together, so they just accept this set of rules.

Wall Street has calculated that large regional economies dare not turn against each other easily, so it supports one rival after another around the large economies, trying to use one large economy to keep an eye on another rival.

Then, by targeting small and defenseless economies, they create a myth of their own invincibility, thereby reducing the cost of their actual rule.

But this time things went wrong. Almost all energy-consuming countries were driven crazy by the long-term high oil prices. Ou Meng stepped forward and joined forces with a number of powerful economies such as Dongdajiaobenji and Baixiang.

Everyone coordinated their conflicts, put aside their disputes, and united together as never before to launch a counterattack against American capital. It can be said that this was an inevitable disaster caused by Wall Street's excessive greed.

Whether it is the European debt crisis or the high energy futures prices, they are all tricks that American capital has come up with to make up for the losses caused by the 08 financial crisis.

The former dealt a heavy blow to the European economy, causing a large amount of global hot money to flow out of Europe's real economy and manufacturing and flow back to the United States. However, the profit-seeking nature of capital determines that it will go wherever there is money to be made.

Dongda and Southeast Asia construction have become the biggest beneficiaries of this round of capital outflow. More than one trillion unleveraged funds have flowed into Dongda, injecting necessary funds and technical support for its industrial upgrading.

In turn, these big capitals with funds provide consumer markets for Dongda's manufacturing industry. Otherwise, if they invest money to update equipment and technology, how can they realize the profits if there is no sufficient consumer market?

Wall Street is plotting bankruptcy, which gives it the motivation to raise energy prices at all costs. That is, through high oil prices, it can increase the production costs of industrial manufacturing countries and bring excess profits back to the United States.

This can be seen from the fact that the United States has relaxed restrictions on big cats, allowing big cats and big players, and Venezuelan funds to invest in the U.S. high-tech industrial chain.

Oil-producing countries earn excess profits through high oil prices, and then transfer them to the American market in the form of protection fees, but Wall Street's plan went awry.

The country suffered huge losses in the battle to defend the pound and the war on raw materials and agricultural product futures, and was forced to make up for the losses from funds of energy exporting countries.

This brought about a series of other changes, such as the need to extend the time for long energy futures due to heavy losses, causing consumer countries that had previously been able to tolerate it to collectively go crazy.

The losses suffered by everyone exceeded their psychological expectations, so they naturally would not sit idly by and wait for death. So they launched a counterattack against American capital. When the combined forces of all parties reached a certain scale.

Wall Street is confused, they haven't gotten off the bus yet!
Hundreds of billions of dollars of capital are still firmly locked up in the long side of energy futures. If the short-selling economies are allowed to succeed, it will be equivalent to Wall Street for every factory in the world. Every owner of a fuel vehicle will pay for the extra costs during this period, not only for nothing, but also for a large sum of money.

Who can bear this?

However, two fists cannot beat four hands. No matter how powerful the American capital is, it is impossible to go to war with the whole world at the same time. So we should learn from the old lady who eats persimmons and pick the soft ones first.

Big Cat Investment Fund bought shares of hundreds of technology companies in the United States in one go. The money has been paid and received, and it is happily dreaming of a great dream together with America.

Little did they know that the cooking faction has already begun preparing to formulate a bill to restrict competition in the country, investment in U.S. stocks, U.S. bonds and important companies. To put it bluntly, they take money but do not do the job, and give the money but do not give the goods.

The big cats are doomed to suffer heavy losses.

As for the even less powerful big players, such as the sovereign investment funds of Venezuela and Algeria, Wall Street is too lazy to even put on an act.

Directly let this part of funds replace Wall Street's long positions in energy futures. Although it cannot be a perfect replacement, it is almost the same and at least releases half of Wall Street's liquidity.

In short, the crude oil futures prices are destined to plummet, and the biggest losses will definitely be suffered by oil-producing countries other than the United States. Friends, aren’t they sold out at the critical moment?

"Big investors and big cats were cheated, but we turned a blind eye and even helped them." William was furious, "But we at Angsa Capital are definitely not small players.

Wall Street makes such casual decisions, it simply doesn't take us into consideration at all!

Therefore, energy, technology and mining manufacturing groups including Bank of America decided to unite and say no to Squid Capital!

Please rest assured that without our orders, we will never do anything unrestrained on the front line, especially in the Persian region. Without the consent of the East University, we will not move a single soldier!"

"Thank you, but is there anything I can do?" Li Zehua smiled, obviously disdaining such verbal promises, but on the surface he had to express his position, "As long as it does not exceed the capabilities of Qingyun Group.

In principle, there is no problem. You know, I still have some friends in Yanjing who can help me."

"That's great." William said with a smile, "We need you to make some concessions, such as opening up a little in the energy futures competition to allow traditional US capital to close its positions and get out."

"That's impossible." Li Zehua shook his head instantly, "Let's not talk about whether I can do it alone. Even if I can, I can't risk the fate of the group on an unknown promise.

If you are sincere, you can invest a sum of money to hedge the risk, and we can also compensate for the losses caused by production cuts from other sources.

Please don’t talk about the concessions in the futures market!”

I sneered in my heart, this bunch of people are famous for being wishful thinking. Even if they don't have any cards in their hands, they still act like they are giving them alms.

They even have the nerve to ask the short-selling capital led by Qingyun Group to give up resistance and let American capital win directly. If they really agree, then there is no point in fighting and they should just admit defeat.

"That's such a pity." William didn't care that he couldn't cheat. It wouldn't hurt to try anyway. What if he succeeded? "In that case, we also have requirements.

Because we have completely broken off relations with Wall Street, we have to borrow your channels to hedge risks, but such a large amount of funds requires you to advance the payment.

And the maximum handling fee is 0.5%. "

"Mr. William, are you kidding?" Li Zehua stood up and walked away without hesitation. "I think you can calm down a bit before we talk."

After saying that, he didn't give me a chance and just ran away.

"Damn it, you really treat me as a sucker. You have no sincerity at all. What's the point of chatting?" Li Zehua was so angry that he wanted to hit someone, but he didn't give the other party a chance and returned to the top manor arranged by the garden area.

Take a few close female friends with you and run away.

When William heard the news and came looking for them, there was no trace of them.

"You shouldn't just keep asking for things." Hunter, the actual controller of the Texas consortium who had been following William and had not spoken a word, was somewhat dissatisfied. As the big boss who controlled Texas Instruments and Houston Aerospace behind the scenes, his words carried a lot of weight.

"But if we don't do this, our interests will not be protected." William frowned, "You should understand that this is our last chance to regain energy hegemony. If we allow Wall Street to fail in the futures war,

Our days will not be easy either. By then, the power controlled by Zupai will inevitably conduct strict internal inspections, and many companies, including Texas Instruments and Texas Energy, will lose more shares of the domestic market. "

"But we can still survive that way." Hunter's idea was completely different from his. "Cooperating with Wall Street is really courting death, even if we win this futures war.

Traditional American capital will also be reduced to a second-rate group because it has exhausted its last bit of strength, and we will never be able to take back the initiative from the cooking party.

See what the Australian bull in Washington said about us? We are a loose group and pose no threat.

Perhaps after losing the false (homonym) family, the peace faction can no longer find a leader who can lead everyone to victory, because we always miss opportunities in compromise. "

At this point, he stared at William and said word by word: "Give up those unrealistic fantasies, we must fully realize a reality!
Even if we lose this round of futures war, the United States will not be able to lose the dollar and financial hegemony, because our core strength is still there as long as the dollar continues to be the international settlement currency.

Traditional American capital has the potential to regain control of energy!"

This statement is very explicit. The loss of American capital does not mean that traditional American capital will lose miserably as well.

Because they can use their opponents' channels to hedge risks and take the opportunity to make a fortune.

"But Wall Street will not let us succeed so easily. The farmers and workers surrounding the mining base are not blind. If we want to ship goods on a large scale, we must go through the financial channels of Wall Street."

As the actual controller of Bank of America, William is very clear about the rules of this game. Traditional American capital has advantages in manufacturing, high-tech, energy, food, mining and other businesses.

They even hold controlling stakes in several companies including KFC, Coca-Cola, Texas Instruments, and the Seven Sisters of Oil, but they want to cash out quickly and play the capital appreciation game.

We cannot do without the help of Wall Street. “Once they notice our little moves, the consequences will be disastrous.”

"Then you can just wait to be trampled under their feet for the rest of your life." Hunter said disdainfully, "Anyway, we have already started looking for a strong group across the United States that can represent traditional American capital.

The position in Washington cannot be occupied by their people forever. We must find a way to regain the initiative, and this energy futures war is the best opportunity!

Deal a severe blow to the Squid Capital Group, and make them, who are eager to recover, offend more people. This way, countless allies will come to support the peace faction.

Only in this way can we become great again!"

William was speechless, because he was also moved. No matter how glorious his career was, he was only fit to eat the leftovers left by Wall Street.

And when you perform on stage, no matter how badly you do, you can only eat the most delicious cake!
"Okay, I promise, when we meet again, I will try to convince him with sincerity."

In the face of William's compromise, Hunter nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at the surrounding environment, "Gusu is developing too fast. What kind of magic is this land filled with that makes them great again in just a dozen years?"

Not to mention that he doesn't understand, most Americans don't understand either, why is it that the University of Tokyo must be the one that benefits the most and rises the most in the process of globalization? (End of this chapter)