Future Stamps and Coins Diary

Chapter 4: Did you sell it too?

"Bet?" As a professional gambler, Yang Yuechao had never been able to resist this. He tilted his head and looked at Lu Feng, smiling, "What's there for me to bet with you?"

"Nothing. I'm just betting on whether the goods I'm going to buy now will end up in my own hands as you said."

"Wow, a young man who hasn't even grown all his hair yet is so confident. Come on, let me play with you. Tell me, how do you bet?" Yang Yuechao suddenly became excited and stood up.

"It's very simple. Within half a month, if the market price of the eight-cent coin set goes up, you give me a credit line without mortgage. If the price remains unchanged, then I will ask General Manager Lu to directly transfer my salary for this month to your card, as if it were a dinner treat for you!" Lu Feng said loudly.

"Half a month?"

"Yes, half a month!"

"How much is your monthly salary?"

"How much credit line do you want?"

Lu Feng stretched out a hand.

"Fifty thousand? No problem!" Yang Yuechao felt that this kid must have had a brain short circuit.

Next to them, Lu Youxin watched the two of them arguing with each other, but instead of trying to stop them, he added fuel to the fire and said, "How about I take part in it, too?"

"Mr. Lu, how do we bet?" Lu Feng asked.

Lu Youxin obviously had an idea in mind, and said with a smile: "If you win, I can guarantee you up to 500,000 yuan, not to mention 50,000 yuan, but if you lose..."

He paused and said, "Your probation period will be extended for another year!"

It turns out that you still remembered that my probation period was over early!
Lu Feng was unhappy, but on the surface he pretended to be in an awkward situation.

"This... is a bit too much."

"Why, you can't afford to play?" Lu Youxin said with a smile. He had already figured it out in his mind that Lu Feng would not have a chance to win, let alone half a month, even in a year.

A guarantee limit of 500,000 is like a huge pie in the sky. Even if he gave it, Lu Feng wouldn't dare to take it, or he wouldn't be able to take it.

As for the extra year of probation, he calculated that he could save at least 10,000 yuan.

Rounded off, it’s approximately equal to one hundred million!

Lu Feng frowned, took a few deep breaths, and finally gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Okay, words are not enough, let's write it down as evidence!"

Lu and Yang smiled at each other; this was exactly the effect they wanted.

Soon, the three of them drafted the terms of the bet, signed their names on it, and made three copies.

Holding the copy, Yang Yuechao was already grinning like a pig.

"Old Lu, you have to treat me to a foot wash tonight."

"No big deal. Let's go with W!" Lu Youxin smiled unreservedly.

Lu Tong had already finished counting the products, handed the remaining 20,000 yuan to the old man, shook his hand and said, "Happy cooperation, and I wish you a happy family reunion."

The old man, however, saw the bet between the three of them and lowered his voice, worriedly saying, "Young man, these two are clearly going to rip you off."

"It's okay, uncle." Lu Tong sent the man out of the market. After returning, he quickly went to the market to find a one-month custody service and paid a few dozen yuan in custody fees. When he got the key to the safe, there was only more than 200 yuan left in his pocket that was in the canvas bag.

Fortunately, there is still some balance in the Yangcheng Card, so it should be OK if I can hold on.

Reaching out and gently stroking the diary in the canvas bag, Lu Feng looked at Yang and Lu who were chatting enthusiastically and let out a long sigh.

……

There are many factors that affect the market price of stamps and coins, but the most important ones are actually three: policy influence, the strength of traders and market demand.

Among them, policy impact always comes first.

The reason is simple, it is often sudden and subversive. In any field, there are some people with great powers, especially in the stamp and coin market.

These people can often obtain reliable information from various channels before the policy is announced, so they can make arrangements one step ahead of others.

Of course, many times these people overlap highly with the traders in the second factor.

Just after Lu Tong collected the eight consecutive cents and ate Shaxian soup wontons for two consecutive days, he noticed something unusual in the market.

On September 9, three days before the central bank’s announcement, a group of people he had never seen before appeared in the market. They swept up the vast majority of the eight-digit cent coins at lightning speed.

It was not until the afternoon of that day, when the market gate closed, that the merchants who were walking out together chatted and finally realized the problem.

"Today, I don't know what happened, but I sold those dozens of eight-piece sets of cent coins I had on hand at a higher price!" a business owner revealed happily.

"You sold it too?" another merchant frowned.

The next moment, several people nearby came over.

These experienced bosses simply exchanged glances and quickly sensed something unusual.

"How much did you sell it for?"

"twenty five!"

"What about you?"

"twenty-three."

"I sold it for 20, fuck it!"

“How much did you sell?”

"At this price, I've been buying it for five years. Can I keep one?"

Four or five bosses who had played the game of Eight-Coin Connect together checked their games and soon found that they couldn’t even get 10 books together!
Since the millennium, due to price fluctuations, as well as recycling and destruction, the actual number of cent coins in existence, which should have been 20, may be less than half, not to mention the loss and consumption over the years.

In other words, there are not many left on the market.

Scarcity makes things valuable, and almost all practitioners in this industry know that once a "buying spree" occurs, it means that someone is behind the scenes and it is coming to an end.

"Tomorrow we'll look around the market again and ask about the situation?"

"Tomorrow? By the time you get up, the flowers will be cold. Make a phone call! Check online to see if anyone has snapped up the post you posted before."

Once reminded, the five people took out their cell phones at almost the fastest speed.

After just over ten minutes, the five people's thighs were all sworn red.

"Fuck! Even Yichen's post from a week ago has been confirmed."

(Note: Yichen.com was the largest and most authoritative online trading site for stamps, coins and cards at the time, and existed in the form of a forum. Confirmation refers to one party of the buyer or seller posting the word "confirm" after the other party's post, indicating the confirmation of the transaction intention and the transaction is completed. Due to the particularity of the industry and the limitations of the circle, this method is still applicable today, and it is very abiding by the contract.)
In the circle, everyone actually knows who is playing this type of game.

Just now, several people made a lot of phone calls in succession, and the same information they received was that the goods that had been in their hands for five or six years were sold in the past few days.

And it’s almost sold out!

"There must be some fish that have slipped through the net in the market. Let's keep quiet and do a secret search tomorrow."

Several bosses who realized that they had sold out quickly responded.

If you hold on to a certain variety for five or six years and then sell it at a low price on the eve of its take-off, not to mention the price difference in between, this experience alone is a pure stain and a market joke.

This is not allowed.

What's more, once a certain type of product is bought up, the increase is often astonishing.

(End of this chapter)