America's Road to Wealth

There is a country that borders the Strait of Malacca, with an area of ​​just over 700 square kilometers, and its urban infrastructure ranks first in the world.

It is called Singapore by many people, formerly known as Sin Chew or Star Island, also known as the Lion City, in Southeast Asia.

It's located 85 miles north of the equator, and its tropical climate means it has beach days year-round, although beware of the winter monsoon season.

This is despite its proximity to world-class beach destinations such as Thailand and Indonesia.

But Singapore's own beach coast is sometimes overlooked.

16 kilometers away from the city, Siloso Beach is known as the most beautiful beach in Singapore and is full of bars and restaurants.

On weekdays, Siloso Beach is very lively from morning to night, and it can be said to be crowded with many tourists.

But these days, there is not a single customer on Siloso Beach, and even the bars and restaurants are closed.

Because the Singaporean authorities claimed that there was something wrong with the beach at Siloso Beach and the authorities needed to carry out repairs, so it was closed for a few days.

Reopening time to be determined.

However, at this moment, on Siloso Beach, which was supposed to be closed, in a seaside manor among coconut trees.

Abel was wearing beach shorts and sunglasses, lying on a lounge chair, blowing the sea breeze under the sunset, listening to the rustling of the leaves of the dense coconut palms, looking at the blue sea, the soaring eagles, and the beautiful scenery. He felt better.

Today is April Fool’s Day, April 1st.

A few days have passed since he left Hong Kong Island and came to Singapore.

During a few days in Hong Kong Island. Although the Chinese culture on Hong Kong Island is somewhat unauthentic and mixed with a lot of Westernized impurities.

But he still experienced a trace of Chinese elements that are difficult to experience in the United States, even in Chinatown.

This could barely comfort the small part of homesickness that was about to stir in his soul.

So after the dinner at 26 Garden Road, he left Hong Kong Island the next day.

During this period, we passed through Thailand, stayed in Siam for two days, and then arrived in Singapore.

In Singapore, Abel originally planned to stay for a day or two at most.

Because for him, this small place is really unattractive.

It wants nothing, except a Strait of Malacca and a decent-sized stock market.

In other respects, it is difficult to describe it with a lack of resources.

A place where even fresh water is provided by Malaysia and most of the electricity comes from there.

There's really nothing to covet except that its strategic position is very good.

And it is very similar to Hanguo and Neon. There are US military bases stationed there, and the key points are in the hands of the United States.

Generally, in a place like this, if the masters from the United States come, they will be the masters from Singapore...

No, it was the night Abel arrived in Singapore.

I made a special trip to visit him.

At that time, Abel happened to be receiving two Americans working in Singapore.

These two men were named Benjamin de Seural and Ellis Parker Butler.

The man in front is the American envoy to Singapore.

Ellis Parker Butler is the current Commander-in-Chief of the US 7th Fleet and one of the main persons in charge of Zhangyi Base.

When Leader Li saw these two people at Abel's place, he was naturally surprised and taken for granted.

Because Ambassador Benjamin de Seural was the American ambassador to Poland who was re-appointed after Bush moved into the white house.

As for Ellis Parker Butler, he's a Texan.

These two people would visit Abel who was passing by. Leader Li thought it was really easy to understand.

That night, everyone had a great time.

But at Abel's place, they knew that Abel was really just passing by and they were not prepared to show up in public. He would be leaving in a few days.

Leader Li couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It's fine that he wasn't here to cause trouble.

So the authorities chose to open the door to Albert in all aspects.

So much so that Siloso Beach, a famous tourist attraction in Singapore, is one of the favorite places for foreigners to go.

It was temporarily closed for a few days because of someone's arrival, and the closure time is to be determined.

Whenever someone wants to leave, be open.

And we do this just to let someone experience the pure beauty of Singapore.

We basked in the sun for a while and enjoyed the sea breeze.

As the sun set, Abel returned to the villa. After taking a shower, he came to a large room in the manor.

I saw dozens of computers arranged in the room, and dozens of European and American people with blond hair and blue eyes were busy sitting in front of each computer.

David Mellon, the president of Smith Financial Group and CEO of Smith Capital, who was supposed to be in charge of the overall situation in New York, was walking through the crowd in the room.

When the boss came in, the other staff turned a blind eye and continued their work.

David Mellon, who was originally staring at a monitor, stood up and came to Abel.

"Oh, Your Majesty, you came just in time."

The heir to the New York Mellon family, his eyes were slightly red, his hair was a little messy, but his energy was very high.

"Just like you said, those people...those corrupt enemies, they chose to do long!"

David said loudly.

More than a year ago, Abel defeated the cooperation of several major New York investment banks head-on.

David, who participated in the whole process, and the older employees of Smith Capital, worshiped Abel a little crazily.

Calling Abel their king engaged in feudal idolatry in the company.

This kind of worship has become the characteristic corporate culture of Smith Capital.

Abel was opposed to it at first, but David and the others were convinced.

They said that any long-established and powerful investment bank or financial company on Wall Street.

Almost all of them have their own unique culture.

For example, on a certain day every year, everyone collectively calls for call girls, and the company will reimburse them...

In some cases, the third week and third day of every month is a day for group fitness for the whole company...

In some cases, on a certain day of a certain month, all employees change into women's clothing; in some cases, on a certain day, they bring food to the company to share, etc.

In short, each has its own characteristics. David felt that the existence of Smith Capital itself was completely based on Abel.

To Smith Capital, Abel was like a wise king in ancient times.

In ancient Europe, the strength of a country often depended on its wise king.

Then Smith Capital should respect Abel like a wise king.

Coupled with a little bit of flattery, this culture eventually formed.

Now after Smith Capital merges with other Texas financial companies, it has evolved into Smith Financial Group.

David and other Smithians are trying to expand this corporate culture that originally belonged to Smith Capital to the culture of the entire financial group.

On the Texas side, there is naturally some resistance to this.

They admired Abel, but they had never seen Abel's operation.

It’s not like Smith Capital, which relied on Abel to start its business.

The two sides are currently wrestling.

And Abel...of course he supported David and the others.

Not to mention that this is his direct descendant.

Just the feeling of being admired can easily become addictive.

What's more, both Abel himself and the think tanks of Smith Think Tank believe that this corporate culture will help strengthen Abel's influence in Smith Financial Group.

If it can spread, it can even affect the entire Texas consortium.

It feels good, and it can strengthen control and influence. How could Abel not support it?

"Let me see……"

After listening to David's words, Abel walked to several big screens.

The upper half of these large screens display real-time global economic news and political news.

The other half displays the prices of various foreign exchange and futures markets around the world.

There's a reason why Abel isn't in a rush to leave Singapore, which he doesn't like very much these days.

On the day he left Hong Kong Island, his talent provided an early warning of something.

Someone, a very powerful person or force, was eyeing him.

This caused Abel to change his itinerary.

He originally wanted to arrive in Singapore directly.

But because of this warning, he went to Thailand to stay for two days.

While staying in Thailand, David in New York received orders from Abel.

David then led a group of Smith Capital's earliest operator elites to leave New York and arrived in Singapore ahead of Abel.

Abel asked them to temporarily build a financial safe house here in Singapore.

That's why these people in front of me and David are here.

Since the beginning of last month.

Abel asked Smith Capital to slowly establish Japanese yen position contracts in the foreign exchange market, as well as spot gold futures contracts.

It started when Abel arrived in Singapore a few days ago.

Under his orders, traders officially began to open positions and short USD/JPY.

Stand in front of a big screen showing the market.

Abel sees that USD/JPY has reached 125.380.

Talent told Abel that this position is currently a very good opportunity to short USD/JPY in the short term.

The USD/JPY bull market in the second half of 2001 has ended, and is now at its highest position.

In terms of fundamentals, the direction of USD/JPY is significant.

The Neon Central Bank and Neon Government will continue to depreciate the yen, thereby boosting the country's exports. The possibility is very small.

Moreover, the boosting effect of local currency depreciation on export-oriented economies is relative and unsustainable.

On the one hand, while neon companies enjoy the commodity price competitiveness brought about by the depreciation of the local currency, they also need to bear the burden of increasingly expensive imported raw materials and energy.

Therefore, excessive depreciation of the local currency will bring about an increasingly narrowing space for export companies to add value in the industrial chain.

The US dollar/yen is still in the long moving average arrangement at this moment, and the daily K-line of the US dollar/yen has already appeared 5 small positive lines in a row. These are all small positive lines, and they all have long tails. , the upward trend began to gradually become smaller.

In human terms, the current support for the rise of USD/JPY is getting smaller and smaller.

USD/JPY is expected to plummet in the future, and now is a good time to open a short position.

"The problem is...the character who is targeting me this time is very unusual!"

Abel thought to himself.

Abel, who had already been told by his talent, knew who his opponent was.

At this moment, he felt like the Shilipo Sword God who had just left the Novice Village and met one of the ultimate villains in the game.

He knew he was very strong, but because he was facing one of the strongest ultimate villains.

While I feel that I am sure to defeat the opponent, it is difficult to avoid feeling uneasy in my heart.

Fortunately, the continuous victories have allowed Abel to build a strong psychological defense.

A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, let alone the Shilipo Sword God who just left Xinshou Village!

Suppressing the trace of uneasiness in my heart, what followed was more expectation.

It is the expectation of colliding and confronting one of the most powerful financial forces in the world.

"call--"

Abel let out a breath and continued to activate his talent.

Now USD/JPY is starting to top, at least the top in the first half of 2002.

The entire K-line pattern is also brewing into a big evening star pattern.

The evening star pattern appears in an upward trend and consists of three K lines. The first one is the positive line, the second one is the cross line, and the third one is the negative line. The third K-line entity goes deep into the first K-line entity.

This is also the perfect opportunity to enter a short position.

Since this time, Smith Capital has established 200,000 short positions.

Especially in the past few days, every time a position is opened, it is testing the highest position of USD/JPY.

Because he was facing those people, Abel only asked traders to short one or two thousand lots at a time.

Only when he appears in person and directs the transactions will the number of transactions become larger and larger.

At present, Abel's average position for opening a position is 125.300, which makes Abel still in a state of floating losses.

For a short position of 200,000 US dollars/yen, a one-point fluctuation is equivalent to US$2 million. Abel's current floating loss is about US$40 million.

This 40 million US dollars was just a drop of money to Abel, and he didn't care about it at all.

What's more, floating losses are the same as floating profits. As long as the position is not closed, it is just a floating cloud.

Abel knows that if you open a position now, you can't open too many positions too quickly. If you short hundreds of thousands of USD/JPY short orders at one time, it is estimated that the market will not be able to digest it, and it will easily cause the USD/JPY to plummet.

Abel didn't want to do this, so he slowly sold short at a high level and tried to get as much goods as possible in the highest area.

At the same time, you must also be wary of the other party's operations.

If you are betting against these people, you cannot expect that the trend of USD/JPY will be honest.

If there was really a problem with the gambling, he believed that those people would dare to resort to tricks.

This is why as soon as he arrived in Singapore, he found someone to bring over Ellis Parker Butler, Benjamin de Seural, and even the local leader Li.

Both Benjamin and Ellis have a strong background in the Texas conglomerate and are considered their own.

Boss Li is a local snake.

By contacting these three people, Abel wanted to avoid some kind of desperate situation that his opponents might have while in Singapore.

In fact, if possible, what Abel wants most now is to return to the United States.

It's just that the betting has begun, and the journey back to the United States has begun to become dangerous.

That's why Abel didn't run around and chose to stay in Singapore temporarily.

It is now 6:30 pm on April 1st.

Abel saw that the current USD/JPY had once again reached 125.400, and he immediately ordered the operators to short 10,000 USD/JPY lots.

This approach immediately pushed USD/JPY down 5 points before it was supported, and then USD/JPY began to fluctuate.

After 5 minutes, it rushed up again, and Abel chose to short 10,000 lots again, suppressing it again.

It went back and forth like this many times, and USD/JPY could no longer reach the 125.400 position.

It is currently oscillating above the 125.300 position, but the support at the 125.400 position is still very strong.

Seeing this situation and the opponent's next operation, which was gifted with early warning, Abel sneered:

"Since you haven't tested which is the highest point, then let me create one. 125.400, this is the position I have set for you. The ultimate villain, Shilipo Sword God is not afraid of anyone!"

Just now, Abel shorted a total of 60,000 USD/JPY short orders at 125.400.

Smith Capital currently holds a total of 260,000 USD/JPY short positions.

At eight o'clock, when USD/JPY fell, Abel seized the opportunity and shorted 5,000 USD/JPY again.

Suddenly USD/JPY fell two points again, and then was supported again at 125.350.

Abel immediately continued to increase his short position by 5,000 lots, and USD/JPY was unable to hold on to the 125.350 position.

After more than ten minutes, USD/JPY slipped many points and reached 125.300.

Abel smiled and continued to short USD/JPY.

…

…

Same time, different time zones.

When night falls in Singapore.

It's daytime over in New York.

Inside the unique office of JPMorgan Chase Bank's trading department in Manhattan.

A younger, more energetic John Cleese was present.

The head of the Morgan family watched USD/JPY fall again.

It has now fallen to 125.300.

He had been watching for several hours and couldn't help but said:

"It's a bit outrageous. Why is it that the opponent is just right every time? James, your transaction seems to be targeted every time."

Not long ago, Morgan and Rockefeller, who had failed in their "showdown", saw that Abel was not cooperating.

Both parties decided to break Smith's unbeaten golden status, forcing Abel to negotiate with them, and forcing Abel to accept their conditions.

After he and David decided together, the operation began.

Of course, the specific work of market making and trading, buying and selling, naturally does not need to be done by two of them.

As the core figures of a huge group, all John and David need to do is make up their mind and make a decision.

Then contact other allies, persuade or use other methods to get them to support their decision.

Wait for everyone to reach consensus and let their will be made known.

Then the relevant parts of the huge consortium machine will naturally start to operate.

After that, all they need to do is just keep an eye on the market and be ready to counterattack the opponent's off-market and intra-market moves at any time.

Or come up with useful off-board and inside-the-board moves to attack the opponent, thereby increasing your side's winning rate.

Because it has just begun, neither side has made any moves yet.

In other words, the real confrontation has just begun at this time, and it has not yet become intense.

David has less energy, John Cleese has more energy.

Today John Cleese came over to inspect the trading room.

As a result, he saw the marketing department of Morgan Chase. In the confrontation with the opponent, he was almost completely at a disadvantage during the few hours he was there.

I saw my boss questioning me like this.

The head of JPMorgan's trading department and one of the presidents of JPMorgan Chase Bank, James Robinson, was sweating profusely.

James Robinson formerly worked at Citibank.

In April 1998, the shocking merger of Citigroup and Travelers Group ushered in the first mixed business operation on Wall Street.

In that change, James Robinson and the boss he followed, Jamie Dimon, were shuffled out in the reshuffle of power.

Jamie Dimon immediately went to First Bank of America as CEO.

James Robinson originally wanted to follow, but was introduced to Morgan Chase Bank.

Because of his excellent investment ability, James Robinson has been promoted several times at JPMorgan Chase in the past few years, and now serves as marketing director and bank president.

This top investment banking tycoon has earned the company more than US$2 billion in net profits each year in the past three years.

At this moment, I didn’t know how to explain it to John Cleese.

Because just now, during the few hours that John Cleese watched the game.

James Robinson makes a trading decision every time for Smith Capital.

Almost all of them were dealt with immediately, and were even brought back by the counter-general.

The details here are complex and difficult for non-industry people to understand.

To put it simply, the two armies are at war.

James Robinson is the blue, opposite is the green.

Every time the Blue Army makes some movement, the results have not yet been harvested, and the bullets have not even been fired.

As a result, the Green Army responded at the speed of light, leaving the Blue Army so blocked that they didn't even have a chance to pull the trigger.

To put it simply, James Robinson is playing games such as WAR3 and Red Alert.

At the beginning of the game, when everyone is invisible.

But the other side seemed to have the whole map open, targeting James Robinson step by step from the beginning.

The key is that John Cleese is watching from behind.

When the chief trader James Robinson was asked this question, he was naturally so nervous that he broke into a cold sweat.

Is there a spy on my side?

Otherwise, why would the other party's predictions be so accurate every time?

It’s so uncomfortable! James Robinson was a little flustered.

Seeing James Robinson sweating profusely, John Cleese frowned.

After thinking for a moment, John Cleese said: "You continue your work, I will make a phone call."

A few minutes later, James Robinson saw John Cleese walking back.

The head of the Morgen family said in a somewhat excited and curious tone:

"My intelligence shows that Abe Smith is personally operating the operation on the other side! James, the person who made you feel so uncomfortable just now is the investment god of Wall Street!"

His voice was a little bewildering, but also encouraging James Robinson.

"Whether you can successfully kill God and become the CEO of Morgan Chase. James, it depends on whether you can defeat Smith head-on. This is a rare opportunity, and David and I will support you from behind."