On November 15, in front of the St. Paul Stock Exchange on Pedestrian Street, Li Zai'an hurried out from the gate with two followers. His eyes were flashed by the dazzling sunshine. When he reached out to cover it, a black man ran over in front and supported a parasol on his head.
Sir, what's going on? The young man looked hopeful, obviously intending to hear good news from him
Without giving him a reply directly, Li Zaian took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He lit it with the lighter handed over by his companion. While rubbing his slightly red and swollen eyes with the back of his hands, he looked across the street.
In the past nearly a week, Li Zaian almost lived and ate and lived in the damn stock exchange behind him. Although he was an anonymous big player and had a room for rest on the stock exchange, the pressure he was under when staring at the futures trend all day still made him feel a little overwhelmed.
This time he was like he was trying his best to fight. The millions of dollars misappropriated from the organization were not even a drop in the ocean in the international crude oil futures market, but the price fluctuations of each point and even a few points were stirring his nerves.
The memories of the previous life can bring Li Zaian to advanced foresight, but this foresight is not all-round after all. For example, in terms of futures indexes, he still has some impression of the long-term rise and fall, such as the futures rise and fall of coffee beans, which is a market trend for several months or even half a year. It is basically enough to grasp an approximate month of rise and fall.
As for the short-term market, similar to the specific rise and fall of a certain type of futures, it is impossible for him to remember clearly. Most of the time, he still has to make a decision based on his own judgment.
This time, the futures trading that Li Zai'an personally operated was crude oil futures. It was purely short-term operation. The purpose was to make a fortune from the futures market by taking advantage of the spring breeze of the Gulf War. The ultimate goal of his doing so was not for money, but to consolidate his position within the Morio drug trafficking organization.
In my past life, Li Zaian vaguely remembers that during the First Gulf War, the rise and fall of international crude oil futures fluctuated significantly in a very short cycle. The crude oil price once soared to the historical highest price of US$30 per barrel at the price of US$18 per barrel at the price of US$30 per barrel.
But this cycle is indeed very short, and it can even be said to be surprising
Before the official entry, Li Zaian made a detailed analysis. He believed that the cause of the short-term fluctuations in international oil prices could not be the Gulf War itself, because before the Desert Storm operation officially began, the Organization of the Middle East Petroleum Exporting Countries had made a decision to increase production, which was very effective in stabilizing international crude oil prices during the war.
In addition, this war lasted very short. After deducting a period of war time dominated by air raids, the real ground war only lasted four or five days.
With the decision of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in the front and the result of a rapid war, the two factors combined are a complete guarantee for stabilizing international crude oil prices.
Since the war itself is not the reason for the short-term decline in oil prices, we have to start from other aspects to find the reason. Finally, based on some impressions in my previous life memory, Li Zai'an targeted relevant factors outside the battlefield. To be precise, it was the defeated Iraqi army in the war that ignited the Kuwait oil well.
In the memory of previous lives, the Kuwait oil wells ignited by Iraqis in the entire war were not one or two, but hundreds. They reflected in the international crude oil futures market, which was a continuous impact on speculators' psychological expectations.
Without the prospect of war, people will worry about how long this large-scale sabotage will last, whether it will expand infinitely, and whether it will spread to unlimited damage to other oil facilities such as oil pipelines, which will directly affect the post-war reconstruction of Kuwait and the recovery of oil production.
Affected by these factors, international oil prices will inevitably surge in a specific period, and as the war ends in a short period of time, this surge in situations will quickly stabilize, thus forming a surge in the ups and downs cycle.
After careful consideration, Li Zaian believed that his judgment was unlikely to go wrong, so he chose to enter the field when the Iraqis ignited the first oil well nearly a week ago.
But everything that happened afterwards was obviously not satisfactory. After four consecutive trading days, the price of crude oil futures was moderate at about 18 US dollars per barrel. As of this morning, the futures price had fallen by nearly 24 percentage points compared to the price when Li Zaian entered the market.
For nearly four million US dollars of investment, the loss of this level of decline is not very large, but the problem is that this cycle is too long, and the middle and lower-level leaders who have raised money can't sit still.
After all, Li Zai'an's current position within the Morio drug trafficking organization is still unstable. There is Banoro's suspicion above and the unfamiliarity of middle and lower-level leaders, and all kinds of dissatisfaction. When there is no problem, with his fierce temperament, the middle and lower-level leaders dare not question his decision, but once there is a problem, nothing can be said.
Li Zaian knew very well that relying on his fierce temperament and cruel and ruthless methods alone was not enough to firmly control the leaders of the organization below, and it was even more impossible to pull them into the opposition of Banoro. For these people, cold means and visible interests are indispensable to maintaining loyalty.
Li Zaan is cold enough and capable enough. Now, he wants these people to see the interests. Seeing that following him will have a golden road of money
The black guy holding an umbrella is not Li Zaian'an's person. He was arranged by the leaders to come and ask for information. Li Zaian didn't say a word in front of him, and the young man didn't dare to ask more. In his mind, the yellow-skinned Asian man in front of him was still the second leader of the organization, and he was not able to provoke him at all.
The current market is $1,834 per barrel. After sucking two puffs of cigarettes, Li Zaian looked up at the sky through the umbrella and said to the black man holding the umbrella.
1834?! The black guy was arranged by a group of middle and lower-level leaders to watch the market. He naturally understood some futures matters. He was instinctively stunned when he heard the current market as Li Zaian said.
At the opening of the market this morning, the young man came to see it in person. The market was still $1,773 per barrel at that time, and it was in the decline. Compared with the price they bought at the beginning, the price fell by 24 cents per barrel. Why did the market soar to this level in the past morning?
1834 per barrel, this price is equivalent to their investment of more than 60,000 US dollars.
He knew very well what the young man was worried about. Li Zaian turned his head and looked at him and said: I want to go back to Morio now. Leave the matter here to you. Keep a close eye on it. When the market rises to $30 per barrel, you will get out. Don’t retreat in advance, and don’t be too greedy. Do you know?
Yes, sir, the young man frequently looked back at the gate of the stock exchange and said absent-mindedly
While talking, a black Ford car drove over from the side of the road and slowly stopped in front of Li Zaian.
The follower behind him quickly caught up and opened the car door
Also, no one can move the profitable money this time, leaning over and getting into the car, Li Zaian finally said, first of all, we must make up for the deficits in the account, and let’s talk about the others later
Yes, sir, the young man said with his waist bent outside the car
The Ford quickly re-started and drove slowly along the bustling street. After finally disappearing into the crowd, the young man holding an umbrella breathed a sigh of relief, threw away the parasol in his hand, rushed to the gate of the stock exchange not far away.
1835...1839...1842...1857... The data of international crude oil futures on the futures market is constantly jumping, and large transaction volumes refresh the transaction prices again and again. These data changes are intertwined by the competition between short and long sides, and also entangled the psychological expectations obtained by speculators from the analysis of the international situation.
Li Zaian's analysis of crude oil futures is correct, but there are also mistakes. He calculated that the Iraqi army retreated and ignited Kuwait oil wells was a factor that caused the surge in crude oil futures. However, he did not know that this factor was not the fundamental factor.
In general, in the first month of 1991, the futures prices of the international crude oil market completed a jump from US$18 per barrel to more than US$30 per barrel within a week, which is essentially a large-scale gathering of international hot money.
Hundreds of billions of hot money flocked from all corners of no one around the world, jumped into the stagnant international crude oil futures market, stirring up a huge wave, and then resigned in just one week, rushing towards East Asia and Japan like locust plague.
After all, this round of surge in international crude oil futures prices is just caused by the transition of massive international hot money.
On that day, the international crude oil futures price of the Sao Paulo futures market opened at $1,773 per barrel and finally closed at $1,976 per barrel. The surging market broke the record of the largest single-day increase in international crude oil futures. The $4 million investment manipulated by Li Zai'an not only wiped out all previous losses on this day, but also closed nearly $500,000 in profits
500,000 US dollars is not a big figure, but for all the middle and lower-level leaders of the Morio drug trafficking organization, this figure is quite attractive. After all, they did nothing except embezzlement of organizational funds.
In the following days, Li Zaian never appeared on the stock exchange again, and the price of crude oil futures still climbed up at an astonishing speed. This increase lifted the hearts of every middle and lower-level leader in the organization, making them unable to eat or sleep.
Finally, on the first day of February, the crude oil futures price exceeded the expected price of $30 per barrel. If Li Zai'an hadn't suddenly appeared in the dance hall where a group of big guys met, these people would have been reluctant to leave the market at such a good time.
After two weeks of futures operations, the original 4 million US dollars increased by nearly half, and the 1.8 million yuan income made everyone extremely excited. If the money is spread out, it means that every middle and lower-level leader can get 130,000 yuan and still have zero points.
The money is not much, but it is free. Even if you lend money, you don't have such a high profit.
It was still the dance hall a week ago, the empty room, and the dozen people. However, this time, no one doubted and complained about embezzling funds for futures investment. When Li Zai'an walked into the door surrounded by two accompanying people, he saw only excited red faces.
Mr. Paul, when he saw Li Zai'an appear at the door, more than a dozen people stood up in a hurry and greeted him.
Speaking of which, after Banoro was imprisoned, Amaru presided over all the organization's affairs and was shot and killed. The turbulence over the past few years has been severe, and the tendency of centrifugality within the drug trafficking organization has been very serious. Although no one has made any public statement, it is unlikely that Banoro will control the middle and lower levels of the entire organization as high pressure as in the past.
Behind the organization, Banoro has lost Betheron's support, and he can really make a move now, just his reputation in the Morio slum and absolute control over the source of drugs
On the periphery of the organization, several other drug trafficking organizations entrenched in Sao Paulo also have competitive relationships with Morio. For example, the Bissekon drug trafficking group controlled by Evora. Their battle with Morio has been a long time. When Evora's commander Li Zai'an tied Banoro out of prison, the purpose was to eliminate Morio, a competitor, in order to eliminate Morio, a competitor.
In short, various internal and external factors have contributed to the intercourse within the Morio Group today and have also given rise to the centrifugal tendency of these middle and lower-level leaders. If Li Zaian did not achieve a final turnaround in the futures market this time, the people gathered here may not give him any face.
For Li Zaian, he could certainly accurately grasp the mentality of everyone present. If there was no such gain in futures, he would definitely not come here today, but rather how far he could escape, and even this place in Brazil would not stay for a long time.
As for gambling, there are wins and losses. Now that he wins, he will naturally have to reap the benefits he deserves.
Li Zaian never thought of eating a fat man in one bite, and never thought that after this interest conspiracy, he would conquer everyone present. It would take time and a long time to get into the relationship with all the middle and lower-level leaders until they tied their coefficients to the interests that he was in charge of.
All arrived? He took off the sunglasses in front of him and handed them to the accompanying person behind him. Li Zaian glanced around everyone's faces. Shi Shiran walked to a teahouse opposite everyone, and said expressionlessly, "Sit down, sit down and say something."
No matter what you think, at least for now, everyone present is willing to obey his arrangements, and for nothing else, even if you only consider the money factor, it is worth it.
Sir, what's going on? The young man looked hopeful, obviously intending to hear good news from him
Without giving him a reply directly, Li Zaian took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He lit it with the lighter handed over by his companion. While rubbing his slightly red and swollen eyes with the back of his hands, he looked across the street.
In the past nearly a week, Li Zaian almost lived and ate and lived in the damn stock exchange behind him. Although he was an anonymous big player and had a room for rest on the stock exchange, the pressure he was under when staring at the futures trend all day still made him feel a little overwhelmed.
This time he was like he was trying his best to fight. The millions of dollars misappropriated from the organization were not even a drop in the ocean in the international crude oil futures market, but the price fluctuations of each point and even a few points were stirring his nerves.
The memories of the previous life can bring Li Zaian to advanced foresight, but this foresight is not all-round after all. For example, in terms of futures indexes, he still has some impression of the long-term rise and fall, such as the futures rise and fall of coffee beans, which is a market trend for several months or even half a year. It is basically enough to grasp an approximate month of rise and fall.
As for the short-term market, similar to the specific rise and fall of a certain type of futures, it is impossible for him to remember clearly. Most of the time, he still has to make a decision based on his own judgment.
This time, the futures trading that Li Zai'an personally operated was crude oil futures. It was purely short-term operation. The purpose was to make a fortune from the futures market by taking advantage of the spring breeze of the Gulf War. The ultimate goal of his doing so was not for money, but to consolidate his position within the Morio drug trafficking organization.
In my past life, Li Zaian vaguely remembers that during the First Gulf War, the rise and fall of international crude oil futures fluctuated significantly in a very short cycle. The crude oil price once soared to the historical highest price of US$30 per barrel at the price of US$18 per barrel at the price of US$30 per barrel.
But this cycle is indeed very short, and it can even be said to be surprising
Before the official entry, Li Zaian made a detailed analysis. He believed that the cause of the short-term fluctuations in international oil prices could not be the Gulf War itself, because before the Desert Storm operation officially began, the Organization of the Middle East Petroleum Exporting Countries had made a decision to increase production, which was very effective in stabilizing international crude oil prices during the war.
In addition, this war lasted very short. After deducting a period of war time dominated by air raids, the real ground war only lasted four or five days.
With the decision of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in the front and the result of a rapid war, the two factors combined are a complete guarantee for stabilizing international crude oil prices.
Since the war itself is not the reason for the short-term decline in oil prices, we have to start from other aspects to find the reason. Finally, based on some impressions in my previous life memory, Li Zai'an targeted relevant factors outside the battlefield. To be precise, it was the defeated Iraqi army in the war that ignited the Kuwait oil well.
In the memory of previous lives, the Kuwait oil wells ignited by Iraqis in the entire war were not one or two, but hundreds. They reflected in the international crude oil futures market, which was a continuous impact on speculators' psychological expectations.
Without the prospect of war, people will worry about how long this large-scale sabotage will last, whether it will expand infinitely, and whether it will spread to unlimited damage to other oil facilities such as oil pipelines, which will directly affect the post-war reconstruction of Kuwait and the recovery of oil production.
Affected by these factors, international oil prices will inevitably surge in a specific period, and as the war ends in a short period of time, this surge in situations will quickly stabilize, thus forming a surge in the ups and downs cycle.
After careful consideration, Li Zaian believed that his judgment was unlikely to go wrong, so he chose to enter the field when the Iraqis ignited the first oil well nearly a week ago.
But everything that happened afterwards was obviously not satisfactory. After four consecutive trading days, the price of crude oil futures was moderate at about 18 US dollars per barrel. As of this morning, the futures price had fallen by nearly 24 percentage points compared to the price when Li Zaian entered the market.
For nearly four million US dollars of investment, the loss of this level of decline is not very large, but the problem is that this cycle is too long, and the middle and lower-level leaders who have raised money can't sit still.
After all, Li Zai'an's current position within the Morio drug trafficking organization is still unstable. There is Banoro's suspicion above and the unfamiliarity of middle and lower-level leaders, and all kinds of dissatisfaction. When there is no problem, with his fierce temperament, the middle and lower-level leaders dare not question his decision, but once there is a problem, nothing can be said.
Li Zaian knew very well that relying on his fierce temperament and cruel and ruthless methods alone was not enough to firmly control the leaders of the organization below, and it was even more impossible to pull them into the opposition of Banoro. For these people, cold means and visible interests are indispensable to maintaining loyalty.
Li Zaan is cold enough and capable enough. Now, he wants these people to see the interests. Seeing that following him will have a golden road of money
The black guy holding an umbrella is not Li Zaian'an's person. He was arranged by the leaders to come and ask for information. Li Zaian didn't say a word in front of him, and the young man didn't dare to ask more. In his mind, the yellow-skinned Asian man in front of him was still the second leader of the organization, and he was not able to provoke him at all.
The current market is $1,834 per barrel. After sucking two puffs of cigarettes, Li Zaian looked up at the sky through the umbrella and said to the black man holding the umbrella.
1834?! The black guy was arranged by a group of middle and lower-level leaders to watch the market. He naturally understood some futures matters. He was instinctively stunned when he heard the current market as Li Zaian said.
At the opening of the market this morning, the young man came to see it in person. The market was still $1,773 per barrel at that time, and it was in the decline. Compared with the price they bought at the beginning, the price fell by 24 cents per barrel. Why did the market soar to this level in the past morning?
1834 per barrel, this price is equivalent to their investment of more than 60,000 US dollars.
He knew very well what the young man was worried about. Li Zaian turned his head and looked at him and said: I want to go back to Morio now. Leave the matter here to you. Keep a close eye on it. When the market rises to $30 per barrel, you will get out. Don’t retreat in advance, and don’t be too greedy. Do you know?
Yes, sir, the young man frequently looked back at the gate of the stock exchange and said absent-mindedly
While talking, a black Ford car drove over from the side of the road and slowly stopped in front of Li Zaian.
The follower behind him quickly caught up and opened the car door
Also, no one can move the profitable money this time, leaning over and getting into the car, Li Zaian finally said, first of all, we must make up for the deficits in the account, and let’s talk about the others later
Yes, sir, the young man said with his waist bent outside the car
The Ford quickly re-started and drove slowly along the bustling street. After finally disappearing into the crowd, the young man holding an umbrella breathed a sigh of relief, threw away the parasol in his hand, rushed to the gate of the stock exchange not far away.
1835...1839...1842...1857... The data of international crude oil futures on the futures market is constantly jumping, and large transaction volumes refresh the transaction prices again and again. These data changes are intertwined by the competition between short and long sides, and also entangled the psychological expectations obtained by speculators from the analysis of the international situation.
Li Zaian's analysis of crude oil futures is correct, but there are also mistakes. He calculated that the Iraqi army retreated and ignited Kuwait oil wells was a factor that caused the surge in crude oil futures. However, he did not know that this factor was not the fundamental factor.
In general, in the first month of 1991, the futures prices of the international crude oil market completed a jump from US$18 per barrel to more than US$30 per barrel within a week, which is essentially a large-scale gathering of international hot money.
Hundreds of billions of hot money flocked from all corners of no one around the world, jumped into the stagnant international crude oil futures market, stirring up a huge wave, and then resigned in just one week, rushing towards East Asia and Japan like locust plague.
After all, this round of surge in international crude oil futures prices is just caused by the transition of massive international hot money.
On that day, the international crude oil futures price of the Sao Paulo futures market opened at $1,773 per barrel and finally closed at $1,976 per barrel. The surging market broke the record of the largest single-day increase in international crude oil futures. The $4 million investment manipulated by Li Zai'an not only wiped out all previous losses on this day, but also closed nearly $500,000 in profits
500,000 US dollars is not a big figure, but for all the middle and lower-level leaders of the Morio drug trafficking organization, this figure is quite attractive. After all, they did nothing except embezzlement of organizational funds.
In the following days, Li Zaian never appeared on the stock exchange again, and the price of crude oil futures still climbed up at an astonishing speed. This increase lifted the hearts of every middle and lower-level leader in the organization, making them unable to eat or sleep.
Finally, on the first day of February, the crude oil futures price exceeded the expected price of $30 per barrel. If Li Zai'an hadn't suddenly appeared in the dance hall where a group of big guys met, these people would have been reluctant to leave the market at such a good time.
After two weeks of futures operations, the original 4 million US dollars increased by nearly half, and the 1.8 million yuan income made everyone extremely excited. If the money is spread out, it means that every middle and lower-level leader can get 130,000 yuan and still have zero points.
The money is not much, but it is free. Even if you lend money, you don't have such a high profit.
It was still the dance hall a week ago, the empty room, and the dozen people. However, this time, no one doubted and complained about embezzling funds for futures investment. When Li Zai'an walked into the door surrounded by two accompanying people, he saw only excited red faces.
Mr. Paul, when he saw Li Zai'an appear at the door, more than a dozen people stood up in a hurry and greeted him.
Speaking of which, after Banoro was imprisoned, Amaru presided over all the organization's affairs and was shot and killed. The turbulence over the past few years has been severe, and the tendency of centrifugality within the drug trafficking organization has been very serious. Although no one has made any public statement, it is unlikely that Banoro will control the middle and lower levels of the entire organization as high pressure as in the past.
Behind the organization, Banoro has lost Betheron's support, and he can really make a move now, just his reputation in the Morio slum and absolute control over the source of drugs
On the periphery of the organization, several other drug trafficking organizations entrenched in Sao Paulo also have competitive relationships with Morio. For example, the Bissekon drug trafficking group controlled by Evora. Their battle with Morio has been a long time. When Evora's commander Li Zai'an tied Banoro out of prison, the purpose was to eliminate Morio, a competitor, in order to eliminate Morio, a competitor.
In short, various internal and external factors have contributed to the intercourse within the Morio Group today and have also given rise to the centrifugal tendency of these middle and lower-level leaders. If Li Zaian did not achieve a final turnaround in the futures market this time, the people gathered here may not give him any face.
For Li Zaian, he could certainly accurately grasp the mentality of everyone present. If there was no such gain in futures, he would definitely not come here today, but rather how far he could escape, and even this place in Brazil would not stay for a long time.
As for gambling, there are wins and losses. Now that he wins, he will naturally have to reap the benefits he deserves.
Li Zaian never thought of eating a fat man in one bite, and never thought that after this interest conspiracy, he would conquer everyone present. It would take time and a long time to get into the relationship with all the middle and lower-level leaders until they tied their coefficients to the interests that he was in charge of.
All arrived? He took off the sunglasses in front of him and handed them to the accompanying person behind him. Li Zaian glanced around everyone's faces. Shi Shiran walked to a teahouse opposite everyone, and said expressionlessly, "Sit down, sit down and say something."
No matter what you think, at least for now, everyone present is willing to obey his arrangements, and for nothing else, even if you only consider the money factor, it is worth it.
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