Chapter 118 The Wall Street short-selling alliance was liquidated by Yang Chen
The little secretary quickly replied: "Dr. Ma, you guessed it right, Sihai Investment is really shorting our stocks."
Brother Ma nodded with confusion and immediately called Yang Chen.
"Hey, Director Yang, what do you mean? What do you mean by shorting our stocks for no reason?" Xiao Ma asked straight to the point.
Yang Chen smiled and said: "Ask the person in charge of your sports business, he will explain it clearly to you."
Yang Chen hung up the phone, and Brother Ma immediately called Penguin Sports President Liu Hong to ask what was going on.
"Mr. Liu, why did you offend Yang Chen? He is now shorting our group's stocks." Brother Xiao Ma asked.
Liu Hong explained: "He asked me to help communicate with the NBA and send three teams to play preseason games with his Sihai team. I thought that I couldn't work in vain, so I asked him to give us a share of the pie. . But he was unwilling to give it to us. He only said that we would be allowed to broadcast the game and be in the competition venue. Advertising for Penguin Sports. Isn’t this a joke? We can already broadcast NBA games, do we need him to give us broadcast rights? As for on-site advertising, it is of little use to us. Who doesn’t know Penguin Sports? Are you right?”
Brother Ma didn't say anything, but he felt that what Liu Hong said made sense. Penguin Sports spends 500 million eagle coins a year to broadcast NBA games. As the NBA's largest partner in Dragon Kingdom, of course, Penguin Sports must host NBA games in Dragon Kingdom. To take the lead, how much money you make is secondary. This is a matter of face.
Liu Hong continued: "I have already been communicating with Xiao Hua to see if we can arrange for two teams to come to Longguo to play in this year's preseason. The creditors are spoiling Yang Chen, but we don't have to."
"Okay, I understand. Just do your business." Brother Ma said, and then hung up the phone.
Penguin Holdings' current market value exceeds 4 trillion, and its performance is very impressive. It is also the Internet giant of Dragon Country. From a normal perspective, no one can succeed in shorting.
Brother Xiao Ma didn't know that Yang Chen had a cheat, and thinking from a normal perspective, he would naturally think that Yang Chen could not successfully short Penguin Holdings with a market value of 40 billion.
Brother Xiao Ma called Yang Chen again and said with a smile: "Director Yang, I have asked, and I think Mr. Liu did nothing wrong. You are a bit crazy to short us because of this."
Yang Chen said with a smile: "Young people, it's normal to be a little crazy. We all want to protect our own interests. We don't distinguish between right and wrong. We only care about winning or losing."
Brother Ma smiled and said: "Okay, you can play if you want. If you can make money by shorting Penguin Holdings, I will obey you."
"Okay, let's see the results." Yang Chen said with a smile.
After Xiao Ma hung up the phone, he asked his secretary to send an announcement, denounced Yang Chen's banditry of short selling Penguin Holdings.
Soon the news about Yang Chen’s short selling of Penguin Holdings was on the hot search list on all major platforms.
After all, Penguin is an Internet giant and controls the Internet's voice to a certain extent. Under their deliberate guidance, public opinion criticism of Yang Chen soon started on the Internet.
"Is Yang Chen crazy? What's the point of shorting his own company if he has the ability to go to foreigners?"
"I hate people who are in trouble the most, not to mention that Penguin's performance is so good, what kind of nonsense is he doing?"
"Did Yang Chen think of himself as a god after he succeeded in short selling a few times? He didn't even look at Penguin's market value and performance. Even if a god came, he wouldn't be able to succeed in short selling."
"Being short on someone else's stock price if they don't want to help is different from a robber. If he did this to foreign investors, I could still support him. But if he does this to Longguo's companies, I am very disgusted with him."
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People who often play on the Internet know that when conflicts are bound to national and national emotions, many people will be led to the rhythm without thinking.
Yang Chen's Weibo was exploded, and tens of thousands of comments were criticizing him. Of course, most of them were trolls who set the pace, and some people who were easy to follow the pace added fuel to the fire, which resulted in the current situation. situation.
After listening to the secretary's report, Brother Ma said with a smile: "You are still young. I have been working hard for decades, and I have never seen any big storms. I admit that he is very strong, but he is not qualified to be my opponent. I don’t even have the desire to take action myself.”
The secretary immediately flattered him and said: "There are so many big bosses coming and going in the Longguo business world, and the other big bosses are gradually falling out of favor. Only you, Director Ma, are still standing. He is a young guy who has just debuted, why should he let Director Ma take action himself? ”
Although the secretary was flattering, there was some truth in what he said.
The big guys who were competitors with Xiao Ma in the past have either retired, been in decline, or are still standing still. Only Xiao Ma is still standing at the top of the Dragon Kingdom business world, so it is normal for Xiao Ma to look down on Yang Chen. If he would do it now It goes against normal logic to think highly of Yang Chen.
In terms of company strength, Penguin Holdings beats Sihai Group at its peak, let alone Sihai Group that is now half-dead.
In terms of relationships at all levels, the name Nanshan Pizza Hut is not for nothing, and the social relationship between Yang Chen and Sihai Group is not at all bothersome.
How could an old monster in the Nascent Soul stage pay attention to a young talent who had just emerged from a declining sect?
other side.
Yang Chen was appreciating the criticism of netizens with Liu Mei.
"I'm sure there must be navy troops taking the lead. This is too one-sided," Huang Wei said.
Zhao Jing followed up and said: "There is no doubt that Penguin must be deliberately leading public opinion to attack Director Yang. They control the traffic, and we have no traffic, so we really suffer."
Chen Xi asked: "Director Yang, are we going to do something? We can't just watch the navy attack you in a rhythm, right?"
"Yes! If you ask Mayor Wang and others for help, Penguin will definitely not dare to attack you again." Gao Ya suggested.
Yang Chen said with a smile: "Ignore them, I might as well play games with you if I have time."
"Then let's play the king's game of catching his concubine again, shall we?" Chen Xi said with a smile.
Although I have played this game many times, I have a different experience every time, and Yang Chen is still very happy to play it.
"Your Majesty, come and catch me..."
Lu Mei immediately entered the state, and Yang Chen stood up and rushed forward.
At 9:30 p.m., the Bald Eagle's stock market opened.
Adidas President Hebner sent a video conference request on time, and Yang Chen answered the call with a smile.
"Mr. Yang, how are your preparations going? When can we take action?" Hebner asked.
Yang Chen smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will take action."
At this time, Goldman Sachs President Wen Deli called Hebner.
Hebner immediately said to Yang Chen: "Mr. Yang, Goldman Sachs President Wen Deli called me, do you want to listen?"
Yang Chen smiled and nodded and said, "It's okay to listen."
Hebner immediately answered the phone on speakerphone and asked: "Mr. Vendry, what on earth do you mean? Why are you shorting our stock price?"
Wen Deli smiled and replied: "You can't blame us. If you are to blame, it's Yang Chen who bought your stocks. This time we were short-selling your company on the order of Mr. Powell, the head of the Eagle Fed, with the purpose of trapping Yang Chen's funds. .”
Hebner immediately said angrily: "Mr. Yang also bought Nike. Why don't you short Nike to trap his funds? It's simply inexplicable. Why do you want to implicate us in the grievances between you?"
Wen Deli laughed loudly and said: "Nike is our own company, of course we can't short-sell. If you don't want the stock price to continue to fall, you can immediately terminate your sponsorship of the Sihai Team. We just want to vent bad words on Yang Chen, you let us put this The bad words came out and we immediately terminated the short selling.”
Originally Yang Chen didn't want to speak, but Wen Deli said it for this reason, and Yang Chen couldn't do it without speaking.
Yang Chen said loudly: "Wen Deli, the stock price of Goldman Sachs has gone back up. You think you can do it again, right?"
Wen Deli hurriedly said: "Who? Who is talking?"
Yang Chen said very rudely: "I am your father, Yang Chen. You, the defeated generals, are just a mob gathered together, and you still want to take it out on your father? Are you worthy? Tell your allies, Adidas I’ve guaranteed the stock price, even if the short selling fails when Jesus comes, you should prepare more money to cover your positions, and I will close your short orders tonight.”
Wen Deli was silent for a while and then said: "Haha... Why is Mr. Yang at Hebner's side? We are also acting under orders. Please bear with me, Mr. Yang."
"I can't forgive you, our strength speaks for itself. I'll give you one hour to mobilize funds, and after one hour I will raise the stock price of Adidas." Yang Chen said.
Wendli immediately hung up the phone and quickly contacted his allies who were shorting Adidas' stock price to discuss countermeasures.
Half an hour later, the Wall Street Journal published an article about Adidas.
The article mainly contains four points.
First, Adidas's performance in Longguo continued to decline, contributing only 4.3% of profits. At the same time, Longguo stores had a backlog of goods totaling 64.3 billion euros that needed to be cleared.
Second, the famous Bald Eagle singer Kanye West has applied to terminate his contract with Adidas. The 11-year cooperative relationship between the two parties is about to end. The coconut shoes produced by Adidas for West urgently need to be liquidated at a loss. According to professional statistical calculations, excluding the contribution of the Yeezy series to performance, Adidas' average annual sales have only grown by 1% since 2017, and its profitability is very worrying. .
Third, according to a market survey report from Longguo, young people in Longguo have a very bad impression of Adidas. They are more inclined to choose products from other brands. This means that at least in the next 20 years, Adidas will Si's performance in the Dragon Kingdom is unlikely to improve.
Fourth, Adidas’ share in Bald Eagle sports leagues such as the NBA continues to decline. The pattern of competition between Nike and Adidas ten years ago is gone forever. Brands such as Under Armor quickly eat up Adidas. This situation will continue until Adidas completely withdraws from the major sports leagues of the Bald Eagle family.
These contents are all facts, but the Wall Street Journal over-exaggerated the impact and results. The purpose is naturally to intimidate retail investors and institutions in the secondary market to sell Adicais's stock, so as to achieve their purpose of shorting Adicais' stock price.
The Wall Street Journal has a great influence. This article quickly topped the hot spots list of major financial platforms, and spread quickly abroad. The direct impact was that the stock price of Adidas fell rapidly and broke through the 30 Eagle Coin price. close. At this time, the presidents of the short-selling alliance who were communicating via video conference smiled happily.
Goldman Sachs President Wen Deli said with a smile: "Yang Chen thought that he was the only one who could do short selling, and we are the ancestors of short selling!"
"Haha..."
Pacquiao, the president of BlackRock, said: "I suffered a big loss from him, and I have to make up for it!"
Kerman, the president of Tiger Fund, said with a smile: "When our Tiger Fund shorted Southeast Asia, he was not even born yet. I taught him for free how to short a company perfectly."
"Haha..."
Barkley, President of Vanguard, said: "We are done with Adidas. Even Jesus can't save it."
"Haha..."
It can be seen that these bosses are very confident in their operations, and everyone feels that they have won surely.
One thing to say is that the short-selling steps of these big guys are very standard, and the short-selling reports have sufficient evidence. Under normal circumstances, the stock prices of short-sold companies will definitely fall sharply.
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Therefore, it is very reasonable for them to be so confident and happy.
However, it is a pity that their opponent is Yang Chen, a man who cannot be dealt with by conventional means, so they are destined to fail.
Adidas President Hebner saw the Wall Street Journal article and yelled angrily on the spot.
After scolding him, he quickly said to Yang Chen: "Mr. Yang, what should we do? It has dropped below 30. This Wall Street Journal article is too lethal. How should we fight back? We will follow your orders."
Yang Chen said with a smile: "What they said is right, you don't have to refute it. The best way to deal with short selling is to raise the stock price. Other operations are not as effective as this method. Look, I will raise the stock price now. Stock price. Ah Chao, start shopping and stop when you buy 50.”
Chen Chao immediately replied: "Understood! Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, immediately use the account you control to buy Adidas stocks, buy boldly under 50!"
The traders immediately took action and bought Adidas shares through the accounts they controlled.
29, 30, 33, 35, 38, 40……
The stock price of Adidas broke through the 40 mark without any hindrance. At this time, all accounts of Sihai Investment used a total of 1.2 billion Eagle coins.
At this time, short the alliance video conference room.
Goldman Sachs President Wen Deli exclaimed: "What happened? How did the price rise back? Did someone buy it?"
Kerman, president of Tiger Management, said: "Someone did buy it, and it is estimated that 1 billion eagle coins were spent. Unfortunately, retail investors' long sentiment has been aroused, and many retail investors are rushing to buy with small orders."
Pacquiao, the president of BlackRock, said helplessly: "Are these retail investors crazy? Just 1 billion eagle coins has aroused their long sentiment? Barkley, we are holding the Adidas The stocks are all sold, and this wave of bullish sentiment must be suppressed!”
BlackRock and Vanguard lead the world in investing in wealthy companies. Adidas is also one of the companies they invest in, but they only hold a small number of shares. The two companies only hold 8 million shares in total.
Originally, they had no intention of selling these shares. After this short selling is over, the share price of Adidas will definitely rise back.
Now the situation is not good, and they have to temporarily change their plans to sell their Adidas shares to suppress the stock price.
Buckley immediately replied: "No problem! I will notify the trader to sell Adidas' shares now."
The 8 million shares of Adidas held by BlackRock and Vanguard were all priced at 35 eagle coins, forcing the stock price back from 41.
But before they had time to breathe a sigh of relief, their remaining sell orders worth 210 million eagle coins were eaten up in one go. Then the stock price of Adidas rose rapidly again, and the number of retail investors buying orders following the trend also increased again, and even appeared. Buy orders from some institutions quickly pushed the stock price to 49.
The pressure level of 50 did not hold down for too long. Just one minute later, Adidas' stock price broke through the 50 mark, and quickly broke through the cost price of 55 eagle coins of the Wall Street short-selling alliance.
Goldman Sachs President Wen Deli said excitedly: "How could this be? Our short selling report is so perfectly written, how could it have no effect?"
Kerman, the president of Tiger Management, said very puzzledly: "I don't understand, why are retail investors and institutions doing long? Who is buying after all? Didn't they see our short-selling report? ”
BlackRock President Pacquiao said: "Oops, it has exceeded 60, and it has reached our liquidation level. Hurry up and replenish the margin, otherwise it will be liquidated. We will replenish it to 80 Eagle coins as a liquidation line."
The CEOs of various companies quickly called traders to replenish short-selling margins. They had to hold on because they didn't believe that the stock price could break through 80 eagle coins.
Facts have proved that it is impossible not to believe in evil. Only five minutes later, the stock price of Adidas exceeded 80 Eagle coins.
Judging from the market opening, buying orders are very active and everyone is rushing to raise funds. It is not difficult for the stock price to break through 100 Eagle Coins.
Pacquiao, the president of BlackRock, was frightened and said: "It looks like we can't hold it anymore. It may break through 100 eagle coins at any time. Do we still need to continue to add margin to carry on?"
The other bosses didn't answer his question immediately, and everyone was obviously afraid.
However, they are afraid of returning, and they cannot give up easily at this point. Based on their decades of investment experience, even if the stock price of Adidas can break through 100 eagle coins, there will definitely be no greater increase.
After a short discussion, they added all the funds they mobilized into the margin and raised the short-selling liquidation line to 120 Eagle coins.
"Fake! I still don't believe it. Can retail investors buy 120 eagle coins at a price?" Goldman Sachs President Wen Deli said.
Kerman, President of Tiger Fund, said: "Impossible! It is absolutely impossible to get 120 eagle coins, otherwise I can retire home and take care of myself."
It seems that God thinks Kerman is working too hard and wants him to retire early.
Driven by the rush of retail investors and institutions, the share price of Adidas exceeded 120 eagle coins in the blink of an eye, and is still rising.
All the big guys were dumbfounded. This horse-trading was unscientific. How could it have risen like this? What went wrong?
Since there was no extra funds to replenish the margin, all the short orders issued by the short-selling alliance were liquidated, and 6.7 billion Eagle coins were lost.
"Farke! Farke! The position exploded in one day. Why is this happening?" Wen Deli roared angrily.
Kerman of Tiger Fund said: "It's over. This year's performance is all over. Who will bear our losses? Falk! Will Powell bear it?"
BlackRock President Pacquiao said: "Do you think he will take the responsibility? Farke! I didn't want to target Yang Chen at the beginning. I was only willing if you were all willing."
Barkley, the president of Vanguard, said angrily: "What do you mean by this? Do you still want to put the responsibility on us? I also said that I didn't want to target Yang Chen, but you all agreed, so I was forced to agree. ”
Look, look, Wall Street bosses are also ordinary people. Once they suffer a loss, they will rebel.
Goldman Sachs President Wen Deli immediately called Powell. He said angrily: "We have exploded and lost all our money! What should we do?"
Powell scolded: "Farke! What on earth do you do? So many super institutions can't deal with Yang Chen? You are so well prepared, why are retail investors still buying the stock price of Adidas like crazy? Who can follow me? Explain it?”
Wen Deli angrily said: "Who can explain the following to you? I want to explain it! Our family has lost a total of 6.7 billion eagle coins. Who will bear our losses?"
Powell comforted: "Okay, don't get excited, I have one last trick. When Yang Chen sells the stocks and withdraws the money to his bank account, I will immediately order his bank account to be frozen! Don't even think about the money he earned. Take it back!”
After losing several times in a row, Powell no longer cared about dignity.
He is now like a gambler who is eager to lose, and has no morals at all.
other side.
Adidas President Hebner laughed so hard that his white skin turned into red.
"Mr. Yang, I'm convinced. I'm really convinced. You're really awesome. This operation really opened my eyes. You single-handedly raised the stock price to more than 120 eagle coins. Haha... Mr. Yang, how much does this cost you?" Hebner asked curiously.
Yang Chen smiled and replied: "A total of 3.1 billion eagle coins were spent."
The smile on Hebner's face immediately froze, and he asked excitedly: "How much? 3.1 billion eagle coins? This... how is this possible? The stock price increased from 30 to 120, and the market value increased by more than 40 billion eagle coins. , why did you spend 3.1 billion Eagle coins? Who bought the rest of the market value?”
Yang Chen replied: "Of course retail investors and institutions are buying. Do you need to ask?"
Hebner originally thought that Yang Chen bought it with real gold and silver and forcibly raised the price to 120 eagle coins. Now Yang Chen said that it was retail investors and institutional buying that pushed the price up. This is unscientific!
When retail investors and institutions see the short-selling reports coming out of Wall Street, shouldn’t they be afraid to buy?
This is indeed the case under normal circumstances, but those retail investors and institutional investors who are paying attention to Adidas don't know what's going on. They always feel that there is a voice in their minds reminding them to buy Adidas quickly, and their consciousness is gradually affected by this. Using voice control, I bought all the shares of Adidas without realizing it.
"But why do retail investors and institutions go long with you? Shouldn't they be frightened by Wall Street's short-selling reports and dare not buy?" Hebner asked.
Yang Chen smiled and said: "Of course it's because the 3 billion Eagle Coins I bought gave them the confidence to go long. Let's not talk about it anymore. I have fulfilled my promise to you. I know what you are going to do next. Right? ”
Hebner laughed loudly and said: "Clear! I will go to Longguo in person right away and sign a contract to sponsor the Sihai Basketball Team. This time we want the advertising rights to display the brand logo on the upper body of the jersey, and the right to use one of the players' feet. 350 million euros per year, is it okay to sign directly for 10 years?”
(End of chapter)