Chapter 443 FlashCrash
At 08:30 local time in the federal capital, in the securities trading hall of Boqi Heavy Industries, traders and analysts who were already in place were preparing to officially start today's work as usual. 'Fight' in the market.
Jack Winston, the chief trader of Boqi Heavy Industries, hovered his hands above the virtual keyboard, and his fingertips gracefully touched the masses of light, as if a pianist was playing himself repertoire.
Few traders would have the adjective 'elegant' to describe their work, but Jack Winston is one of them.
He is full of talent in this area. He became the chief trader of Boqi Heavy Industries at a young age. He does have some capital to be proud of. Fighting in the financial market seems to him like a There is a chess game, and he is the 'chess player' sitting firmly on Diaoyutai.
His eyes were fixed on the virtual screen in front of him, which was displaying the stock price of Boqi Heavy Industries and a large amount of data and information he needed. Everything seemed calm and normal.
At least so far. .
Just when he took the refreshing hot drink from his assistant and was about to see if several traders who were newly promoted to the headquarters from below had adapted to the intense rhythm of the headquarters, something suddenly popped up in the lower right corner of the screen. A red eye-catching window that is constantly flashing.
That is the ‘alert pop-up window’ of Boqi Heavy Industries’ market warning system.
The warning without warning made Jack's heart skip a beat. He quickly switched to the technical analysis interface and saw a huge sell order suddenly appear on the market depth chart, like an inexplicable black hole. Devouring the power of buying.
Almost reflexively, he immediately assessed the size and speed of the sell order, and then mentally calculated the possible market chain reactions caused by such a large sell order.
"Put it to the home screen and zoom in!"
Jack said through the voice control system, while using his training to keep his voice calm. As a chief trader, his emotions And every move will affect other people in the hall, so staying calm in any situation is also one of the important skills.
But even he himself did not expect that this forced calmness did not last long.
As Jack Winston's order was issued, the details of the sell order on the technical analysis interface were enlarged, and soon showed large sell-offs from multiple unknown accounts.
The chief trader of Boqi Heavy Industry noticed that although the sources of these selling orders were scattered, it could still be seen that this was a carefully planned sell-off. In addition, the huge amount was enough to disrupt the trading order of Boqi Heavy Industry-related stocks. .
Jack's mind was spinning. He remembered the principles of crisis management that his mentor, the former chief trader who had just retired, repeatedly emphasized in countless simulation trainings and actual combats in the past. But even so, at this moment There was still an uncontrollable surge of uneasiness in his heart.
This uneasiness finally made him press a red button. Suddenly the alarm sounded throughout the trading floor, and an emergency call appeared on the screen in front of him.
"Contact the group headquarters, high-level threat, we may be in big trouble."
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Boqi Heavy Industry Headquarters, Crisis Response Center.
After receiving the news, the 64-year-old president David Calhoun, the head of this federal heavy industry giant, came to the encrypted conference room of the crisis response center with other senior executives of the company.
In fact, he had been woken up from a deep sleep 4 hours ago, and then received bad news about 'our army's defeat'.
After that, he has been participating in an emergency online meeting held by Mrs. Paris of Nutao Group. The other corporate executives participating in the meeting were as confused as him. No one expected this. An armed conflict would have such a result.
In order to organize this 'expedition', various companies under the military-industrial complex not only sent out all their fleets, but also sent most of their main forces - including those precious heavy cruisers and Battleship.
But overnight, these fleets, which were the 'backing ground' for various companies, were completely lost. Therefore, when many people heard the news, their first reaction was to doubt whether the news was wrong.
However, as more and more news came back, including the battle reports sent back by the 23rd and 24th fleets provided by the federal navy, the fact that the combined fleet suffered a major defeat was directly revealed. before their eyes.
This fact has directly brought them to an extremely dangerous situation for many companies in the military-industrial complex, including Nutao Group, Boqi Heavy Industry, and Deep Space Mining.
In this situation, the danger no longer only comes from Atlas Group.
If these fleets as 'muscle' are lost, then the federal government may be secretly 'sharpening' at this moment, planning to take the opportunity to completely get rid of the interference of the military-industrial complex and even stage a 'backlash' drama .
This is also the main reason why Mrs. Paris summoned everyone urgently. They must stay together and think of countermeasures as soon as possible.
It’s just that no one expected that Atlas Group’s counterattack would come so quickly.
At 8:45 local time in the federal capital, everyone who participated in this emergency meeting learned about the news from the securities exchange market through their own channels at about the same time.
Then everyone looked at David Calhoun, whose face turned pale after receiving the news. The latter apologized to Mrs. Paris while maintaining his expression, and left in a hurry. for this online meeting.
Although the news received by David Calhoun or others was that there were "unknown forces" short-selling Poch Heavy Industries.
But even if everyone thinks about it with their appendix, they can all think that this is the counterattack from Atlas.
The atmosphere in the conference room of the Boqi Heavy Industry Crisis Response Center was extremely tense at this time, and even the air seemed to be solidified into a heavy piece of lead.
The data flashing on several virtual screens is like an invisible storm, a large number of selling orders from unknown sources are like a dark cloud, and the stock price curve of Boqi Heavy Industries is declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.
On several other screens, there are news about the defeat of the United Fleet, the quality gate of Boqi Heavy Industry, the death of the whistleblower, and related real-time public opinion monitoring.
Of course, the live broadcast of the 'Real Eye' has just started suddenly. With the help of the Atlas Group's 'mouthpiece', the executives of Boqi Heavy Industry even sent back relevant information through their own channels. Before the news, I saw the wreckage of a battleship with the company's logo printed on it.
Everyone present saw this scene and quickly realized that the 'Eye of Truth' or Atlas Group had deliberately released this scene in order to cooperate with the attacks being launched on the stock exchange market.
"Everyone, we have no time to waste. I can conclude that this is a counterattack from Atlas!"
David Calhoun on the main seat said decisively , although his mental state at the moment is not good after hearing a series of bad news, his voice is still calm and powerful.
After hearing what he said, the chief financial officer of Boqi Heavy Industries also continued to say:
“And they obviously made preparations long in advance, not to mention that these were exposed. The amount of 'black material' in their hands cannot be obtained overnight, but we don't even know how many 'chips' they still have in hand."
The CFO's words were the same as what other executives here were thinking. No one had thought that Atlas's counterattack would come so quickly. In other words, they never thought that Atlas could still counterattack.
After all, in their previous expectations, this isolated company would only be completely defeated by the military-industrial complex that was 'clenched into a fist'. But now, Atlas Group has not only attacked them in the capital market, but also given them a fatal blow in the field of public opinion.
“So we must respond immediately!”
David Calhoun said solemnly: “Let the External Propaganda Department cooperate with the Public Relations Department to issue an official statement to deny these Charges and stated that we will take action to hold these opinion makers accountable ”
Law
To be honest, many executives almost laughed when they heard David Calhoun say the word ‘law’.
Because for them, various laws promulgated by the federal government have basically no binding force. These executives have long forgotten how many years ago they last had awe of the 'law'. .
David Calhoun obviously knew what these executives were thinking, but he was not angry. Instead, he explained calmly: "This is for our shareholders, investors and The brokers in the market continue to have confidence in us, do you understand?”
Executives who were familiar with David Calhoun quickly realized after hearing the tone of his words. The big boss was a little angry, so they didn't dare to say anything more and nodded in agreement.
"Activate the emergency funds and open the authorization to traders, so that they must find ways to stabilize the stock price! At the same time, we will inform our allies of the situation and tell them that if they still sit on the sidelines at this time, Boqi Heavy Industry's today will be theirs. Tomorrow!"
Soon, Boqi Heavy Industries and its strongest allies in the military-industrial complex started to move. These allies obviously understood the principle of "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold".
Moreover, the military-industrial complex had previously thought of killing the Atlas Group, which would allow the other party to slow down and launch a counterattack. No one thought this was just a small fight, even It's very possible that he came here to fight the military-industrial complex until death.
After many companies took action one after another, a large amount of off-market reserve funds flowed into the market through various open and secret channels, and under the operation of traders, they were invested in this smokeless war. During the battle.
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In the securities trading hall of Boqi Heavy Industries, the atmosphere at this moment is completely different from before the opening. Everyone is operating nervously. They are constantly buying their own company's stocks in an attempt to stabilize the stock price.
On the screen nearby, an urgent press conference held by Boqi Heavy Industries was being broadcast live. With the efforts of the public relations team, a large number of securities trading centers, brokerage forums, financial news channels and various media in the federation, They are also being broadcasted.
Responsive measures such as head-on confrontation in the market, hedging in public opinion, and support from allies seem to have slowly stabilized the stock price of Boqi Heavy Industries.
Just when many traders were secretly speculating whether this meant that the crisis would turn around with the company's response, the situation took a turn for the worse again.
A series of red numbers flashed quickly on the main screen, which was a waterfall drop in stock prices. The entire market seemed to have lost its mind at this moment.
In the trading floor, the piercing alarm sounded again. This round of alarm sounded more penetrating than the previous alarm issued by the chief trader Jack Winston.
Every trader's face turned pale. They felt a little at a loss and didn't know what they should do.
“Flash Crash.”
Jack feebly spit out an exclusive noun, and this noun refers to the situation that all traders are least willing to face.
This refers to the phenomenon of extreme price fluctuations in the financial market within a very short period of time. It is usually manifested as the market price of a certain security, commodity or index suddenly falling sharply within a few minutes or seconds.
It may rebound quickly after this, but it may also continue to be depressed, or even collapse to the end and eventually trigger the circuit breaker mechanism.
However, it is 'unfortunate' that Commonwealth Securities canceled the 'circuit breaker' mechanism twelve years ago. At that time, there were still popular conspiracy theories that the military-industrial complex was behind this major rule change. .
Because shortly after the circuit breaker mechanism was cancelled, many companies that did not join the large circle of the military-industrial complex were crushed to death one by one in the securities market
But no matter what the truth of history is What, or what will happen without the circuit breaker guarantee, Jack Winston, the chief trader of Boqi Heavy Industries, can't control that much now.
He quickly regained his composure and quickly launched the highest-level crisis response procedures of the Securities and Exchange Department.
A series of instructions flowed out of his mouth like running water and were quickly executed by the trading team. The algorithmic trading system of Boqi Heavy Industries was also activated to the highest level. The server array equipped with the algorithmic trading system also entered overclocking operation under the settings of the technician. state.
After further improvement in computing power, the trading system began to try to stabilize the market again and absorb panic selling in the market by calculating the optimal buying and selling points.
High-frequency trading strategies are also being enabled without restriction at this moment. The trading system captures market opportunities in milliseconds. Although this is a problem when faced with the new generation of trading systems developed under the leadership of Lilith. An almost impossible battle to win.
At this moment, regardless of position or camp, the trading department of Pochi Heavy Industries, headed by Jack Winston, showed their professionalism and tenacity. Everyone was racing against time and doing their best. Trying to save a situation that has almost fallen into the abyss.
But this battle in the capital market still shows its brutal and bloody side without hesitation.
The war started from the opening, coupled with the fermentation of those negative news, the panic in the market has reached its peak at this moment, any efforts seem insignificant, and the power of the flash crash is beyond their imagination.
Boqi Heavy Industries' stock price fell like a free fall, market liquidity almost disappeared, and all attempts to save it seemed ineffective.
When the time came to 16:00 in the afternoon, the first trading day of the week finally ushered in the closing time.
After a day of hard work and multiple large-scale 'counterattacks', Boqi Heavy Industries' closing stock price still fell to a record low. The company's market value evaporated by more than half in one day, and there was no sign of an unprecedented financial crisis. Appeared in front of them.
In the conference room of the Crisis Response Center of Boqi Heavy Industries, after the closing bell slowly fell, there was only dead silence. David Calhoun clenched his fists and flashed in his eyes. Too unwilling and exhausted.
After seeing the company's closing stock price and market value, many of the other executives in the conference room wondered if they had fallen into some kind of nightmare, but the 'Estimated Dividends for this Year' that had been cut in half on their personal terminals told them, It's all true.
After a long time, David Calhoun came back to his senses. Looking at the shocked executives in front of him, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly.
However, he did not say anything sarcastic, but intended to bring these executives back to their senses and discuss the urgently needed self-rescue plan.
Originally, he planned to give an early warning to Mrs. Paris and other key members of the military-industrial complex, because the targets of the menacing Atlas Group's counterattack were by no means limited to Bochi Heavy Industries.
But in the end, he did not do so, and temporarily ignored the messages from other corporate executives. After all, in his opinion, there was such a big commotion now, and even if he didn't say anything, others should There will be a sense of crisis.
As for those companies that have no sense of crisis and even need to remind themselves?
Hmph. Just come down and sit at a table with Boqi Heavy Industries.
(End of this chapter)