MTL - America’s Road To Wealth-Chapter 2 wolf of wall street

   Chapter 2 The Wolf of Wall Street

  When Anne Hathaway pretends to be calm and normal on the surface.

   But in fact, I feel nervous inside, under the service of two servants and a professional butler.

  In the restaurant of the 7,500-square-foot Central Park luxury apartment.

  While enjoying the beautiful scenery of the park, while eating breakfast.

   Abe Smith, already sitting in his Maybach 62, is about to arrive at JFK International Airport.

   Looking out the window, the street scene of Queens, New York flashed by.

   Abel Smith couldn't help but recall what had happened to him in the past ten months since his rebirth.

  No mistake, Abel Smith, who is twenty years old this year, is actually a reborn person.

  He was originally a Chinese internet writer in 2022.

   When I stayed up all night writing, I couldn't bear it and fell asleep.

   After falling asleep and waking up again, he became an ugly college student from Rice University in Texas, who had just passed the graduation season and received a degree certificate.

   Just when he was panicking, the original body's memory flooded in.

   Having obtained the memory of the original body, he knows that he is now called Abel Smith.

  Father's name is Alexander Smith and mother's name is Emily Smith.

  Alexander Smith, is a typical Texas rancher.

  For generations, my ancestors have been running a large farm in Tarrant County, Texas.

  Smith Farm covers an area of ​​up to 6,500 acres.

  In the farm, a large number of cattle and sheep are raised, and about 50 professional farmers are hired to work on the farm.

   Of course, there are supporting agricultural engineering machinery and equipment and so on.

  The farm produces a large amount of beef, mutton, wool every year, as well as cotton, sorghum, rice and other grains, vegetables and fruits.

  The Smith family earns millions of dollars annually from this farm alone.

  After deducting costs, the annual profit is about millions of dollars.

  So the original Abe Smith, although not a wealthy man, is definitely the only child of a wealthy family.

   More importantly, his father, Alexander Smith, is also one of the 75 members of the American NRA Association Council.

  This identity is even more powerful than Alexander Smith's annual income of one million dollars and being a multi-millionaire.

  The reason is because the full name of the NRA is the National Rifle Association of America.

  As for why Alexander Smith became one of the seventy-five members of the NRA's board of directors, that's another story.

  Through possession, he became an ugly college student of such a background.

  As long as he follows the rules of the red neck and the rules of Texas, he will have no problem living a chic and unrestrained life.

but

   Just when Abe Smith accepted his fate and planned to experience another life in the form of a high-end Texas redneck.

   After rebirth and time travel, he found out.

  My golden finger is here.

   There seem to be two gold fingers.

  One is that he becomes very able to eat, and his body is very strong and good after eating.

   This doesn't seem to be a cheat, but it's definitely not bad.

  Because this kind of strength is not only reflected in the physical aspect.

   is also reflected in the ability to reproduce

   Another special feature is really the golden finger.

   That's what he discovered shortly after his rebirth.

  He can actually see the hidden information behind financial products!

  He tried,

  Using a principal of 1,000 U.S. dollars, he made 30,000 U.S. dollars in a week in the foreign exchange market.

  This discovery immediately made him ambitious.

   Shortly thereafter,

  He took $70,000 and ran to Manhattan, New York despite his parents' objections.

  Because he feels that this ability should be a duck to water on Wall Street.

that's the truth.

  Relying on this ability to consume physical and mental energy, he was out of control when he came to New York.

  He first used the principal of 70,000 US dollars to continue to take risks in the foreign exchange market.

  In one month, the principal changed from $70,000 to $1 million.

   Then he started investing in precious metal futures, mainly London gold and London silver.

   Another month, the stake becomes $10 million.

   It took him three months to officially enter the US stock market.

  During the period, I occasionally went to the international foreign exchange market and the international futures market to trade grass.

   Wait until the end of February this year.

  He's already worth over three hundred million dollars.

   Then he initiated short selling and betting with all his assets through JPMG Bank and Goldman Sachs Bank, which he has been cooperating with.

   The content of the bet is the stock of an Internet listed company that was in full swing before March this year.

  Such as stocks of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, and Yahoo.

   This decision,

  In just a few months, he has already gained a certain reputation within Wall Street, and he has been questioned and ridiculed a lot.

   It is said that even Jim Rogers, one of the founders of Quantum Fund, laughed and said to his friends after hearing his decision:

   "This amazing little guy may have to turn a big somersault this time!"

   Then time entered March.

   March 10, 2000.

  The NASDAQ (Nasdaq Composite Index), which is dominated by technology stocks, climbed to 5048, and at that time Abel Smith's book loss had reached as high as 250 million US dollars.

  If it wasn't for him to put in new deposits many times one after another.

  This loss is enough for him to be liquidated by the bank.

   However, since 1995, the NASDAQ index has been in full swing.

  After March 10, 2000, it was like a fat man who took laxatives.

   began to pour out.

  Although at the beginning, Wall Street market analysts were saying that this was just a correction in the stock market.

   is a technical adjustment.

   Don't panic.

  But the NASDAQ index will open on March 13th.

   It fell from 5038 to 4879, a full drop of 4 percentage points.

  This set off a chain reaction of market sell-offs: investors, funds and institutions began to liquidate.

  In just 6 days, the NASDAQ index lost nearly 600 points.

   From 5050 on March 10th to 4580 on March 15th.

   The worst case, happened on April 3rd.

   This day is the federal government's trial against Microsoft.

  The result of the trial announced that Microsoft is a monopoly and will face punishment next.

  The NASDAQ index, which has been withering for 20 days, fell 300 points on the day, and then started the diving mode.

   By the end of May 2000.

  The Nasdaq index, which once reached 5128 points at the peak, has only 2650 points left.

   At this time, Abel Smith, who shorted more than a dozen large "DETCOM" companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo, etc., began to close his position.

  After the position is closed.

   Total investment of $360 million, doubling him with all kinds of crazy leverage.

   Earned a profit of $1.23 billion.

  At this time, his net worth exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars.

  He shorted "DETCOM", that is, the Nasdaq index, and became famous because of this.

   "The Wall Street Journal" called him "the tough cowboy from Texas."

  The "New York Daily" was even more exaggerated, and the title of its report on him was "The Wolf of Wall Street".

   Relying on this short-selling Nasdaq index transaction, he has initially opened up the situation on Wall Street.

   Then he established his own investment company called "Smith Capital".

  The company was established in June, and it has been two months now.

  The funds controlled by Smith Capital have been 1.5 billion US dollars from the beginning.

  Grow to the current $2.2 billion.

  But in the $2.2 billion fund, there is only one investor.

   That is himself.

   That is to say, for two months, Smith Capital has not accepted the investment requirements of external investors.

   It's not that he wants to eat alone, but that he feels that the time is not yet.

   This is the general operation he has done in the US capital market since his rebirth ten months ago.

   As for everyday life.

   Well, that is, the boring life of the rich in the United States.

  For example, encounters and stories with Anne Hathaway are part of this boring life.

  Since it is said to be a part.

   Then, of course, Anne Hathaway is not the only one.

  (end of this chapter)