I looked at my father Jackie Chan in 1988

In the securities company.

Ji Sheng was talking to Jack Zhao about shorting crude oil futures.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the office door.

Boom, boom, "Mr. Zhao, Mr. Paul is looking for you."

Jack Zhao hurriedly said, "Please come in."

Not long after, a tall white man with brown hair and high nose bridge walked in the door. This man was about two meters tall, in his forties, and he was quite handsome. As soon as he came in, he spread his hands, "Dear Zhao , I passed near Wall Street and came here to see you."

Jack Zhao came out from behind the desk and hugged Mr. Paul, "Paul, I haven't seen you for a month, but I miss you to death."

Ji Sheng sat there without speaking.

After the two hugged, Jack Zhao greeted Paul to sit down, and introduced Ji Sheng and Paul to each other, "Paul, this is my businessman friend from China, Mr. Ji, one of the small shareholders of Paul Fourth TV Network, worth several thousand Wan oh."

Ji Sheng didn't know that the Fourth TV Network was the later famous Fox Broadcasting Company.

"Hi Mr. Paul."

"Mr. Ji, hello."

Ji Sheng and Paul shook hands.

After the two met, Jack Zhao asked, "Paul, aren't you in Los Angeles?"

Paul spread his hands and said: "Recently, the company is preparing for a cartoon, and there are several voice actors auditioning here in New York. I will accompany the director to cast roles."

"That's right." Jack Zhao said something, then smiled and said, "It just so happens that you're here, are you interested in buying some stock futures?"

Paul half-jokingly said, "Otherwise, do you think I'm here to see you?"

Jack Zhao laughed out loud.

Ji Sheng also pursed his lips, thinking that this Paul is quite interesting.

After chatting for a while, Paul asked, "Do you have any good stock or futures recommendations?"

Jack Zhao said instinctively: "Crude oil has not been trending recently... Forget it, I'll recommend something else to you."

Paul asked curiously, "Since crude oil futures are trending well, why do you recommend others?"

Jack Zhao couldn't help but look at Ji Sheng, then shook his head with a wry smile.

Ji Sheng knew it at a glance. Jack Zhao really wanted to recommend Paul to buy crude oil futures, but he just shorted crude oil futures with 100 times leverage of $[-] million. Now it is not good to recommend other customers to buy in front of him.

He has a good impression of Jack Zhao Ting, and he doesn't want the other party to make a mistake in recommending him, which may lead to losing his job.

Although Wall Street stockbrokers look bright on the surface, in fact, if they make a major mistake, they are likely to be swept out of the house.

Ji Sheng took the initiative and said, "Maybe it's because I shorted crude oil futures with 100 times the leverage of [-] million US dollars."

"What? Are you shorting crude oil futures with 100 and [-] times leverage?" Paul was taken aback. At first, he thought Ji Sheng was an ordinary Chinese. After all, in the current impression of beautiful Chinese, Huaxia is very poor and backward, so it is natural. , Huaxia people are also unlikely to be rich.

But Ji Sheng offered to short crude oil with 100 times leverage of [-] million US dollars, which made Paul realize that the young Chinese in front of him was a rich man.

The sharp contrast was what surprised Paul.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Paul reached out to shake Ji Sheng's hand again, and said with interest, "Crude oil futures are trending so well recently, why are you going short?"

Ji Sheng smiled and said, "I thought it would fall, so I sold it short."

Paul looked at Jack Zhao, "Zhao, Mr. Ji knows about futures?"

How can Jack Zhao lose face of his motherland in front of others, pinching his nose and saying: "Well, he has some personal opinions on futures."

What he said was ambiguous. He didn't say that Ji Sheng knew a lot about futures, and of course he didn't deny that he didn't know how to do it.

But Paul's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Since Mr. Ji dared to short crude oil with 50 times the leverage, I think he has a certain degree of confidence. In this way, I will follow [-] and give me [-] times the leverage."

Jack Zhao's face turned green when he heard it, and he thought to himself, isn't this a scam? Later, the price of crude oil has been rising all the way, and Paul, his loyal customer, lost money. Can't he be blamed?The blame is on the one hand, because I am afraid of finding someone else as a broker.

"Do you want to stop thinking about it?" Jack Zhao hurriedly dissuaded him.

Paul knocked on the table, "Don't think about it anymore, I remember that there is a proverb in your Huaxia, which is called the opportunity never to come again, since Mr. Ji dared to use 100 million US dollars to short crude oil, I think he has a certain degree of confidence, I only spend 50 Ten thousand dollars, even if you lose as much as Mr. Ji, what is there to be afraid of?" He said, looking at Ji Sheng, "Ji, do you think I'm right?"

Ji Sheng said to himself: "You made the most sensible decision."

Smart dick.

Jack Zhao was about to vomit blood, thinking that you, a layman, led my clients astray.

But both Ji Sheng and Paul strongly demanded to short crude oil futures, and Jack Zhao couldn't say anything more, so he had to go through the formalities for them.

Paul left after shorting crude oil. Before leaving, he and Ji Sheng exchanged contact information. Rich people always get to know each other.

If Ji Sheng only shorted tens of thousands of dollars of crude oil futures today, perhaps Paul would not take any notice of it at all, but he shorted 2000 million crude oil futures at once, and directly put out a deposit of 100 million dollars. How could such strength prevent Paul from taking the initiative to make friends? one time?

If you have money, you will be respected wherever you go.

This is especially true when the beautiful country is still a capitalist country.

For example, after Ji Sheng shorted $100 million in crude oil futures, Jack Zhao's boss was alarmed and came out to chat with him in person, promising him various benefits, and wanted him to become a long-term customer of the company.

Ji Sheng chatted for an hour or two, and it was near noon that he thought of going to Sotheby's to register for the auction, and then he left.

Before leaving, he told Jack Zhao: "Mr. Zhao, you must not recommend others to buy crude oil futures recently, trust me."

Jack Zhao sent him to the door of the company, and he felt disapproving when he heard this sentence. After all, he is a professional securities broker, and Ji Sheng is a layman, but he said calmly on the surface: "Okay, I will listen to you." .”

Ji Sheng left without saying anything.

Just at this time, Jack Zhao had another client come over.

"Zhao, the recent upward trend in crude oil futures is good, buy some for me?"

"Okay... hey, why don't you buy crude oil these days, I recommend you to buy some other stock futures."

"Row."

Jack Zhao didn't know why he was obviously optimistic about the continued rise in crude oil futures prices, but in the end he still didn't let his clients buy crude oil futures. Maybe it was because what Ji Sheng said before leaving touched him.

……

Introduced by Jack Zhao, Ji Sheng went to Sotheby's Auction House and registered according to the procedures.

Then he went back to the hotel.

The next day, I received a call from Jack Zhao, saying that the price of crude oil futures had risen to 24 US dollars, and asked if I should short it now.

Ji Sheng rushed to the securities company again.

As a result, it took him an hour or two to brush his teeth, wash his face and go out. When he rushed to the securities company, the crude oil futures price ushered in a new breakthrough, rising to 24.

In the securities company.

Jack Zhao said to Ji Sheng with a wry smile: "You have also seen how fierce the price of crude oil has risen, do you still decide to continue shorting?"

Sitting there drinking coffee, Ji Sheng said decisively, "Continue to short."

Jack Zhao sighed and had no choice but to help Ji Sheng short crude oil futures.

……

March 22.

Crude oil futures prices have risen slightly again, reaching the price of 24.

Jack Zhao looked at the data changes on the computer screen and his face turned pale. He helped Ji Sheng and Paul short at 24:24, but now the price has risen to 32:16, which means that Ji Sheng has already lost [-]. More than ten thousand dollars, Paul is not much better, the loss is slightly less, but still [-].

It's okay for Ji Sheng to lose money, after all, he insisted on going short.

But Paul is a loyal client of Jack Zhao, and he lost $16 all of a sudden. He was heartbroken. The total deposit was only $50. If he lost any more, he would be forced to liquidate his position.

……

March 23.

Today's crude oil futures price fell slightly by US$[-] in the morning, and Jack Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But in the afternoon, the futures price rose back to 24 US dollars again.

Jack Zhao's heart was in his throat, he was afraid that Ji Sheng and Paul would lose everything if the rise continued.

Fortunately, the final closing price stabilized at 24:[-].

Jack Zhao returned home with a heavy heart. He already had a premonition that the price of crude oil would rise again when he woke up tomorrow, and he didn't know how to explain it to Paul.

……

On the night of March 23, around nine o'clock.

A tanker named "Exxon Valdez" set off from Alaska carrying [-] million liters of oil.

The sound of the long siren resounded throughout the waters of Alaska.

The sailors in the cabin didn't even realize what kind of huge risk they would face this time.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Except for the staff who presided over the operation of the tanker, everyone else has fallen asleep.

Finally, the time came to March 24th.

It looked like half past five in the morning.

The oil tanker slammed into the reef heavily, making a loud noise, and the entire oil tanker was torn apart instantly, and countless black oil gushed out.

The people on board panicked.

The people in their sleep were startled awake, shouting in panic one by one.

……

More than seven in the morning.

Jack Zhao got up and washed up as usual, and then sat at the dining table with his wife and son to have breakfast.

Unlike typical beautiful Chinese people eating, Jack Zhao's family still maintains the habit of eating porridge in China.

The TV was on and playing the news.

Jack Zhao sighed and was in no mood to drink porridge, "Oh."

"Old Zhao, what's the matter?" His wife asked with concern.

The seven or eight-year-old son also watched.

Jack Zhao frowned and said, "Aren't you worried about my two clients? Nanhui's friend took out 100 million US dollars and shorted crude oil futures with 50 times leverage. Even my long-term client Paul also shorted [-]. But the recent rise in crude oil futures is so good, if they rise again today, they are likely to force liquidation, what do you think?"

His wife held the chopsticks and said, "It's really not possible, you let them take the initiative to cut their positions, so as to save a little loss."

Jack Zhao said helplessly, "I'll contact them later..."

Before he could finish speaking, a female announcer suddenly reported an earth-shattering news report on the TV: "In an emergency, a cruise ship in Alaska crashed into a reef, causing a large-scale oil spill..."