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Simon had no choice but to nod: "Okay, there's only one game."

Madonna rolled her eyes again, and continued: "Well, it's hard to keep holding back..."

Simon stepped aside directly: "You'd better go to the toilet."

Madonna didn't go, and said reluctantly: "Forget it, he's really a stingy man."

People are often very vulnerable when they are reluctant to go to the toilet.Therefore, in the following performances, although only a few people noticed that Madonna had been drinking water, most of them felt that in the last few shots, Madonna completely expressed the emotions of a female robber who was vicious and inward after a failed robbery. .

Another hour of overtime was unavoidable, but a week later, Madonna and Sean Penn guest starred in a restaurant scene that finally wrapped up.

After the work was over, he again told Simon to help him complete the agreed song as soon as possible, and Madonna and Sean Penn left together.

Tomorrow is the weekend.

It was seven o'clock in the evening when Simon returned to the Palisades mansion.

Janet had prepared dinner very thoughtfully, and during the meal the woman told him that Noah Scott had called three times in a row since five o'clock in the afternoon.

Simon only remembered that the highest point of the S&P 500 before the crash exceeded 330 points, but he was not too impressed with the specific number.

Therefore, last week, on August 8, when the S&P 19 reached 500, Simon again began liquidating the 325 long contracts in the Westeros account. On August 1, that is, this Tuesday, the S&P 8 index broke through 25 points, and Simon also asked Noah Scott to speed up the liquidation.

According to the agreed selling progress, the 1 long contracts in the Westeros account should be cleared today.

but.

This time, Simon was not in a hurry to let Noah Scott establish a short position.

After dinner, Simon came to the study, and Janet followed.After more than three months of operation, although she basically knew it well, the woman was still very curious about how much money her man made.

Taking the initiative to call, Simon felt that Noah Scott seemed to be particularly enthusiastic today.

The two chatted a few words on the phone, and they faxed over a series of transaction reports and accounting data after the liquidation of 1 long contracts was completed.

Today's close, the S & P 500 index has reached 337 points.

Due to the accelerated rise of the S&P 500 index in July and August, it was difficult for Simon to build a position in the lower index range. This time, the average opening point of 1 contracts was 316 points, and the average selling point was about 332 points.

After comprehensive calculation, the average increase per contract is only 16 points, which has not reached the average profit level of the previous two times.But even so, the total profit after the liquidation of 1 contracts reached 8000 million US dollars.

In the end, after deducting various handling fees, Westeros already had 2 million U.S. dollars in its account at this time.

Although it failed to reach the $3 million figure Simon expected.However, in three and a half months, from US$7500 million to US$2 million, the profit was close to 7856%. Even the top elites on Wall Street could not easily achieve such huge profits.

When Simon and Noah Scott talked on the phone, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening in Chicago in the middle of the United States.

However, in a villa in the affluent area of ​​Naperville on the outskirts of Chicago, Noah Scott deliberately sent his cohabiting girlfriend out tonight. At this time, only Noah Scott himself and two other 50-year-olds were in the villa. Many middle-aged people.

Two middle-aged men, one is Nelson Scott, the father of Noah Scott who is the vice president of American Express, and the other is the red-faced middle-aged man who is the CEO of American Express at this time, James Robinson.

He had been quietly listening to Noah Scott's phone call with Los Angeles, and when his son put down the phone, Nelson Scott asked, "How is it?"

Noah Scott shook his head and said, "Let me wait for the order."

"What a cautious little guy." James Robinson was still holding a thick document in his hand, which was Simon's detailed transaction records in recent months. He earned [-] million U.S. dollars in just over three months, so he is indeed cautious. Noah, what do you think he will do next?"

Noah Scott thought for a while, and said: "It's the delivery month again soon, and the next index fluctuation will definitely be very violent. Moreover, Westeros didn't let me sell while continuing to build positions this time, so, He will either stop directly. Or, he should choose to go short. After all, most people now feel that the market has reached the top."

James Robinson shook his head, and said: "Beginning in June, many people thought that the market had peaked, and everyone was setting up short positions, but the result was that a certain guy who was not yet 6 years old made a profit in the blink of an eye. 20 million U.S. dollars. Tsk, 2 million U.S. dollars. And his performance in Hollywood. I went to see those two movies on purpose a few days ago. They were really good, and the box office surprised everyone. I really don’t know that Where did the little guy come from?"

"I heard that I lived in a mental hospital in San Francisco for half a year, and then it became like this," Noah Scott joked, watching the two elders smile, and then said: "Then, Mr. Robinson , what shall we do next?"

Chapter 119 Roller Coaster

When James Robinson heard Noah Scott's question, he showed a hesitant expression.

Simon Westero's previous stock index futures operation, one success may not be a big deal, and two consecutive times can be said to be luck, but three consecutive times is enough to prove that the young man must have something to rely on.

Under such circumstances, if Lehman Brothers followed suit, they would definitely be able to obtain unexpected gains.As the CEO of American Express, the parent company of Lehman Brothers, James Robinson definitely has the spirit of adventure to be able to achieve his current position.

It's just that this kind of behavior is clearly nothing more than standard insider trading.

AmEx bought Lehman Brothers three years ago in order to get involved in the long-planned investment banking field.

Next, if the follow-up operation is really carried out, once the matter is exposed, Lehman Brothers will definitely be investigated by the SEC (Federal Trade Commission), and the company will lose a large number of customers.

Most importantly, other Wall Street investment banks will never let go of the opportunity to drive Amex, a potentially powerful rival, out of the investment banking field.

but.

In just three and a half months, with a principal of US$7500 million and a net profit of more than US$2 million, this kind of huge profit is really hard to resist.

You must know that as a global financial and travel service company, American Express, which currently has a market value of more than US$130 billion and has more than 5 employees, had a net profit of just over US$1987 million in the second quarter of 1.

It is obvious that a young man who is not yet 20 years old has operated in the stock index futures market for more than three months, and his income has already exceeded the quarterly profit of a giant such as American Express in the same period.

After weighing it over and over for a few minutes, James Robinson couldn't resist the temptation after all. He clapped the transaction records of Westeros in his hand, and said to Scott and his son: "I will discuss it with Paul from the board of directors on the weekend. , strive to mobilize a sum of funds before next Monday. Neil, you are in charge of this matter, Noah is the trader, and the two of you report directly to me personally. Remember, you must be cautious and careful, you should all know this The consequences of the revelation."

……

Los Angeles.

In the mansion in Palisades, Simon hung up Noah Scott's phone and leaned on the leather chair thoughtfully.

Janet had been sitting on the large desk in front of Simon in a disfigured way just now, holding a few reports from Noah Scott in her hand, and flipping through them with two beautiful naked feet dangling .

Seeing that Simon hung up the phone, Janet tiptoed over and tapped on Simon's leg, and said, "Now, I believe that it won't take many years for you to realize those three wishes."

The thoughts that hadn't come together were interrupted. Simon just smiled and held down the woman's playful little foot on his leg, scratched the sole of her foot a few times, and said, "Didn't you believe it before?"

Janet smiled and took back her feet, and said: "Of course I believe it. But, I didn't expect you to make so much money. Our family, starting from my great-grandfather, has accumulated wealth of only 100 billion in more than 20 years." Just dollars."

Simon said: "But I definitely don't have the ability to promote the federal abolition of inheritance tax, so your family is better."

When the love relationship between Simon and Janet was exposed in the first half of the year, there were reports in newspapers that the Johnston family was pushing for the abolition of inheritance tax in Australia.It can affect the fundamental taxation system of a country, which is the real deep foundation.

Now, although he has a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, once Simon's wealth is exposed, he may be more likely to be just a "fat sheep" in the eyes of many people.

Simon is very aware of this too.

As a reborn person, accumulating wealth is not too difficult.

The easiest way to put it, Microsoft's market capitalization is only about $10 billion now.Simon took out $20 to buy Microsoft stock and held it until 2000. When he sold it at the highest point of Microsoft's $6000 billion market value, he could become a billionaire immediately.

20 US dollars, the North American property market bubble is still at its highest point, and many middle-class families can probably raise it as long as they sell their properties.But they have absolutely no way of knowing that this money could make them billionaires more than a decade later.

Simon did.

However, if it is simply to grab wealth, even if Simon earns 1000 billion U.S. dollars, if he lacks the social influence to match this wealth, he will only be a "fat sheep" at the level of [-] billion U.S. dollars That's all.

Therefore, Simon was not too complacent about the huge sum of money he earned from the stock index futures market.

Just to get rid of the 'fat sheep' status, he still has a long way to go.

Seeing that Simon fell silent, Janet waited patiently for a moment, then scratched the man's leg with her foot, and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Simon said truthfully: "Fat sheep."

"Hehe," Janet laughed, and said, "Do you feel it?"

Simon wondered: "What?"

"Noah," Janet blinked, and said, "He's so attentive today, there's obviously something wrong with him."

Hearing Janet's reminder, Simon once again captured some of the thoughts in his mind just after hanging up the phone, and immediately laughed, saying: "Three times in a row, the $7500 million has been turned to 2 million. If Lehman Brothers can Enduring not to follow up, Wall Street is not Wall Street.”

Janet asked, "So what are you going to do?"

"As long as the operations of Lehman Brothers don't affect our interests, it's okay to let them make some money," Simon said, then shook his head and said, "However, this seems unlikely."

If Lehman Brothers, which is backed by American Express, follows up, the amount of funds will definitely exceed the principal of less than US$3 million in the account of Westeros.

If it has been a long-term operation right now, maybe it’s nothing, and if it is followed up, it will be followed up.But the stock market crash at the end of October, the situation must be different.

In Simon's memory, during the 1987 crash, the U.S. government's rescue measures were very timely and effective, and it took only a week for the North American stock market to stabilize.Moreover, the bottom of the S&P 500 index at around 200 points was even more short-lived.

The last short contract in Westeros' plan can only be closed at the bottom of 200 points in order to obtain the maximum profit.However, the single-day contract throughput of the stock index futures market is limited after all.

After the stock market crash, if Lehman Brothers also established a large number of short positions, they would definitely take the lead in arranging their own contracts to close their positions, and the contracts held by Westeros may only be able to trade after the index rebounds.At that time, the profits obtained will definitely shrink significantly.

Janet didn't bother seeing Simon lost in thought again.

After thinking about it for a while, Simon said, "Forget about it, let's talk about it after "Pulp Fiction" is finished."

According to the plan, "Pulp Fiction" will be completed in mid-September, and Simon still has half a month to operate.

Moreover, the matter of movies is the most important thing to Simon.

Accumulating a lot of wealth, if Simon wants not to be regarded as a 'fat sheep', he must have considerable power.

Hollywood happens to be the foundation of power that Simon chose.

If he can acquire this film industry base with world-class influence step by step, coupled with the huge wealth he has accumulated, Simon can truly get rid of his status as a "fat sheep" and become a big player who can influence this country and the whole world.

When Janet heard Simon say this, she was a little puzzled: "We can completely withdraw all the money in the futures account. At that time, Noah can find a corner to shed his tears."

"No way," Simon shook his head and said with a smile, "Doing this now is completely equivalent to telling them that we are going to change to a futures broker. Wall Street is actually that big, and you don't think Lehman Brothers will be able to find out about us. Where do you open an account?"

Janet thought for a while, and said helplessly, "It seems that this is indeed the case."

……

Before I knew it, another weekend passed quickly.

Fast forward to September.

Over the weekend, under the personal arrangement of American Express CEO James Robinson, Lehman Brothers mobilized 5 million U.S. dollars at one time, intending to secretly follow the operation of Westeros.

However, what surprised Noah Scott was that compared to the previous three heavy positions, Simon only asked him to establish 337 short contracts between 330 points and 6000 points in the new week, and it was 12 Short contracts for the month.

The bulls have turned bears, which is indeed what Noah Scott expected.

However, the short position of 6000 contracts only took up 30% of the funds in Westeros' account, which was far lower than the 80% position that had been maintained before.The people in charge who originally mobilized a large amount of funds and wanted to follow Simon to operate an insurance operation were completely confused for a while.

A 30% position ratio is completely a very conservative long-term position strategy.

The entire Wall Street understands at this time that after a five-year bull market, the North American stock market will inevitably turn downward.Therefore, the position held by Westeros at this time is very similar to a finishing act of taking as much soup as it can after eating and drinking.

Is it.

Just as I was about to enter the arena, the feast was already over?

If it is unable to obtain huge profits in the short term, American Express will definitely not be able to keep a huge sum of US$5 million in a futures account for a long time.

Even Noah Scott wondered for a while whether his black market operations were noticed by Simon, and the other party would do this.But that doesn't make sense either.If Simon had sensed that Lehman Brothers was going to follow suit, he would have switched brokers.

There's no reason not to make the money you can make.

In this hesitation, before the end of the first week of September, the North American stock market took a sharp turn. In the following week, the S&P 9 index plunged from above 500 points to around 330 points.

Still a drop of 20 points.

With a contract multiplier of $500, the profit and loss figure for a single contract reaches $1.

As a result, in just one week, the book profit of Westeros' 6000 short contracts exceeded 6000 million US dollars.

However, the book profits in the account of Lehman Brothers are even more generous, and Noah Scott built a position exactly at twice the size of Westeros.After Simon stopped building positions, he couldn't resist buying another 3000 contracts, which brought the short position in the Lehman Brothers account to 1 contracts.

In just one week, Lehman Brothers accounted for a paper profit of more than $1 million.

however.

This time, Simon did not issue a sell order.

Compared with Simon's stability, Scott and his son, who were personally in charge of this operation, couldn't calm down at all.

A profit of US$1 million is almost equivalent to the quarterly net profit of the entire American Express Company.And, most importantly, as direct project leaders and traders, such a profit also means that they will receive huge year-end bonuses.

Moreover, it would be fine if the S&P 500 keeps going down, but as the third Thursday in September, which is the final delivery day, approaches, the S&P 9, which had plummeted, began to rise again.

雷曼兄弟持有的1万5000份合约，意味着标普500指数每1点涨跌就代表着750万美元的盈亏。

As a result, the S&P 500 index began to rise step by step from 310 points, watching a sum of '$750 million' disappear. When the S&P 500 index rose back to a high of 320 points, Simon still did not issue any trading orders, including the CEO of American Express. Including Robinson, all the top executives of American Express who knew about this operation could no longer calm down, and Noah Scott finally began to close his positions.

But the S&P 500's rally still hasn't stopped.

当雷曼兄弟匆匆完成了1万5000份合约的清仓操作时，标普500指数已经涨回了326点。原本超过1亿5000万美元的盈利，雷曼兄弟最后拿回的利润就只有5600万美元。

5600 million U.S. dollars, which is obviously a very considerable profit, but compared with the initial book profit of 1 million U.S. dollars, it has shrunk too much after all.

Then, the development of the matter was once again beyond the expectations of everyone in the company.

On September 9, the third delivery day of stock index futures in 17, the S&P 1987 index soared to 500 points, but then it did not continue to rise, but began to fall again.