Volume 4 Crazy Growth 2017 Chapter 816: Mantis Catching Cicada
However, the market is changing rapidly and things are obviously not that simple.
The many institutions that joined forces to set up the dragon gate formation seemed to be jointly sniping Dongsheng Investment from entering the market and forcing it to retreat. However, it did not have any blocking effect on Dongsheng Investment's entry at all.
Such a big fuss was made, ostensibly for Dongsheng Investment, but in fact, there were people who wanted to take advantage of the situation to do something.
To put it bluntly, they were not on the same side from the beginning, and many of them were speculators who wanted to muddy the waters and then take advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters.
After all, just the news that "Dongsheng Investment bought a large amount of BYD" is enough to make a lot of articles on the news front, relying on the four words "Dongsheng Investment" which has been in the limelight in recent days.
Especially for retail investors who always follow the crowd, the grassroots identity of "Zhou Dongsheng", the newly-crowned billionaire, is inherently easy for grassroots to resonate with, and it is very easy for them to form a herd mentality and blindly follow the crowd into the market.
After all, even Zhou Dongsheng is optimistic about it, does it mean that this stock still has a lot of prospects? Just relying on this simple and crude market logic is enough to lure some retail investors into the market.
However, for the many institutions that are lurking here, this is undoubtedly not in their interests. As the saying goes, the market is always a situation where there are more people than porridge, and no matter when, when someone makes money, there will inevitably be someone who loses money.
To this end, a not-so-sophisticated but easy-to-follow plan naturally came into being. Since Zhou Dongsheng had so blatantly offered himself up to be used as a gun, wouldn't it be a lack of respect for him if he wasn't used?
As a result, many institutions joined forces and launched an empty city strategy of 100,000 sell orders, seemingly trying to dissuade Zhou Dongsheng from leaving, but in fact, they were targeting the chips in the hands of retail investors.
After all, for such a large blue chip stock, even after 16 years of additional issuance, its total share capital circulating in the market is only about 2.728 billion shares. The top ten shareholders have already taken nearly 1.9 billion shares, accounting for the vast majority of the market share.
Among this part of stocks, except for some restricted stocks that have not been released, it is basically impossible for them to be circulated in the market. Either hold them for a long time or choose to go for bulk transactions.
The rest are the stocks circulating in the market, which are approximately 700 million shares. Among them, except for hundreds of institutions that have divided up nearly 300 million shares, the last part of more than 400 million circulating shares is all held by a large number of retail investors.
Although this is a plate worth hundreds of billions, given its rock-solid shareholding structure, whether it is Brother Boatman or the famous Buffett and others, these shareholders already control nearly 70% of the shares.
Unless these major shareholders reduce their holdings, the stocks circulating on the market will always remain at a low level. It is naturally not easy to get more cheap chips.
Under normal circumstances, the fluctuations of this kind of blue-chip stocks are generally not too large, but with Zhou Dongsheng as an excuse, it would naturally be much easier to follow the trend and make some fuss.
Therefore, they first smashed the market by singing bearish slogans, and together created a dark cloud-covered market situation, which caused many retail investors who did not know the reason to panic and sell without knowing why.
While Dongsheng Investment was buying in large quantities, other institutions naturally could not sit idly by and secretly withdrew their sell orders while placing buy orders.
The "magical 2:30" arrived late, and when it was close to closing, the wind direction changed suddenly, and a large number of buy orders continued to appear to sweep the market upward, forming a wave of siege on retail investors, and dividing up a large number of chips on the market in an instant.
The speed was so fast that even Zhang Xiaoguang didn't have time to react. BYD's stock price had already soared and almost created a wave of floor-to-ceiling market. It finally closed up by 8.3%!
With so many ups and downs and such an overwhelming plot, some retail investors didn't even have time to react and sold their chips in a daze.
Even Zhang Xiaoguang realized belatedly that he had been used as a gun when reviewing the situation. Oh no, to be more precise, it was his boss who was used as a gun.
After all, the market has always been willing to pay for the celebrity effect. Various hot money and individual investors have many fans, let alone Zhou Dongsheng?
I just didn't expect that I didn't even work on my own chive garden, but gave outsiders the opportunity to pluck all the chives...
After coming back to his senses, Zhang Xiaoguang was somewhat at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and then he conveyed the matter to Zhou Dongsheng.
Zhou Dongsheng listened with great interest and couldn't help but sigh, "Good fellow, it turns out that people who play tactics are all filthy-minded. They have even plotted against me, but it doesn't matter..."
"I am not trying to take shortcuts to gain short-term profits, but I am preparing to make a real long-term investment. Conservatively speaking, I will not sell it within three to five years."
Zhou Dongsheng said nonchalantly, forgetting that before this, he was a complete speculator.
At the same time, Zhou Dongsheng felt a little guilty when thinking of the group of retail investors who were innocently implicated by him. In that case, he would give you a taste of the sweetness.
I've given you the opportunity, it's up to you whether you can seize it!
Zhou Dongsheng smiled brightly and said to Zhang Xiaoguang, "You can also try to leak some of my original words to the public without violating any rules. Just consider it as a token of my appreciation."
"In addition, the blue chip stock of Moutai, the national liquor, is also included in the long-term holding target. The funds will be allocated to you later. Keep a low profile this time and don't become the target of public criticism . I don't want to be invited for tea..."
Zhou Dongsheng said casually that it was just to add some additional business to the group. After all, you can't lose money by buying blue-chip stocks. To some extent, Zhou Dongsheng was also "casting a wide net to catch more fish."
It’s just that the net he cast had a clear purpose, and the fish he caught were all big fish.
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The next day, on the other side of the ocean, Tesla, the world's leading new energy company, surged 3.26%, setting a new historical high. Its intraday market value even exceeded US$51 billion!
This means that Tesla is one step ahead of General Motors and is crowned the largest automaker in the United States!
The global stock market has always been a ripple effect, so the shock caused by this news was naturally transmitted to the A-share market. Affected by it, the entire new energy sector was linked, and stocks such as BYD and Great Wall rose accordingly.
The global new energy sector is showing a steady upward trend, and for Zhou Dongsheng, who is betting on both sides, it is undoubtedly an easy way to make a net profit on paper.
After all, don't forget that the US$1 billion private equity fund Zhou Dongsheng got from Mr. Duan, in addition to investing in Bitcoin, also invested heavily in Tesla.
The same is true for Dongsheng's overseas investment business, and Lu Sifang also reports the progress and profits to Zhou Dongsheng on a regular basis.
Now, as a high-ranking official stationed abroad for the group, Lu Sifang's life is extremely comfortable.
Ever since the market value of Bitcoin reached the US$2,000 mark, differences began to emerge between the long and short sides of the market, and the market entered a period of volatile ups and downs.
In this market with no limits on price fluctuations, daily fluctuations can easily amount to hundreds of US dollars. It's a heart-pounding game. For retail investors who enter the market late, it is undoubtedly a gamble.
However, for Lu Sifang, who holds the low-priced chips, he is sitting on the Diaoyutai, watching the ups and downs , and I remain unmoved!
Even if there is no limit on the rise and fall, can it still be withdrawn in one step to the point where it will cause losses? This kind of thing is very likely to happen to some obscure virtual currencies.
However, when it comes to Bitcoin, the probability of such a black swan event occurring is undoubtedly much smaller. Once it happens, it will undoubtedly mean the collapse of the entire virtual currency market.
After all, the role that Bitcoin plays in the entire virtual currency system is just like the role that gold plays in the monetary system. The two can be said to be similar in nature.
The price of gold may fluctuate greatly, but as long as civilization exists, it will never fall to the point where it is worthless. Otherwise, there would not be the saying "gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times".
The same is true for Bitcoin. Perhaps only when civilization regresses and the Internet no longer exists, will virtual currency disappear in an instant like a bubble...
In the face of such an extreme black swan event, these are obviously just trivial matters. If it really comes to that, I'm afraid no one will care about these small problems.
Therefore, despite the fierce game between the bulls and bears in the Bitcoin market, the market value of Bitcoin is still rising steadily, and the daily trading volume continues to remain at around US$1 billion. The market is unprecedentedly active.
"Chairman, it's just a matter of time before Bitcoin reaches 3,000 US dollars..." After Lu Sifang gave a concise report on his work, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. A mere 3,000 US dollars was nothing for Bitcoin. The madness of this sickle in the currency circle had obviously just begun to show its edge.
"Pay attention to confidentiality measures, especially the management of secret keys. If something goes wrong, all efforts will be wasted. And Lao Lu, many times in life, people go astray because of a single thought..."
"I hope you won't let me down." Zhou Dongsheng said in a calm but meaningful tone.
As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts. The huge profits in the gray area of virtual currency are undoubtedly the biggest test of human nature. It is not surprising even if people kill and rob for this purpose.
In Zhou Dongsheng's limited knowledge, ever since Bitcoin became popular, news of various thefts related to it has become commonplace. How many of these thefts were caused by insiders?
Therefore, it would not be excessive for Zhou Dongsheng to give him a little warning. Lu Sifang was startled when he heard this, and instantly sobered up from the joy of making money while lying down. He then quickly expressed his loyalty.
"Chairman, rest assured. I, Lu Sifang, will never allow anything that would harm the interests of the company to happen. Also... my family is in China. Chairman, you know me. I'm not that kind of person..."
Although this feeling is not pleasant, Lu Sifang can understand his boss's concerns by putting himself in his boss's shoes. After all, in the financial industry, the distance from crime is often only a fine line.
Therefore, there are jokes circulating in the industry such as "clowns are in halls, masters are in prison" and "small hermits hide in the wild, big hermits hide in prison", which are similar to the accounting industry (funny).
For a veteran like Lu Sifang, it's not that he has not been tempted before, but so far, he has always adhered to his bottom line.
This is nothing more than a question of trade-offs, it's just that some people choose the former, while he chose the latter.
"Very good, it proves that I was right about you. As long as you can let me rest assured, then you can rest assured too. I will never treat a meritorious official like you unfairly..."
After hitting him with a stick, Zhou Dongsheng casually gave him a sweet date. As the saying goes, the simplest way is the best. This trick is simple and crude, but it is indeed effective.
"Of course. Being able to serve the chairman is a blessing that many people would never dream of. I believe that the best decision I have made in my life is to follow the chairman!"
Lu Sifang said this with great righteousness . Even though they were separated by an ocean and there was a time difference of more than ten hours, it still did not prevent this deafening flattery from rumbling in the sky.
It even made Zhou Dongsheng's heart waver. It seemed that he needed to think more about the matter of the head of this group. It seemed that ability was not the first consideration.
On the contrary, it is this flattery...ah, no, it is loyalty that is more important.
No hurry, no hurry. After a while of inspection, Zhou Dongsheng shook his head and said, "That's it. It's getting late over there. Go to bed early..."
After exchanging a few pleasantries, he hung up the phone.
Before Zhou Dongsheng could savor the moment, a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts. Perhaps feeling that his "position was no longer secure", Zhang Xiaoguang rushed in without stopping, a hint of joy on his face. It was obvious from his expression that there was good news.
"Chairman, Pengcheng BYD has agreed to cooperate with us and has enthusiastically invited us to visit its factory and discuss the cooperation plan in detail..."
Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but perk up when he heard this, and asked with great interest: "Oh? Is there a chance to meet the boatman brother?"
Zhou Dongsheng has long been fascinated by this hand-rubbing maniac, whether it is the glorious deeds of his hand-rubbing battery production line or the fact that it took only a few years to become the number one battery manufacturer in China and the second in the world.
Anyone who knows him a little bit will find it hard not to admire this big man who is dedicated to industrial manufacturing, and Zhou Dongsheng is no exception.
Regardless of honor, wealth or social status, this tycoon has undoubtedly reached a certain height, and he once won the title of China's richest man in 2009. He is indeed very powerful.
If there was a chance to meet such a big industrialist, Zhou Dongsheng would naturally be happy to go and investigate in person.
"If Mr. Jay Chou were to personally go over and inspect the place, I think they would be able to meet this requirement..."
