Reborn with Consumption System

Han Lie’s pie-in-the-sky plan was halfway successful.

The coal bosses who were transitioning into the financial sector had a great interest in the new fund Han Lie casually mentioned.

However, it wasn’t something they were desperate for.

Understandably, they already had their own private investment products.

The respect for Han Lie mainly came from his money-making ability and status in the circle, so no one would refuse to be friends with him.

But when it comes to substantial interests, their own private investments could earn them full profits, so why accept your exploitation?

When chatting with them, Han Lie remained unfazed and didn’t even ask more about their private investment situation.

Then he returned to Magic Capital and asked Chen Gong to investigate a little, quickly finding out about them.

It was a small private investment firm, not running an institutional account, but through the TY Shanhe Road trading department of Mining Province Securities.

With less than a billion in contributions, leveraging with a 2x brokerage margin, totaling around 2.5 billion. They were quietly building a position in Tesla concept stocks that had already been speculated on.

Pretty bold and courageous, they truly believed in Han Lie’s bull market judgment.

However, their choice of targets was quite mediocre.

When Tesla officially delivered the first batch of Model S to domestic users on April 22nd, the related stocks had all stagnated—real speculation began in February, peaked in March, and by April it was not even wrapping up.

The biggest news had already concluded, and to reactivate the topic and release speculation space required cooperation from national policies and industry dynamics collectively.

But with the bull market approaching, the amplitude narrowed, and the main topics gathering strength, who would have the leisure to go back and eat leftovers?

The conclusion is that new energy vehicle-related concept stocks will follow the rise but won’t rise much.

The coal bosses’ traders clearly underestimated the strength of the bull market, behaving slightly conservatively.

It might also be because of external pressure, forcing them to be conservative.

This long-term positive industry that has crashed back to a suitable position after a round of speculation is still highly secure, hard to lose money on; the only difference is how long it takes to earn how much money.

And since they built a position at a relatively low point, having collected enough low-cost chips, Han Lie was not too convenient to target them.

They had a first-mover advantage, a cost advantage. If Han Lie entered now, it would be like carrying them up on a sedan chair, resulting in nothing.

So, Han Lie chose another route—short selling.

He gathered all the stock accounts of Panzi, Xiaodou, Lao Zhang, Liu Minghao, Sister Jin, and others in his hands, then temporarily diverted the final payment for purchasing Dream Garden, injecting capital into the accounts.

After that, he used the next fund product of Zhongmei as bait, negotiating short selling with major brokerages like Huatai, Guotai, and Haitong.

Plus, the proprietary trading of base camp Citic, able to gather at least 10 million shares of the related stocks.

Simply explained, short selling—

Financing is borrowing money from a broker, short selling is borrowing stocks from a broker.

Brokers have proprietary departments that configure various component stocks.

Clients borrow stocks to sell at a high price for profit, then wait for the stock price to drop, repurchase the same amount, and return it to the broker, forming a closed loop.

Now, Han Lie doesn’t want the stocks, just confirms in advance with the broker, equivalent to asking for favors with his face.

Technically, this was against the rules.

But Han Lie managed to settle the heads of those brokerages with just a few meals separately.

"What are rules? They are for ordinary people to be constrained by!"

"The God Lie’s face must be given by brothers!"

"Whether the next fund is placed with our company or not, I don’t care, it’s not my business to be responsible for it anyway, I just want to be friends with you!"

See, how right was Huang Bo with that saying?

The difference is, after making a name in the financial circle, you’ll encounter more good people and stronger support.

Once the short selling talk was settled, Han Lie could quietly wait for the coal bosses to lift up.

At the high point, directly dump everything, crush the form, and walk away with the profits.

Wait until the stock price drops enough space, then buy back the same amount and return it to the broker.

Though Han Lie’s intention wasn’t to earn much from this matter, but to break the coal bosses’ private investment profit opportunity, yet, since the cost was simply too low, all the elevation work was done by the good brothers for free, earning a light 50%.

For the coal bosses, with the bull market approaching, they certainly couldn’t lose.

So this operation was particularly sly, whoever encountered it would be so angry they’d curse their mother.

Now, do you understand why Han Lie used friends’ personal accounts?

Han Lie had private talks with all the brokerages, no need to worry about confidentiality, even the Magic Capital financial circle couldn’t figure it out, not to mention the wild paths in Mining Province.

The coal bosses were dragged back, could only consider themselves unlucky, certainly couldn’t trace it back to Han Lie.

After messing around for six months, a glance at the profits, damn, not even enough to pay the financing interest.

Then look at Han Lie’s fund, whoa, doubled!

In contrast, surely it would sober them up a bit.

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May 4th, after the holiday, full work resumption.

Today is an important day for Gao Yuan Real Estate’s shareholder meeting.

At the same time, it’s also the day for the second trial of Bai Yuqiu and Gao Shen’s divorce case.

Gao Diaomao didn’t lack effort, he tried several times to persuade Bai Yuqiu, offering very good terms—as he thought.

But Sister Bai was determined to sue, resistant to any enticements.

Gao Diaomao was so angry he smashed his cup, swearing as he walked away.

"Go ahead and sue! Let’s see what you’ll make of it!"