Chapter 731: The Truth
After a quiet night, the imperial financial market burst into life. The trading hall was packed.
People were constantly filling out order forms or signaling to traders on the upper trading floor with complex hand gestures only insiders could understand—everything was in motion.
All eyes were on the top-left corner of the trading board, where Harmony Capital was fixed in a special position. It didn’t rotate like other stocks—it simply displayed the current price.
2.50 Sol. No change yet, but everyone knew that wouldn’t last.
To ensure a strong opening, Richard had personally arranged deals with price-boosting groups. They had committed to investing at least 30 to 50 million today.
With those funds, plus shares subscribed by themselves and the nobles, prices would spike within half an hour.
The first to act were the priority traders. The Gephra Empire also used a trading seat system: only licensed trading seats had the right to trade, and there were priority seats as well—just like in the Federation.
Retail investors often wondered: if they were buying stocks just like the wealthy, why were they always the ones losing?
Put simply, even excluding insider info, ordinary investors couldn’t match the rich in speed. Without access to priority seats, their trades went to the back of the queue.