Chapter 323: Freedom to Fire

There's a famous saying on Wall Street: Buy in fear.
Everyone knows this principle, and everyone treats it as gospel.
But when true, all-consuming apocalyptic fear descends, 99 out of 100 people will be paralyzed with fear, unable to move an inch.
Because one wrong step could lead to utter ruin.
Even professional investment institutions are frantically selling, cutting their losses and leaving the market in a state of utter despair.
In this hellish scenario, even throwing in hundreds of billions of dollars might only give some stocks a brief resurgence, while many more will continue their descent into the abyss.
As President Emily Karen Mok said, this is a minefield of death.
Countless companies are reduced to ashes every day in this minefield.
"So, the final result is that they'll lose everything, and we will win again, as always."
The president picked up a glass of Diet Coke, downed it in one gulp, and a confident smile spread across his face.
The aides were speechless, because logically speaking, what the president said wasn't wrong.
In this minefield of the stock market, fraught with danger, who could invest accurately and unscathed?
It was simply an impossible task, unless… unless someone could truly foresee the future.
But how could such a person exist in this world?
The aides forced smiles, echoing the president's self-aggrandizement, but a sense of foreboding grew wildly within them like vines, almost suffocating their hearts.
The US stock market was like a collapsing black hole.
Anyone who stepped in would be sucked into that all-consuming black vortex.
But…
What if it was Fang Huan's investment?
What if…
They really do possess the means to defy fate?
***
“Chairman Su, this is the current overall situation of the US stock market.”
At Fanghuan Investment headquarters, a sea of ​​data unfolded before Su Hao.
For laymen, the overall trend of the US stock market is just an appetizer; the three major America indices are enough.
But for an institution of their caliber, that's merely the start of the real in-depth analysis.
“As per your request, all data has been thoroughly analyzed:
Total market capitalization data, sub-indicators for each sector, market internal structure indicators, investor sentiment index, volatility of related bonds…
All the key information regarding market liquidity is here.”
Su Hao's gaze swept across the torrent of data. He was no longer the novice he once was.
With just a glance, the entire market's trajectory was clearly presented in his mind.
"To sum it up in one sentence, this is a veritable inferno," a trader added.
"Not the fiery passion of a bull market, but the kind of inferno where you throw real money in and it doesn't even make a sound, it just burns to ashes."
Right now, pouring money into the US stock market is no different than throwing bundles of banknotes into a steel furnace.
In fact, the US itself has already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the market to save it, and what's the result?
It evaporated without a trace, without even a sound.
"So, the only way to prevent your money from burning in the fire is to pan for gold in the sand," Su Hao said calmly.
“We must defuse the minefield like we're clearing mines, precisely identifying which are the ticking time bombs and which are the gold mines buried beneath the rubble.”
“Yes, Chairman Su. But the problem is, this is countless times harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
However, the only good news is that no matter how much money we invest, what we buy, or how we buy it, the Americans have given us the green light, promising not to interfere.”
This is practically unheard of.
Normally, such a massive influx of funds into the market would trigger regulatory mechanisms, forcibly suspending trading.
But this time, the Americans, under the guise of “market rescue,” have granted them supreme privileges—the freedom to fire!
This means they can, like the US government before, dump hundreds of billions of dollars into the market at once without any legal trouble.
"To be honest, this is pretty outrageous."
The trader couldn't help but complain.
"Governments directly intervening with massive amounts of money to bail out the market has happened before.
But having a foreign capital institution implement 'quantitative easing' on behalf of the US government is absolutely unprecedented in financial history."
But a barely perceptible smile played on Su Hao's lips.
What was hell for others was, for him, a long-awaited paradise.
As long as he could find the real gold mines, this would be the greatest opportunity in history.
He had longed to enter this market for a long time.
And now, all the shackles that had bound him, all the watchful eyes that had been watching him, vanished in an instant.
His long-suppressed, almost boiling investment desire could finally be unleashed!
"Chairman Su, these are the preliminary shortlisted targets we've compiled."
Su Hao took the document and opened to the first page.
What he saw was flames soaring into the sky.
It was as if the paper itself was burning, radiating scorching heat.
He expressionlessly turned to the next page.
The situation here was slightly better.
“I heard that although the Americans have opened up investment to us, they still have a condition?”
“Yes. They're afraid we'll be quick in and out, engaging in short-term trading and profiteering.
So the condition is that any stocks we buy must be held for at least three months.”
Three months.
This condition is undoubtedly a fatal shackle for most institutions that primarily engage in short-term trading.
But Su Hao merely smiled faintly.
His original plan was to hold for at least six months.
‘From here on, the tone completely changes…’
Because Su Hao saw, in the illusion emanating from the later pages of the document, that the US stock market, after hitting a historic low, would experience an unstoppable, earth-shattering rebound!
The prelude to a golden age was about to begin!
Although the current data suggested the market was about to crash, Su Hao's intuition, or rather, his vision of the future, clearly told him:
Gold is everywhere!
'First, all the large-cap blue-chip stocks must be acquired,' Su Hao decided.
Just as Warren Buffett said: Always invest in companies that will never go bankrupt.
Those high-quality assets that have withstood the test of multiple bull and bear markets still shine with a captivating luster even in the dust of a bear market.
He flipped through the documents page by page, marking them with his pen.
Anything that seemed even slightly ambiguous was crossed out.
He only selected what he considered "certain."
This time, he was using not only funds from Fang Huan Investment, but also the country's sovereign wealth fund.
Therefore, every choice he made was extremely cautious.
Just as he was almost at the end of the document,
"...Hmm?"
His pen stopped.