Chapter 80: President Su's Risk Management Philosophy!

After the meeting, Liang Haiyuan was called into Su Hao's office for a long talk before emerging with a strange expression.
The trading team members, like eager chicks waiting to be fed, were anxiously waiting outside.
This Mr. Su was the one who had just performed a Midas touch in the foreign exchange market, turning 5 billion into 7 billion – a ruthless man indeed!
He was practically a walking money-printing machine!
Especially that day, the entire department was on tenterhooks, barely daring to breathe, afraid of missing that historic moment!
When it was finally confirmed that they had perfectly sold off all their positions at the market's peak!
The ecstatic relief of surviving a catastrophe!
The extreme pleasure of dopamine exploding in their veins!
Even now, thinking about it makes their bodies tremble slightly, a tingling sensation on their scalps!
Therefore, everyone was naturally filled with immense curiosity and anticipation regarding this "miracle director's" next investment target.
"Brother Haiyuan! Quickly reveal which target President Su has set his sights on this time?"
As soon as Liang Haiyuan appeared, everyone immediately surrounded him, chattering away.
Liang Haiyuan took a deep breath and slowly uttered a few words: "Zhongda Auto Group."
"It really is it! I knew it! Zhongda Auto Group has been on fire lately,
its stock price has skyrocketed like a rocket, President Su is definitely going long this time, it's a sure thing!"
Everyone nodded, their expressions showing "great minds think alike."
"No." Liang Haiyuan shook his head, his expression a mixture of disbelief and inexplicable excitement,
"You'll never guess... President Su is planning to short it!"
"What?! Short it?!"
The entire office erupted instantly, exclamations rising and falling, everyone looking as if they'd seen a ghost.
Short Zhongda Auto Group?
"What a joke!"
"That's a super giant, fiercely competing with Toyota for the title of world's best-selling automaker! Right now, it's at its peak, its stock price soaring. Shorting it now?
Isn't that just asking to be taught a lesson by the market?"
"Could it be... that President Su thinks it's risen too high and there will be a technical correction in the short term?"
Someone cautiously speculated.
"It's not impossible. After all, the price has indeed risen a bit outrageously, and a short-term adjustment is in line with market rules. But..."
"Just as the research report analyzed, all market signals indicate that Zhongda's stock price will continue to rise in the short term, unstoppable.
Even if there is a correction, it will only be a brief, insignificant ripple, quickly swallowed up by the even stronger upward momentum."
"
“But judging from President Su’s tone, it seems he doesn’t just want to capitalize on that short-term pullback and make a small profit.”
Liang Haiyuan shook his head, his expression turning serious.
“Huh? Brother Haiyuan, what do you mean by that?”
“Here, take a look for yourselves.” Liang Haiyuan handed everyone a piece of paper.
It was a list of investment channels that Su Hao had personally drawn up.
“Huh? Hedge funds, ETFs, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)... and some other random derivatives?
Most of the ticks are focused on ADRs and a few specific hedge funds.”
A sharp-eyed trader quickly noticed something.
“That’s right.” Liang Haiyuan nodded.
“The key is that all these channels are indirect investments. We don’t directly open positions on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.”
Everyone looked at each other, still confused, not immediately understanding what Liang Haiyuan was trying to say.
“Still don’t get it?” Liang Haiyuan lowered his voice, speaking mysteriously.
“Think about it, if we directly opened a short position on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Then, the stock price of Zhongda Auto Group really does plummet as we expect, even crashing completely.
What do you think those Germans at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority will think?”
“Insider trading?!” Someone gasped.
“Yes!” Liang Haiyuan snapped his fingers.
“They’ll definitely be suspicious, even launch a massive investigation!
Especially those Germans, their monitoring of overseas capital is downright nitpicky.
Even if you’re completely innocent, they can find some fabricated charge against you!”
If Su Hao only wanted to profit from a short-term technical correction,
there was absolutely no need to go to such lengths, choosing these cumbersome and costly indirect investment channels.
Wouldn’t it be much more straightforward to just buy and sell directly in the Frankfurt market?
“Ah! So… could it be… could it be that Mr. Su is thinking…”
Finally, a flash of insight struck everyone, and they began to understand.
Su Hao, this ridiculously young and legendary director, wasn’t after those paltry sums of money!
He was going to play big!
The hidden meaning behind such a large-scale indirect investment scheme was self-evident!
Something earth-shattering is about to happen to Zhongda Auto Group!
Moreover, it's a super negative event that could cause its stock price to plummet!
"By shorting through these roundabout, indirect channels, even if Zhongda Auto Group's stock price really crashes!
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) won't be able to find any evidence against us.
At most, they'll think it's some shrewd hedge funds or other investment institutions profiting from normal market fluctuations.
They'd never dream that behind this feast of capital,
the real mastermind is actually Xia Guo, thousands of miles away,
an obscure little trading department that quietly mobilized billions of dollars,
to carry out a perfectly precise "decapitation strike" against Zhongda in Germany!
"Wow! Brother Haiyuan, if things really develop as you say, then wouldn't that mean…
In the past, it was always those foreigners coming to our A-share market to stir up trouble and fleece us investors?"
"This time, it's our turn to counterattack, to go to the Germans' territory and fleece them!"
A young trader's face flushed with excitement.
"On the condition that," Liang Haiyuan's gaze swept over the crowd,
"The stock price of Zhongda Auto Group will indeed plummet, just as President Su predicted.
If President Su wins this gamble, he'll amass billions;
But if he loses… billions of real money will also go down the drain."
"Hiss—"
Everyone felt a chill run from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.
The greater the potential reward, the greater the risk—this is an immutable law of the financial market.
That's why any responsible financial company prioritizes risk control.
"However… with President Su's uncanny foresight, this time it will definitely also…"
Someone instinctively wanted to say, "Absolutely foolproof."
"There's no 'however'!" Liang Haiyuan interrupted him decisively.
"I've told you all before! For our CEO Su, there's only one thing to 'risk control'!
That is, winning! As long as you can win, there's no risk whatsoever!"
"..."
Everyone was speechless, feeling a surge of adrenaline rush to their heads.
To become a masked investor, infiltrating the heavily guarded German financial market.
And without any armor, carrying only an incredibly sharp single-edged sword, ready to take the head of a general amidst a sea of ​​soldiers!
This maneuver was simply outrageous!
No armor, single-handedly, bare-handed, charging into the enemy ranks!
Before the enemy's blade reaches their neck, to slit their throat first!
This was CEO Su's risk management philosophy!
Just thinking about it made everyone feel their blood boiling, their hearts pounding wildly, as if they were about to leap out of their throats.
"Holy crap! Just hearing about it is giving me a heart attack!"
"Don't even mention it, my back is already soaked with sweat..."
"This is fucking more thrilling than riding a roller coaster without a seatbelt!"
"My god, if I keep going like this with Boss Su, I seriously doubt I'll even live to see the day I die of natural causes!"
Everyone felt a pang of sympathy—working under this god-like Boss Su, you'd probably need to keep some nitroglycerin on hand.
Otherwise, one day you'd die young from the sheer thrill...
But, damn it, this feeling!
It's freaking...so exhilarating!