Chapter 43
Chapter 43
Awakened Black-Haired Investor 043
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[Market Alert] WTI: Reached -$13
‘There’s still volume left? Still?’
Kyle stared at the monitor, feeling his head about to explode from the pressure.
He quickly turned and shouted to the back.
“Push in more margin! Now!”
If he had stopped when the oil price failed to hold zero dollars and plunged into the negatives, it would have ended with just one arm being cut off.
But he couldn’t stop.
The wrong decision to try and support it one more time didn’t end there, but was still dragging him into an endless swamp.
Every time he tried to support it to reduce losses, the losses inevitably grew even larger.
This was already the third time.
Meanwhile, on his floor, worried whispers were continuing, quiet enough that Kyle couldn’t hear them.
“It’s not just about receiving, is it? At this rate, we’ll really have to take delivery of the oil.”
A situation where they might have to take possession of actual crude oil, not just numbers in a computer.
There was still a day left until the expiration date, but everyone knew.
In reality, there were only about 20 minutes left.
That was the time they had to trade.
It was clear what would happen after the regular session closed today. Participants would disappear. They would reach a point where they couldn’t sell even if they wanted to.
The order book would be empty, and all that would be left would be the real oil drums they had to take on.
“Shhh, he’ll hear you.”
Someone whispered in a low voice from one side of the floor. That was because everyone knew Kyle’s personality well.
Kyle was not the kind of person who would ever accept a situation where he was cornered.
“If he explodes like that, we’ll get caught up in it too.”
Another person cautiously added.
Fortunately, Kyle was completely immersed in the battlefield on the monitor right now.
Not even blinking, staring at the screen as if there was an object of rage that he actually had to kill inside, made those who watched him feel eerie.
One of the reasons why they suspected him of being a psycho on the floor was because of this appearance.
Kyle only showed such emotions on the floor.
In front of others, he was a completely different person. Especially in front of his partners, he was a perfect gentleman.
A few minutes later, Kyle’s fingertips stopped on the keyboard.
[Market Alert] WTI: Broke below -$15
The new alert that appeared on the screen created a faint bloodshot in his eyes.
[Market Alert] WTI: Reached -$20
It was at the minus 15 dollar mark.
Some selling force had dumped 20,000 contracts at once.
That was $700 million worth of volume.
The efforts to support the volume and calm the market’s fear were washed away by that one selling spree.
“Crazy bastard… How dare he to me……”
Kyle pushed back his chair and jumped up.
The floor instantly fell silent.
“Those who only run away… What right do they have? What right do they have……”
He picked up the chair.
The moment he raised the chair high above his head.
The employees on the floor each flinched and covered their heads with both hands.
That was because they had witnessed a colleague being hit by that chair and collapsing before.
Just like back then, Kyle’s eyes had already lost their reason.
“What right do they have to disrupt the market!”
The chair, thrown with all his might from Kyle’s hand, fortunately, strongly hit the steel cabinet on the wall, not a person.
Bang!
The chair bounced off and rolled across the floor, and the cabinet shook with a loud noise.
Kyle took a rough breath and looked around. No one could meet his gaze.
“I’m in control of this market! What do those bastards who dump volume like this know!”
His frenzied voice echoed through the floor, freezing everything even more.
“Put in the margin. I need to teach these guys who the boss is.”
Kyle looked uneasy, as if he would explode even more if he was poked even slightly.
Nevertheless, the finance officer couldn’t help but hesitate.
“Putting in additional margin… is dangerous. Our financial capacity is already close to the limit……”
The eyes with which Kyle glared at him were mixed with anger and contempt.
“If I had stopped because it was dangerous, would I have come this far?”
The officer swallowed hard.
“We really need to recalculate the risk. If we continue like this……”
His voice grew smaller and smaller.
Before he could finish his sentence, Kyle started walking towards him in large strides. Kyle stopped right in front of him and glared at him with a cold, piercing gaze.
Even so, he was somehow licking his lips.
His eyes, which had been eager to explode until just now, became strangely calm.
The eyes, lit by the light, flickered bizarrely. The moment the officer looked into those eyes, Kyle seemed like some evil being that only resembled a human.
The officer’s whole body trembled.
He trembled so much that his teeth chattered.
The officer was suffocating just by facing Kyle.
He wished Kyle would at least shout like he had just before.
At least then he looked like a person.
But instead, he heard a low, shallow laugh.
Hee hee―
“Scared?”
It was a whisper in the officer’s ear.
The sound was too small and ominous.
* * *
The employees on the floor were each trying to focus on the monitor in front of them, either bowing their heads or pretending to.
Ironically, inside the monitor they were desperately trying to fix their gaze on, a historic event that would be recorded in the history of human capital was unfolding in real time.
Oil prices were endlessly digging into the negative territory that no one had ever imagined.
“Put in the margin quickly! Margin Call! Margin Call!”
A desperate cry erupted from one side of the floor. Only then did Kyle turn around.
Oil prices were plummeting vertically below minus 25 dollars.
Nevertheless, Kyle’s steps were calm.
As he stood quietly in front of his empty seat, an employee quickly brought his chair.
Kyle sat in the chair without a sound.
He pressed the keyboard with his fingers and clicked the mouse, but strangely, it seemed like there was no sound.
It was too quiet.
The employees thought it was because his movements were too quiet.
But in that silence, a scratching sound was heard.
Hee hee―
The low, sticky laughter coming from Kyle flowed in all directions.
The employees on the floor flinched and thought again.
‘Even someone like Kyle can really go crazy if they fail.’
Unless he was crazy, he couldn’t laugh like that in this situation.
The employees glanced at each other.
Maybe tomorrow they wouldn’t have a workplace to go to.
No one was saying it out loud.
Already, oil prices were breaking below minus 30 dollars.
It was the sound of Kyle’s downfall, and the sound of the entire floor collapsing.
But Kyle was still laughing.
* * *
For about 20 minutes, I had the power of the market in my hands.
It was literally thrilling.
The exhilaration that I will never forget until I die was still lingering throughout my body.
The excitement doesn’t subside easily.
Of course, the fact that I realized astronomical profits is also a great thing.
But what’s bigger than that is the experience of dominating the market itself.
Hoo―
I calmed my trembling breath and checked my account.
[ AlphaHelp (Non-profit Welfare Foundation)
• Unrealized Profit/Loss: +$1,630,000,000
• Return on Investment: +16,300%
• Account Balance: $1,640,000,000 ]
Ten million dollars returned as 1.64 billion dollars in less than three weeks.
The urge to return this money to my real account suddenly intervened. That imagination was a thrilling temptation in itself.
This money was not my money.
The ten million dollars that was the foundation of this investment.
It was the money in the nature of consulting fees given to the Hangi Spirit in return for supernaturally Awakening my brain.
It was money that had to be used for the ideology of Hongik Ingan.
From the beginning, I had entered this futures options speculation market to raise military funds to take over the management rights of the evil pharmaceutical company, Belmont Health.
Above all.
Thinking about how my Spirit Eye was about to open again just a while ago, I couldn’t ignore the existence of the Hangi Spirit even more.
Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Just because you can’t feel it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
The Hangi Spirit is with me.
He must be watching. He must be monitoring. Everything from what decisions I make to where those decisions lead.
Anyway, I’m short about 1.4 billion dollars from the targeted 3 billion dollars.
If this were Monopoly, it would be an amount that could be solved by luckily going around one more time, but I’m talking about real money in reality.
I need to find a new market that can handle the capital that has been quantum-jumped to 1.6 billion dollars again.
Crackle―
Several candidates flashed through my mind.
But it must be because the tension was relieved in an instant. My body feels pleasantly relaxed.
That’s it for today.
First, I should enjoy today’s victory.
* * *
「 Oil Prices Turn Negative for the First Time in History Due to a Sharp Drop in Demand
On April 20, 2020, one day before the expiration date of the May WTI crude oil futures, the crude oil market was literally in unprecedented chaos.
The crude oil futures price recorded an unprecedented minus 37.63 dollars.
Experts’ Warnings
The lack of crude oil storage facilities and the sharp drop in demand in the situation ahead of the futures expiration date are cited as the main causes of this situation.
As global economic activity came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, crude oil demand plummeted, leading to oversupply.
Experts had already been warning about the limitations of crude oil storage capacity for several weeks, emphasizing the risks of the market.
In particular, on April 2, Na Hyun-woo, who rose to stardom by predicting the COVID pandemic, left a warning through his Twitter account AlphaMind(@AlphaMind_1999).
In his tweet, he warned, “The crude oil futures market around the expiration date may face a situation unprecedented in the history of the capital market.”
This warning became a hot topic for many people at the time.
And today, April 20, his warning became a reality, leaving a strong shock to the global financial world.
Unknown Investor, Realizes Huge Profits
Even in the midst of the chaos, an unknown investor surprised the global financial world by realizing record profits.
The anonymous investor is estimated to have predicted the sharp drop in May WTI and recorded a return of more than 100 times and realized profits of more than 1 billion dollars through short positions and options trading.
In this regard, financial expert Bill Ackman commented, “It seems that they accurately read the market flow and executed a strategy to maximize volatility. It is not just luck, but the result of thorough analysis and determination.”
It is also being discussed that this unknown investor may have established a strategy based on the topic triggered by AlphaMind.
Na Hyun-woo of AlphaMind(@AlphaMind_1999) is a person who predicted the COVID pandemic early and established himself as a legend in the financial world with a return of more than 300 times.
With this Jackpot, this unknown investor is likely to be remembered as a new legend following in the footsteps of Na Hyun-woo.
April 20, 2020, 23:30 EDT
By Emily Harper, Bloomberg Reporter 」