Chapter 198

Chapter 198 turned Smith Capital into a true giant

The evening wind blows and night falls on Maui, Hawaii.

The weather is clear and cool at night, which is usually the most comfortable time in Hawaii.

In the afternoon, experience swimming and go out to see whales.

The relationship between Amanda and Abel is clearly much more familiar.

The two cousins ​​also stayed at Abel's beachfront villa. At the Beach House restaurant, everyone had dinner and everyone went to shower.

About half past seven.

After Amanda Hearst finished bathing, she was extremely excited and took her cousin Lydia Hearst with her and wanted to find Abel.

Lydia seems a bit resistant:

"Amanda, you can go there yourself. I think you can take him down yourself."

"I also have the same confidence." Amanda said confidently. "But I still need you to protect me, Lydia. Obviously when you're here, that guy will be even more resistant to me."

"Heh~" Amanda sneered, "Sisters are indeed very attractive to men."

Lydia looked at Amanda speechless.

"So I have to sacrifice myself for your plan?" » Lydia Hearst asked.

"Then I don't want to!"

"You're thinking too much. Lydia, I just need your help!" Amandine said:

"If you really want to steal a man from me, then I will be angry!"

"So you still called me?" Lydia said. "It's not like he has low self-esteem like other men." Amanda muttered.

"Sister flower, sister flower. Lydia, help me."

Lydia Hearst is helpless.

She really wanted to refuse but was harassed and manipulated by Amanda.

Finally, she and Amanda went to find Abel. Upon entering the peripheral area of ​​one of the three main bedrooms, the two men were stopped by bodyguards.

This has already been said.

This Hawaiian beach villa has a total of three floors of master bedrooms for a super luxurious family.

The three large bedrooms on the main bedroom floor are all independent from the garden.

Abel's master bedroom should be located closest to the sea. The ocean channel allows direct swimming to the ocean from the villa which is also located closest to this room.

"Excuse me, Miss Hurst. What do you want?"

Bodyguard captain Edward asked quietly.

"We want to find Abel." Amanda's attitude is quite polite.

"cough cough cough"

Edward coughed lightly and said:

"Maybe it doesn't work anymore. Our BOSS is resting with Mrs. Theron.

"Sleep?" Amanda raised her beautiful eyebrows: "Are you resting so early?"

Edward believes that rest is rest and sleep is sleep.

It's not the kind of sleep you're imagining.

"Yes. Boss. He must be troublesome right now." Edward said. Amanda wanted to say something but Lydia Hearst pulled her away.

After leaving the range of the guards.

Amanda said dissatisfiedly:

"Lydia, what are you doing? Don't you think it's strange? Abel leaves so early? It's not normal! There must be something wrong with this."

Lydia Hearst looked angrily at her cousin.

"Sleep at 7:30. That's not normal at all. But Amanda, are you sure it's really just 'sleep'?"

"Forehead"

Amanda immediately knew what Lydia was referring to.

"You mean." Amandine whispered:

"Abel did this to Charlize?"

"If not?" Lydia raised her beautiful eyebrows. Satisfied with the food and drinks, I spent the afternoon with the three beauties of the day.

Abel is still too young.

At that time, going out to "play" with Charlize was normal, right?

"Alright." Amanda gritted her teeth and said: "Then let's go later!"

Lydia actually lost to her cousin.

Don't give up like that? Apparently, they've done this with other women!

after an hour.

Amanda dragged her cousin to find her.

On the outskirts, she was still stopped by Edward.

"Didn't you just say that your boss is "sleeping"? Amanda said dissatisfied.

When she said the word "sleep", she deliberately emphasized her tone. As if wanting the captain of the bodyguard team, Edward, to understand what she was implying.

"Um" Edward was taken aback. He already has two children. He was nearly forty years old. When he saw two young girls, he felt a bit of a headache.

Bodyguard Captain Edward took a few steps back and decided to let Bodyguard Captain Donnie come. Let Donnie take care of these two Hearst girls.

Dony has arrived.

She faced the two girls more directly than Edward.

"Miss Hurst. It's okay, the boss is indeed sleeping."

"But you may not be clear. When our boss sleeps, he usually sleeps for a few hours. »

Amanda frowned. "Ma'am. We understand 'sleep'. But we don't understand what you mean by 'sleep for a few' hours."

Donnie looked at Amanda, and she said to herself: little girl, you don't know our boss's horror about this matter!

"That's literal." Donnie decided to be more straightforward.

"Our boss, every time he sleeps with Miss Theron. Or with her other companions, every hour."

"What?!" Amanda was shocked. She still wants to talk.

Once again to cousin Lydia Hestra.

"No way, this woman is lying!"

While walking to a place where there was no one, Amanda pointed out to Lydia:

"Even though I haven't experienced it yet! But how many hours does this kind of thing take? How is it possible!"

"I read physiology textbooks!"

Lydia is helpless.

You feel like even if you see it, there's no need to say it so directly, right? Guards also patrol the nearby rocks.

"Amanda, I don't want to be crazy about you anymore. Maybe Mr. Smith will come in."

Speaking of this, Lydia felt a bit embarrassed, but looking around, she lowered her voice.

"Maybe he's really like that in this regard? He's 'busy' now, let's not go there!"

Amanda had a bit of a hard time believing it, but the present really didn't adapt to the past. When it was past nine or ten, Amanda wanted to train Lydia without giving up.

This time Lydia refused to be beaten to death and ran away after being dragged halfway by Amanda.

Seeing Lydia run away, Amanda was angry and decided to find Abel herself.

Amanda felt that Abel's bodyguard was definitely wrong.

Amanda reads a physiology book. How can a man take so long!

On the other side, Lydia wanted to return to her room.

She was afraid her cousin would withdraw when she returned.

I simply decided not to go back to the room and would come back later.

She planned to go to one of the villa's many guest rooms, one of which faced the ocean and had flowers in the spring.

Stay there for a while then return to the next room. When she reached the living room, she was surprised to see Abel, naked upper body, wet hair, clearly having just taken a shower, watching television.

"Ah~ Mr. Smith?" Lydia whispered.

"It's Lydia. Good evening." She saw Abel chuckle inwardly.

That smile made Lydia think of Mr. Smith. Just based on appearance and figure, even if you go to Hollywood or the modeling world, you can eat well.

"Your"

Lydia wants to tell you that you're still in the master bedroom having sex with Charlize Theron. Amanda looked for it.

Abel also didn't know what she was going to say.

He explains a bit about why he himself appears here at this time. "Something happened in Southeast Asia, maybe it's a business opportunity for me. This living room has the biggest TV in the entire villa. I came to watch the news."

Lydia also saw his hand, which was holding a remote control.

In the living room, the latest 52-inch LCD TV is broadcasting news from Southeast Asia.

"Oh oh." Lydia replied. She looked at Abel's naked upper body, her face was a little hot, neither advancing nor retreating.

Just as she was about to speak, she saw that Abel had ignored her and was focusing on the TV.

Lydia hesitated for a moment then slowly walked in.

His curious eyes were also looking at the content on the LCD TV.

She realized that the above content was the international news channel of NBC television channel. What was broadcast above was a current event that happened during the day today in a country called the Philippines in Southeast Asia.

In the current event, the Supreme Court of the Philippines declared a great commander named Estrada disbarred.

Furthermore, on the same day, another guy named A Luo Yue in this country was sworn in as the new commander in chief.

Lydia knows about the Philippines and knows that it is a relatively pro-American country.

It's like an American colony. But Lydia has never been there, this place is like Africa to her.

A European and American girl the same age as him. This impression is essentially valid everywhere else, except Europe and North America.

In other words, Lydia received a slightly better education.

At least they know about the Philippines. If she is an ordinary European and American girl who has never been to the Philippines.

It is estimated that they have never heard of this place.

Lack of common sense was a common problem for most Europeans and Americans after the fall of Mao Hung.

Naitoule education wants this kind of effect.

Lydia also doesn't know that Abel is a Wall Street tycoon and a Hollywood tycoon. How can you be interested in the news of such a remote and small country?

Is there any interest in this place that he wants?

Lydia is very curious.

She realized it after Abel saw the news.

He picked up a cell phone that looked like a satellite phone and started talking. She wondered if she should leave.

It doesn't seem very pleasant to be here alone while everyone else is talking on the phone.

But by a strange coincidence, Lydia did not leave.

She said it like this:

[Grandfather. Smith knew I was there. He didn't let me go or he left on his own, so it didn't matter if I heard him calling. ]

"David, it's me."

"0.600 billion, has Lehman Brothers entered the market yet?"

".Well, what about your judgment?"

". Yes, that's a pretty accurate statement. This time you will do it yourself.

". It's a test. As long as your test results can satisfy me.

"You would then be eligible for a transaction worth less than $100 million and a day less than $500 million."

".That's all I asked for. But I won't say any more. If I say so, I can go back to New York and trade.

".It's not wrong. You can understand. That's all."

"."

Abel hung up on the satellite phone.

He looked at the LCD TV, lost in thought about other international news. The previous appeal was made by him himself to David Mellon.

What he and David Mellon were talking about was after he went to Hawaii on vacation recently.

Smith Capital has launched an international hedge fund headed by David Mellon and several other employees.

The investment target is the Philippine peso and the objective is to short the Philippine peso for profit.

pretty simple. This is a repeat of the trick Soros played with some Southeast Asian countries.

But in terms of scale, it is much smaller and more limited.

These small countries, after nine years of losses, are no longer so stupid.

but encountered a suitable black swan event.

For example what happened in the Philippines today. International hot money can still be manipulated a bit.

In other words, profits will not be too high and operations will be relatively heavy.

But because the scale is relatively small, the operations are also very heavy and the risks can be controlled.

Abel let Smith Capital try without his own intervention.

Let's see how much money Smith Capital can make on its own. In other words, it has been more than half a year since Smith Capital was founded.

For the first time, Abel opened the company's trading and investment rights to other Smith Capital traders besides himself.

Before that, the entire Smith Capital had ups and downs.

Only the boss has commercial power.

Other analysts and traders, their daily duties are to gather intelligence and analyze the markets. They will be busy for a few days when Abel wants to play big.

This model is certainly very distorted.

On Wall Street, no one does that.

If Abel does not want to expand Smith Capital and always only uses Smith Capital as his own tool.

This can actually perpetuate this distorted pattern. But now, under Abel's leadership.

Smith Capital Pacific Commercial Bank.

The combination of the two created the prototype of a Wall Street giant.

It remains a commercial banking model of investment banking, which has an advantage over some other investment banks on Wall Street.

As long as this deformation pattern persists. It is difficult for it to grow on a scale comparable to other Wall Street giants.

More importantly, Abel is a bit worried about his "talent", which is the deadline.

If I run out of time, I'll go.

At this time, if Smith Capital still maintains this model.

This is the death of Smith Capital. Abel thinks so, even though his "talent" is still there.

Smith Capital has also grown in scale.

It's time to grow Smith Capital, it's time to turn it into a serious Wall Street giant.

He thought, gradually expanding his power, step by step.

Let David Mellon and its traders have initial trading rights first. At the same time, recruit talents widely, under their own supervision.

In a few years, expand Smith Capital.

Strive to make Smith Capital one of the true giants of Wall Street by 2008.

This is the kind of real Wall Street giant with more than 20,000 "vice presidents" like Goldman Sachs.

Let them try to short the Philippine peso this time, that's how fast it's training. If all goes well, Smith Capital will continue to scale and recruit talent.

So this is the first time military training is provided with the condition of being given authority.

Under his guidance, David Mellon, who had almost forgotten his investment skills after a year of staying, had some doubts.

Faced with big or small problems, if you don't ask boss Abel, you will feel a little worried and doubt yourself.

Abel joined Charlize before, just as he was about to go on his third date. David called.

Abel saw that Charlize was almost paralyzed from exhaustion so he let her go.

Thinking of David Mellon's military training, he also wanted to pay attention to this process.

Abel came here to watch the news and learn about the situation in New York.

Now, David Mellon and others have passed away. Smith Capital participates in this international hot money hedging investment activity.

The total investment is about 500 million USD, doubling the leverage, by buying contract positions worth 600 billion Philippine pesos and selling short.

It took three days and the floating profit amounted to more than 1 million US dollars in the first two days.

An event of such a large scale happened today in the Philippines and the Philippine peso quickly ran out.

This gave Smith Capital, which shorted the Philippine peso, a floating profit of more than $10 million. David Mellon is a little uncertain. Right now I don't know whether I should continue to coach or become a referee and then leave.

Abel was on the phone earlier and left David and the other traders to decide for themselves.

But in fact, Abel's "talent" speaks for itself.

At this time, you should leave directly. The Philippine economy is like that and the foreign exchange market is also very small.

Being able to make a profit of 10 to 20 million USD is already very good.

Currently, it is better to exit the market directly and it is safer to exit the market through arbitrage.

After all, this is not a super market like USD/JPY.

In the entire international foreign exchange market, the Philippines belongs to the countries with relatively small plates. Winning a little is a little, so there's no need to miss it.

I just don't know what choice David Mellon and others will make.

Abel was also curious.

If successful, Abel will ask them to try a few more times.

Only after meeting Abel's demands did he open up most of the powers to them. If they are not qualified, they can only let David Mellon and his group of veterans continue to be Abel's personal tool dealers.

Abel will recruit investment managers with outside investment capabilities.

Regardless, Abel still decided to expand the scale of Smith Capital.

What does he think, even if he doesn't have his own talent in the future.

This company can also make normal money like a big investment bank. To be a Wall Street titan, you have to look like a Wall Street titan!

Thinking so, he stood up.

Turning around, she saw Lydia Hearst at her side, looking at Abel himself, she looked stunned.

Of course he knew Lydia wouldn't go.

But that's exactly what Lydia thinks.

Abel felt it wasn't a big secret and it didn't matter if the girl heard it. Looking at Lydia's bewildered eyes at this moment, he smiled and said:

"Miss Hurst? Lydia? Lydia?"

"Open?" Lydia woke up startled.

Only then did she realize that she was a bit stunned when looking at Abel's handsome face just now.

That's a bit of a mistake. Lydia suddenly blushed.

(end of this chapter)