Continuing from the previous chapter
The meeting broke up, and President Song called a designated driver to take people home.
I called my cousin over specifically to have him drive President Wang.
My cousin is someone who operates excavators on construction sites, and he has a few heavy Caterpillar and Hyundai machines.
In the car, my cousin mysteriously showed off to me.
He said he recently met a loan officer from a rural bank, who is really nice and even sent him a New Year's greeting message.
My cousin felt very warm-hearted, saying he hasn't saved much money, yet the other person's attitude is so friendly.
Not only that, but this officer has also become his investment strategist.
I taught him how to buy US dollars, and recently I even advised him to sell his wife's gold.
My cousin lamented to me that those in the bank deal with money every day and must know a lot of insider information; it's definitely reliable to listen to them.
I looked at the dim streetlights of the county outside the car window and couldn't help but smile.
I said, his understanding might not be much stronger than yours.
Back when I was still dealing with the physical world, during the pandemic, restaurants were basically not allowed to open.
A leader of a branch, in order to entertain important connections, privately asked me to open a door, and I also accompanied him at the table.
That night, the oil price fell to $30.
That leader had a bit to drink, was glowing, and vowed to me that this price was fine for all-in.
His logic is very perfect: it has already fallen below the extraction cost, and the oil-producing countries will not survive, this is definitely the bottom.
That well-reasoned analysis would have caused someone with poor determination to dump their entire fortune in.
But I was not swayed.
In my years of doing business, I've seen too many people die in the illusion of 'absolutely cannot fall again'.
A few days later, the oil price dropped to negative.
I told my cousin that the more someone understands a little on the surface and is in the game, the easier it is to die in the information meat grinder.
After sending off Director Wang, I brought President Song back to my bookstore for tea.
I casually chatted with him about my cousin's superstition about the loan officer.
President Song held a teacup and smiled.
He said that in a county, the truly high-level cognitions are always only those few responsible for decision-making.
For example, the secretary and county head who decide personnel, and the finance director who manages the money.
Only they are making real decisions: who goes up, who goes down, and where the money flows.
Those seemingly glamorous directors and heads below are often just going through a large-scale procedure.
They think they know the inside story, but what they see is just the 'results' that the higher-ups want them to see.
Ordinary people want insider information when investing and seek thrills.
Always hoping to be fully invested today, so I can double it tomorrow.
In fact, the real flow of wealth is exactly the same as the power operations in this county.
Most of the time, the main theme is dry, monotonous, and boring garbage time.
Just like this set of numbers that keeps jumping on the screen now.
Those at the top who can truly make decisions about the water level had already completed the profit cut at the position of 2385.
The big picture has already been set.
Now the water surface below still looks like it's floundering.
At this position of 2150, it creates an illusion of not being able to fall.
This is just like what that loan officer leaked to you as the 'bottom'.
It looks decent, seemingly ready to rebound at any moment.
In fact, this is a reservoir specifically prepared for smart people.
Deliberately digging a small pit, casually giving a little sweetener, to poke at the ceiling of 2200.
If there isn't a continuous influx of new water, relying solely on this group of people below to game each other will only produce flowerless results.
It is destined to wither.
After draining all the liquidity that thought they had picked up cheap chips.
The machine will continue to press down.
Until testing the bloody hard bottom of 2050.
Not reaching the moment of extreme panic when everyone feels it’s about to crash, all the struggles now are just procedures for others.
[Empty Uncle Strategy]
Tactical direction: mainly high altitude
Hunter level: 2165 - 2170
Life-saving bottom line: 2196 (if it breaks up, admit mistakes; saving lives is important, never hold positions)
Profit-taking range: 2090 reduce positions / 2060 liquidate positions
In life, eight or nine out of ten things do not go as desired. Being a clear-headed observer, enduring this long and boring wait is the only way to wait for the real prey.