Chapter 43: The Invisible War Smoke

  In the stock market, prices have always been changing rapidly. Countless people are fighting and competing in it, with some achieving success and fame, while others become rich overnight. However, for the vast majority of Chinese investors, their assets shrink significantly. Due to the asymmetry of information and professional levels, on this battlefield without gunpowder smoke, individual investors rush in and out hastily. Similarly, there are also those who drive an Audi in but come out with an Aotuo. Even in the brokerage firm's account opening hall, a huge banner is hung: "The stock market has risks, open an account with caution!"

  The country is at peace, the people are living in harmony. Old Zhang, a stock investor, sits in front of his computer, staring at the screen displaying the latest prices of Lafarge's stocks. He places orders to buy tens of millions of shares near 4 yuan. Meanwhile, he hums: "Red dust, red leaves, red gauze. Red sky, red sun, red youth, red gone, red back, red all over! Red years, red days and months, red seconds! Red la la la hei! Red la la la red ha hei!"

  Just as the singing was getting into full swing, the door to the main room was pushed open with a loud creak. Before anyone had even seen who it was, a boisterous voice rang out: "Old Zhang! You've got your hands on another big winner, have you? Just look at this!" As the speaker entered, they saw a middle-aged woman with a lot of style and a slightly plump figure walk in.

  Old Zhang didn't even lift his head, and glanced sideways with his eyes. He casually said: "Ah, isn't this Sister Wang? Why aren't you staying in your own big house, but instead ran to my place to chat?"

  Sister Wang said with a pout, "Still staying in our house? The corridor is so narrow that everyone can hear you singing! And you're still so excited, all red. You must have bought some big bull stocks! Old Xia asked me to come over and ask what good tickets you've bought?"

  Old Zhang smiled a little awkwardly and said casually, "This broken market trend, what can be done? Just now LaFa Electronics pulled up a bit, I think it's an opportunity, so I'm planning to take in some more chips!"

  Sister Wang's face changed as soon as she heard that Old Zhang was taking over Lafite Electronics. She sighed and said, "Ah! I thought it was a good stock! I have tens of millions of Lafite Electronics in my hands, which I bought during the previous rally. Who knew it would be stuck for half a year? I'm not moving anymore! If I had known you wanted it, I would have sold it to you directly. It's better than watching it stagnate!"

  Old Zhang looked up at Wang Jie and said, "Can't be, aren't you quite familiar with the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions? How did you still get taken in?" As soon as Old Zhang mentioned this, Wang Jie got angry and blurted out, "Bullshit! You're talking about knowing the boss of Lafite Electronics! He told me to buy it, saying there would be benefits later and it would definitely go up. Who knew the market would plummet all the way down? Lafite Electronics fell with it, so fast it was like a dog's hind legs! I'm so fed up, I really don't want to hold onto it anymore!"

  As she spoke, Wang sister walked up to Old Zhang, casually pulled out a cigarette from Old Zhang's bucket of Huaxia cigarettes and lit it. She took a deep drag, watching as Old Zhang stared at the trend while constantly hanging up orders. Wang sister had wanted to advise him on something, but after thinking about it, she just puffed on her cigarette and pursed her lips, saying nothing.

  In the Beijing music scene, at the Yinhe business department on Leshan North Road, several big shots were gathered together discussing LaFa Electronics...

  A middle-aged man asked, "Brother, don't you think the trend of Lafa Electronics is quite strange now? We didn't make a small profit in the previous period. Today, I don't know why the main force suddenly pulled up without any good news. Now it's falling back, but looking at the disk surface, there are so many absorption orders below. From 3.9 to 4.1, two waves of orders are waiting to be absorbed. What should we do? Sell or..."

  "Looks like it's sucking up the goods, if the ones that fell on top are eaten by the ones below, I reckon it can still pull a bit! Old Four, you're at 40,000 hands, try to probe the situation..."

  Bermuda has a triangle, Southeast Asia has Long San Jiao. In the capital city, Guotai Jun'an Zhichunli Business Department, Yue Tan North Road Yinhe Securities, Hai Shang Securities Pingying Business Department. At this time, it just formed a triangle in the capital city.

  Xiao Duan said anxiously: "Director Yang, at the price of 4 yuan per piece, a lot of buying orders suddenly appeared. Our orders for 4 yuan were not filled, but they let these orders be filled!"

  Du Yu sat silently on the sofa, a cigarette clenched in his hand, which was slightly trembling. His eyes were narrowed and he remained speechless. The pressure in his heart was indeed great, after all, it wasn't easy to sweep away such a large amount of goods. As soon as Du Yu opened his mouth, Gu Kejun gave him 3 million hands. This big plate would have been nothing before 2004, but in the world of 2005 where land prices were skyrocketing, the accounts of individual investors had basically all been tortured into zombie accounts by the big plate. Transaction accounts were rare, and it was extremely difficult to sweep away 3 million hands under such circumstances!

  Yang Yaowei looked calmly at the computer and said with a smile: "Unexpected, reasonable. This kind of thing is normal! Xiao Duan, you guys take away all the four-piece receiving trays! Just leave the three-piece nine yuan orders on display. I'll ship them out, and you guys will withdraw in batches, don't take them all away at once!"

  Just a wall away, Li Xiaoteng and Zhao Xun stood in front of the computer watching Lafa Electronics' stock soar like a ghost. Li Xiaoteng didn't say a word, but Zhao Xun couldn't hold back. Pointing at the computer, he said: "Xiaoteng brother, Lafa Electronics surged high and then fell back, looking at the overall market trend, I think it will consolidate for a while and then continue to rise. This stock still has a lot of room for upside in the future! You should buy some Lafa Electronics when you have a chance!" Not mentioning at all that Li Xiaoteng had just been saying bearish things about Lafa Electronics.

  Li Xiaoteng chuckled and said, "This stock is really interesting, Zhao Xun, do you believe the price will drop soon?" Zhao Xun had just managed to persuade Li Xiaoteng to open an account and was waiting for him to transfer funds. He didn't dare contradict Li Xiaoteng.

  But looking at the disc, he still said with a stiff upper lip: "Little Teng brother, look here!"

  "Now, as you can see, there are over 500,000 sell orders at the price of 4.25! And in the middle, there is a gap. There are large buy orders waiting to be executed between 4.10 and 3.90. I don't fully understand this situation, but according to trading principles, when these small retail investors buy at prices above 4.10, they can immediately get matched. Without these orders, the trades would be executed at 4.10! I think the buying power is still quite strong!"

  Li Xiaoteng smiled and said, "I see! This is a few people making a disk, absolutely not an institution doing it. The sell orders above are relatively neat, while the buy orders below are more fragmented! There are only two possible situations!"

  Zhao Xun curiously asked, "What's going on?" Li Xiaoteng glanced at Zhao Xun, this little beauty, and smiled slyly, saying: "One possibility is that the main force knows some unpublished bad news. They secretly pull up and sell out, but then quickly knock it down, so it doesn't look quite right! Another possibility is that the main force is shaking out and eating goods."

  Zhao Xun asked in surprise: "Wash the plate and suck the spoon?" He immediately looked at Li Xiaoteng with a strange expression, a student who had just graduated from university? Even professional practitioners who had passed the investment analysis exam couldn't understand it! How could he be so sure?

  One foot in, one foot out...

  Xiao Duan said: "Director Yang, we've withdrawn all the orders for four pieces, but the orders for four pieces at one yuan haven't decreased. Moreover, many more people have come to eat goods!"

  Yang Yawei calmly looked at Du Yu, seeing his sharp gaze staring back. He immediately said: "Don't worry... relax!" After finishing speaking, he nodded towards Du Yu and said: "All buy orders are cancelled! Stop buying!" After saying this, Yang Yawei lowered his head to look at his own sell order, which had already been executed by 60%. In other words, his six million shares of goods were being bought away by others.

  Yang Yawei's forehead was slightly sweating, and he secretly took a deep breath. Immediately, several tens of thousands of hands were hung at 4 yuan 1 jiao and 4 yuan 1 respectively. From time to time, some goods were also thrown out at the price of 4 yuan and a few cents!

  Du Yu said somewhat impatiently: "I'm telling you, Yang, our goal is to make a profit! Not to sell at cost price! You...you...you...ah..."

  Du Yu, you've been silent for half a day, and I don't know what to say to you.

  Yang Yaowei is now more anxious than Du Yu, and can't help but frown, secretly suspecting that the news has been leaked. Has someone else already known about the good news in advance? But since they've started, they have to see it through. If they stop now, the chips they've gathered so far will really be wasted. And if they collect them back, the cost will definitely increase sharply!

  It's not just Yang Yawei who is flustered. Stock investor Old Zhang can't show his face now! The mouth that was humming "Red, red, red, haha!" earlier has been blocked by a cigarette. After taking two fierce puffs, Old Zhang looked at the changes in the disk and cursed: "Damn it's weird. There were so many buy orders below just now, how did they all withdraw one after another?"

  Sister Li sat beside Old Zhang, staring at the screen and said: "Old Zhang! It's not going to work! You see how determined the main force is selling now. Maybe it was just attracting followers earlier! I heard that recently, Lafar Electronics' production line for thin-film capacitors has been shut down. It's possible that this year's net profit will decline year-on-year. Maybe it's a bad omen! Otherwise, the main force wouldn't be selling like this!"

  Sister Wang listened quietly on the side, her heart secretly shocked, and asked: "I said Sister Li! You heard this news but didn't tell me a word. Seeing the main force selling out like crazy, you're not making a sound... You're really something!" Just as Sister Li was about to explain, she saw Sister Wang turn around and storm out the door.

  Looking at Wang's back, Li's face was full of grievances. She felt that she had been wronged and her good intentions had ended in such a miserable outcome.

  Without much effort, Wang sister rushed back to her own large house, looked at the account and saw the Lafa Electronics on her account. No matter how she looked at it, it was unbearable. She raised her head and took a look at the trend of Lafa Electronics. Fortunately, it was still consolidating sideways. She gritted her teeth and hung her stock ratio on the sell order at 4.1 yuan. Thinking to herself: "Since Old Zhang wants them all, I'll give them all away. I won't be stuck with worthless stocks!"

  On Beihuan North Road, a group of big players gathered in front of the Lehua Electronics stock price display. Although the stock price hadn't dropped, the sell orders surprisingly increased instead of decreasing. One of them suddenly said with a lack of confidence: "Brother, I think there's really a problem, let's sell too! Take advantage of the current stock price not having dropped yet, who knows what it'll be like later if no one supports it!"

  The boss gritted his teeth and said: "Sell half of it first, let's see..."

  Old Zhang, puffing on his cigarette, watched as the sell orders piled up, and his hand holding the cigarette began to shake. He cursed at Sister Li, "It must be that Wang woman! She actually ran over to help the main force crash the market! Has she gone crazy?!" Sister Li frowned at Old Zhang and said, "Old Zhang, why don't you just cancel the unexecuted orders? If it falls in the next little while..."

  Old Zhang frowned and sighed reluctantly. He clicked cancel on all the unfulfilled orders on his computer...

  Du Yu's eyes widened as he stared at the stock price plummeting. Although the magnitude was not large, all the big buy orders disappeared, leaving only a few small orders from retail investors!

  Yang Yawei is now considered a big shot! He casually withdrew some of his sell orders and shouted to Xiaodu: "Set the price at 3.69 yuan, the limit-down price! Get ready to take over!" With a flick of his wrist, two large sell orders were thrown out, and the stock price plummeted instantly, diving straight down three thousand feet!

  Li Xiaoteng pointed at the computer and smiled at Zhao Xun, saying: "Look! It's crashed!"

  "Thinking back to those days, the magnificent rainbow-colored road was criticized for being too professionally written, but I thought it was just right, not too much or too little. I wanted to ask everyone how they think my writing is after finishing today's chapter. If you have any opinions, please leave them in the review section. And if you like it, don't be stingy with your collections and recommendation votes!"