America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 198 Makes Smith Capital a real giant

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

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

  After the afternoon, the experience of swimming on the beach and going out to sea to watch whales.

   The relationship between Amanda and Abel is obviously a lot more familiar.

  The two cousins ​​also stayed in Abel's manor beach house.

  In the beach house restaurant, everyone had dinner, and everyone went to wash up.

  Around half past seven.

  Amanda Hearst after taking a bath, she took her cousin Lydia Hearst with great interest, and wanted to find Abel.

   Lydia looks a bit resistant:

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

   "I have the same confidence." Amanda said confidently.

   "But I still need you to cover me, Lydia. Obviously, when you are there, the guy will be more resistant to me."

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

  Lydia looked at Amanda speechlessly.

   "Then 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 assist!" Amanda said:

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

   "Then you still call me over?" Lydia said.

   "It's not that he has the same inferiority as other men." Amanda muttered.

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

   Lydia Hearst was helpless.

  She really wanted to refuse, but under Amanda's stalking and dragging.

  Finally, she accompanied Amanda to find Abel.

   When entering the periphery of one of the three master bedrooms, the two were stopped by bodyguards.

   It has been said before.

  This beach villa in Hawaii has a total of three master bedroom levels of super luxurious detached houses.

  The three large bedrooms at the master bedroom level are all independent from the garden courtyard.

  Abel's master bedroom should be located closest to the sea.

  The ocean channel that can swim directly to the sea from the villa is also the closest to this bedroom.

   "Sorry, Miss Hurst. What do you want?"

  The bodyguard captain Edward asked softly.

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

   "cough cough cough"

  Edward coughed in a low voice, and said:

   "It may not work now. Our BOSS is resting with Ms. Theron."

   "Sleep?" Amanda raised her beautiful eyebrows, "Did you rest so early?"

  Edward thought that rest is rest, and sleep is sleep.

   It's just not the kind of sleep you imagined.

   "Yes. The boss. He should be inconvenient for the time being." Edward said.

   Amanda wanted to say something, but Lydia Hearst pulled her away.

  After leaving the range of the bodyguards.

  Amanda said dissatisfiedly:

   "Lydia, what are you doing? Don't you think it's weird? Abel took a break so early? It's not normal! There must be something wrong."

   Lydia Hearst looked at her cousin angrily.

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

"Forehead"

   Amanda immediately understood what Lydia was referring to.

   "You mean to say." Amanda whispered:

   "Abel is doing that kind of thing with that Charlize?"

   "Otherwise?" Lydia raised her beautiful eyebrows.

  Satisfied with food and drink, I spent the afternoon with three beauties during the day.

  Abel is still so young.

   It's normal to go to "play" with Charlize at this time, right?

   "Okay." Amanda gritted her teeth, "Then let's go there later!"

  Lydia really lost to her cousin.

   Don't give up like this?

  Obviously, they are already doing that kind of thing with other women!

after an hour.

  Amanda dragged her cousin to find her again.

  On the periphery, it was still blocked 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 to want the captain of the bodyguard, Edward, to understand what she was referring to.

   "Uh" Edward was stunned. He already had two children. He was almost forty years old, and he felt a little headache when he saw the two young girls.

  The bodyguard captain Edward took a few steps back and decided to let the female bodyguard captain Donnie come over.

  Let Donnie deal with these two Hearst family ladies.

  Dony came over.

  She faced the two girls more directly than Edward.

   "Miss Hurst. There is nothing wrong, the boss is indeed sleeping."

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

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

  Donnie looked at Amanda, and she thought to herself—little girl, you don’t know the horror of our boss in this regard!

   "It's literally." Donnie decided to be more straightforward.

   "Our boss, every time he sleeps with Miss Theron. Or his other female companions, for hours at a time."

   "What?!" Amanda was shocked.

  She still wanted to speak.

   Again to cousin Lydia Hestra.

   "Impossible, that woman is lying!"

   Walking to a place where no one is around, Amanda emphasizes to Lydia:

   "Although I haven't experienced it yet! But that kind of thing, how many hours? How is it possible!"

   "I've read physiology textbooks!"

  Lydia was helpless.

  She felt that even if she had seen it, she didn't have to say it so bluntly, did she?

  There are also bodyguards patrolling the rocks nearby.

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

   Speaking of this, Lydia was a little shy, but looking around, she lowered her voice.

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

  Amanda is a little unbelievable, but the present is indeed not suitable for the past.

   When it was past nine o'clock or ten o'clock, Amanda wanted to drag Lydia over without giving up.

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

   Seeing Lydia running away, Amanda was angry and decided to go find Abel by herself.

   Amanda felt that Abel's bodyguard must be deceiving herself.

  Amanda has read the physiology book.

  How could a man take so long!

   On the other side, Lydia wanted to go back to her room.

  She was afraid that her cousin would pull herself out when she went back.

   Simply decided not to go back to the room, and go back later.

  She plans to go to one of the several living rooms in the villa, one of which faces the sea and blooms in spring.

  Stay there for a while, and return to the room later.

   When she came to the living room, she was surprised to see Abel, whose upper body was naked and his hair was wet, who had obviously just taken a shower, watching TV.

   "Ah ~ Mr. Smith?" Lydia whispered.

   "It's Lydia. Good evening." She saw Abel smiling to herself.

   This smile made Lydia think of Mr. Smith.

  Based on looks and figure alone, even if you go to Hollywood or the modeling circle, you can have a good meal.

"Your"

  Lydia wants to say that you are still in the master bedroom, sleeping with Charlize Theron. Amanda has already looked for it.

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

  He did explain a little bit why he himself appeared here at this time.

   "Something happened in Southeast Asia, which may be an opportunity for my company. This living room has the largest TV in the entire villa. I came to watch the news."

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

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

   "Oh, oh." Lydia responded.

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

  When she was about to speak, she saw that Abel had ignored him and was focused on watching TV.

  Lydia hesitated for a moment, and finally strolled in slowly.

  Her curious gaze also looked at the content on the LCD TV.

  She found that the above content is an international news channel of NBC TV station.

  What is being broadcast above is a news event that happened during the day today in a country called the Philippines in Southeast Asia.

  In the news event, the Supreme Court of the Philippines announced the deprivation of the rights of a grand commander named Estrada.

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

  Lydia knows the existence of the Philippines, and she knows that it is a relatively pro-American country.

   It used to be like an American colony.

  But Lydia has never been there, that place is similar to Africa to her.

  A European and American girl of her age. This impression is basically held for other places except Europe and North America.

   That is, Lydia received a slightly better education.

  At least they know the existence of the country of Philippines.

  If it was an ordinary European and American girl who had never traveled to the Philippines.

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

   Lack of common sense is a common problem of most Europeans and Americans after the downfall of Mao Xiong.

   Naitoule education wants this kind of effect.

  Lydia also didn't know that Abel was a Wall Street tycoon and a Hollywood tycoon.

  How can you care about the news of such a remote and small country.

   Is there any interest in this kind of place that makes him fancy?

   Lydia was very curious.

  She noticed that after Abel watched 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 good to be here by yourself while others are on the phone.

  But by a strange coincidence, Lydia didn't leave.

  She said to herself in this way:

  【Mr. Smith knew I was here. He didn't let me go or he walked away by himself, so that means it doesn't matter if I hear the call. 】

   "David, it's me."

   ".600 billion, have Lehman Brothers entered the market?"

  “.Well, what about your judgment?”

  “. Well, it’s a fairly correct judgment. This time, you’ll do it yourself.”

  “. This is a test. As long as the results of your test can satisfy me.”

   "Then after that, you will be eligible for a single transaction worth less than 100 million US dollars and a single day of less than 500 million US dollars."

  “.That’s all I ask. But I won’t say more. If I say it, I might as well go back to New York and trade.”

  “.No mistake. You can figure it out. That’s it.”

  “.”

  Abel hangs up the communication on the satellite phone.

  He looked at the LCD TV, lost in thought about other international news.

  The call just now was made by him on his own initiative to David Mellon.

  What he and David Mellon were talking about was after he came to Hawaii for vacation these days.

  Smith Capital initiated an international hedging investment under the operation of David Mellon and some other employees.

  The investment target is the Philippine peso, and the goal is to short the Philippine peso to make a profit.

simply put.

   It is to replay the trick that Soros played against several countries in Southeast Asia.

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

  Those small countries, after nine years of losses, are not so stupid anymore.

   but encounters an appropriate black swan event.

  For example, what happened in the Philippines today.

  International hot money can still be manipulated a little bit.

   That is, the profit will not be particularly exaggerated, and the operation is relatively cumbersome.

  But because the scale is relatively small, the operation is also very cumbersome, and the risk is controllable.

  Abel let Smith Capital try it without his own intervention.

  Look how much money Smith Capital can make just by themselves.

   In other words, this is more than half a year since Smith Capital was established.

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

   Before that, the entire Smith Capital went up and down.

   Only he, the boss, has trading authority.

  Other analysts and traders, their daily task is to collect intelligence and analyze the market.

   They will be busy for a few days when Abel wants to play big.

   This model is undoubtedly very deformed.

  Across Wall Street, no one does this.

  If Abel doesn’t want to make Smith Capital bigger, and has always only used Smith Capital as his own tool.

  That can indeed maintain this deformed pattern.

   But now, under Abel's management.

  Smith Capital + Pacific Bank of Commerce.

  The combination of the two already has the prototype of a Wall Street giant.

   It is still an investment bank + commercial bank model, which has advantages over several other Wall Street investment banks.

  Just as long as this deformity pattern continues.

  It is very difficult for it to grow to the same scale as other Wall Street giants.

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

   In case the time expires, I will be gone.

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

   That is the death of Smith Capital.

  So Abel thought, while his "talent" is still there.

  Smith Capital has also grown in size.

   It's time to scale up Smith Capital, it's time to make it a serious Wall Street giant.

  He thought, gradually opening up the authority step by step.

  First let David Mellon and the company's traders have initial trading authority.

   At the same time, recruit talents widely, under their own supervision.

  In a few years, scale up Smith Capital.

  Strive to make Smith Capital one of the serious Wall Street giants before 2008.

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

   Let them try to short the Philippine peso this time, which is the rhythm of his training.

  If all goes well, Smith Capital will continue to expand its scale and recruit talents.

   Then this is the first time, the military training under the condition that he delegated power.

   Under him, David Mellon, who had almost forgotten his investment skills after staying for a year, was a little unconfident.

   When encountering major or minor matters, if you don’t ask Abel, the boss, you will feel a little worried and doubt yourself.

   Abel was on Charlize just now, just when he output the third time.

  David called.

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

  Thinking about David Mellon's military training, he also wants to care about the process.

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

   So far, David Mellon and the others have passed.

  Smith Capital is involved in this international hot money hedging investment.

  A total investment of about 500 million U.S. dollars, twice the leverage, buying 600 billion Philippine pesos contract positions and shorting.

  It took three days, and the floating profit was more than one million US dollars in the first two days.

   Such a big event happened in the Philippines today, and the Philippine peso quickly went empty.

  This made Smith Capital, which shorted the Philippine peso, a floating profit of more than 10 million U.S. dollars.

  David Mellon was a little unsure. I don't know at this time, whether to continue to hold or arbitrage and leave.

  Abel was on the phone just now, and let David and other traders decide for themselves.

   But in fact, Abel's "talent" told Abel.

   At this time, you should leave directly.

  Philippines economy is like that, and the foreign exchange market is also very small.

  It is already very good to be able to make a profit of 10 to 20 million US dollars.

   At this time, it is best to leave the market directly, and it is safest to leave with arbitrage.

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

  In the entire international foreign exchange market, the Philippines belongs to the kind with relatively small plates.

   Earning a little bit is a little bit, so there is no need to miss it.

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

  Abel was also curious.

   If they do well, Abel will ask them to test a few more times.

   Only after meeting Abel's requirements will he open most of the permissions to them.

   If they are not qualified, they can only let David Mellon and his group of veterans continue to be Abel's own tool man traders.

  Abel will recruit investment managers who can invest from the outside.

   Anyway, Abel has made up his mind to expand the scale of Smith Capital.

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

  This company can also make money normally like a big investment bank.

   To be a Wall Street giant, you have to look like a Wall Street giant!

  Thinking like this, he stood up.

   Turning around, she saw Lydia Hearst beside her, looking at Abel herself, she seemed to be in a daze.

  Of course he knew that Lydia hadn't left.

   But just like Lydia thought.

  Abel felt that this was not a big secret, and it didn't matter if the girl heard it.

  Looking at Lydia's silly eyes at this time, he smiled and said:

   "Miss Hurst? Lydia? Lydia?"

   "Huh?" Lydia woke up startled.

  It was only then that she realized that she was a little dazed when she looked at Abel's handsome profile just now.

   This is a bit of a faux pas.

   Lydia blushed suddenly.

  (end of this chapter)