Chapter 239

Melbourne.

These days, Anthony Johnston deliberately put down his work to help Simon deal with the operation of the Japanese financial market.

In more than two weeks, the North American side successfully completed the cash out of the technology stock market, and the funds from Australia also came to the account one after another. The final capital scale reached US $1.570 billion. Among them, Simon's capital is US $500 million, Johnston's is US $100 million, and other capital forces in Australia are US $970 million.

In fact, there are also many people in North America who want to invest in the market recently, but Simon refuses this time.

More than US $1.5 billion is already a big goal. Leading Australian capital into the market, Simon believes that the Johnston family will certainly be able to turn this friendship into real contacts and interests.

In North America, although Simon has an American identity, he has little connection with local forces, and it is impossible to build a deep friendship with each other just by making a lot of money.

In fact, Simon has unconsciously come up with the idea of building the Australian Gang into his own backing. Of course, the Australian Gang here is definitely not the Australian filmmakers in Hollywood, but the local capital forces in Australia.

The pattern of plutocrats in the United States has been shaped for many years. Simon, a new capital tycoon, can't compete with the old plutocrats after all, and he doesn't have any idea of which side to attach to.

Therefore, Simon must have more chips to ensure that his industry can continue to expand.

In the confrontation between capital, the chip is capital after all.

Australia's economy is still small, but it is a country after all.

Simon gathers Australian capital forces together through interest connections, forming a chaebol force no less than any of the old American consortia. Moreover, as long as it operates properly, Simon can even gain the dominant position of Australian capital forces.

Now that it's going to be formal, Simon has officially registered a hedge fund in the Caymans.

Compared with onshore funds that need to pay taxes on time every year, the biggest advantage of offshore hedge funds is that as long as the funds are not transferred back to China, they do not need to pay high capital gains tax, and fund holders can repeatedly use the funds that should be used as taxes for capital operation.

Although it does not intend to operate for a long time, the fund always needs a name.

Simon once again sacrificed game of power, naming the hedge fund cersei capital, code named "bad woman.". Moreover, like Denise entertainment and melisandro, cersei capital also takes westero as its holding parent company.

Simon has set up five sub funds controlled by cersei capital, and the capital scale of each sub fund is about $300 million.

Affected by a series of other hot events such as the Wall Street Journal article and Simon's statement at the beginning of this month, the trading of Japanese financial market in February was very active, and Simon quickly completed the preliminary layout after getting the funds.

As of the last trading day of the week on February 17, five sub funds controlled by cersei capital have established Nikkei 225 index futures long contracts with a total value of about US $7 billion in Singapore and Osaka respectively.

Simon is very clear about his advantages. What he can judge more accurately is the macro trend of Japan's economy.

The average positions of these stock index futures contracts are between 32200 and 32700 points.

If cersei capital can maintain a bull size of about $7 billion in the next few months, and the Nikkei 225 index reaches 37000 points in Simon's plan to leave the market, only this investment will bring in $1 billion in profits.

Long contracts with a total value of US $7 billion only use less than half of cersei's capital in terms of margin. The volume of Nikkei 225 index futures is limited after all. Although Singapore and Osaka still do not have strict position restrictions at this time, Simon can not increase his position without restrictions because of the lack of takers.

With the remaining funds, Simon began to let the trading teams of the five sub funds operate freely. Japan's stock, bond futures, stock index options and even several other capital markets in Asia are the hunting targets of cersei capital.

Just at the end of this week, cersei capital's trading team successfully completed a beautiful Japanese government bond futures operation.

As a series of news in early February stimulated the rapid rise of the Japanese stock market, people from all walks of life speculated that the Bank of Japan would have to issue an interest rate increase policy as soon as possible to curb excessive speculation in the market.

Usually, the result of interest rate increase will lead to the decline of the price of government bonds. If hedge funds wait for the opportunity to short, they can get rich returns.

But Simon remembers that in the original time and space, the Bank of Japan did not announce its first interest rate increase in several years until May. At that time, Japan's stock and property markets had already missed the best time to prevent market collapse through tightening policies.

Even if history has changed, Simon doesn't think the Japanese government will raise interest rates three months in advance.The news of speculation caused a market shock. All sectors of Japan, which have been immersed in the illusion of Japan's economic prosperity, do not want to break this situation as a last resort.

According to this judgment, cersei capital's trading team started to set up a total of US $6 billion Japanese government bond futures positions since last week, half of which are long and half short.

The margin ratio of government bonds is only 3%, which is about 33 times the leverage.

With the further spread of the news that the Bank of Japan is about to raise interest rates, Japanese government bond futures fell at the beginning of this week, and the trading team closed short positions in time before Wednesday.

Then, on Thursday morning, a spokesman for Japan's Ministry of Finance publicly clarified that the BoJ had no intention to introduce an interest rate increase plan in the near future.

Japanese bond futures rose in response.

Simon was not greedy, and asked the sub fund trading teams to level off all long positions before Friday.

The volatility of government bond futures is usually small, which is why investment leverage can exceed 30 times. However, this week, cersei capital still made 36 million dollars.

In fact, some inside information was used in this operation, otherwise cersei capital would not be able to close short positions before Thursday.

Japan's rapid economic growth in recent years, especially the development of the real estate industry, has led to a substantial increase in the demand for various types of mining resources. Australia happens to be a country rich in mining resources.

Therefore, the economic ties between Japan and Australia have been very close over the years, as have all walks of life in politics and business. The johnstons have a large-scale subsidiary in Japan, which is managed by Norman Johnston, Janet's second brother.

Japan's Ministry of finance will issue a clarification on Thursday from Norman Johnston, who was on a business trip in Tokyo recently.

Simon didn't feel guilty about it or worried about being found out.

Many well-known hedge funds in my memory have invited a large number of politicians to join the board of directors. For example, Margaret Thatcher, who is still in office, joined the famous Tiger Fund in the 1990s.

Probably no one is naive enough to think that these hedge funds invite politicians to join them to consult them.

On the other hand, affected by the rumors of interest rate increase, Japan's stock market also fell into turmoil this week, with a drop of 236 points on Monday's opening day.

By the end of February 17, the Nikkei 225 index had risen 76 points to 38897 points, compared with 38821 points at the end of last Friday. Compared with the huge gains from the operation of Japan's bond futures, cersei capital's long stock index futures made a Book profit of only $13.71 million this week.

February 18, Saturday.

Because most of Batman's stories take place in the evening, and yesterday was still a night film.

This situation will probably last until the middle of March, and the last few weeks will be in the studio, so Simon doesn't need to turn the clock upside down.

Melbourne does not have the professional studios like the major studios in Los Angeles. During this period, the props team of the crew has been building "bat cave" and other film related scenes in an abandoned factory in the western suburb of Melbourne.

Although it was the weekend, during this period of time, an additional three hours of work were added every day to take care of cersei capital, but the habit had been formed. Simon still woke up on time after only five hours of sleep.

Breakfast was with Anthony Johnston.

Out of caution, the dining place is not in the Kendall Hotel Restaurant, but a nearby coffee shop that provides breakfast.

Simon does not expect cersei capital's operation to be absolutely confidential. He only hopes to control the information within a certain range as far as possible. However, because Simon's record in 1987 was so brilliant, the people who watched him this time were all pervasive.

Anthony Johnston, who works with Simon to run cersei capital for the time being, helps improve the confidentiality measures. The team also hired a retired official from Australia's national security department as a consultant.

The telephone of Simon hotel suite has now been transformed into encrypted special line, and the daily meeting with sub fund managers and analyst teams to discuss investment strategy is not in the hotel, but in the headquarters building of Johnston holding group in downtown Melbourne.

Even, in order to avoid disclosing cersei's various investment positions, the five sub fund teams do not know each other very well.

Anthony also told Simon in private that he arranged people to monitor each team in private. Once he found that there was an insider, he would eliminate it immediately.

Simon is very satisfied with Anthony's arrangement. At least, regular anti eavesdropping detection can make him not worry about the appearance of eavesdroppers in his room again.

Simon feels numb every time he thinks about the Manhattan Plaza Hotel.

There are not many people in the coffee shop on the weekend morning. Simon and Anthony are sitting in the corner near the window, and two bodyguards are sitting nearby to prevent outsiders from approaching.After chatting casually, Anthony mentioned cersei capital's "meager" earnings in the stock index futures market last week. He thought Simon was a little too conservative.

Simon took a sip of the juice, put down his glass and explained, "Tony, you must have seen how I worked on S & P 500 futures. Just like last time, what I bet on is a macro trend. As long as the Japanese stock market continues to rise, our position in Nikkei 225 index futures can get a very stable and rich return. As for government bond futures, there are too many variables. We made money last week, but we may lose everything next week. In my opinion, many excellent hedge funds are driven by this impulse to get more, but they reduce their profitability. "

Anthony Johnston has learned from Simon about his goals.

Compared with that time in 1987, Simon's goal of this operation can be said to be very low. He only expects cersei capital's capital to double before Japan's market turns. No matter how much, he will never be extravagant. After catching up, Simon will be satisfied to earn some profits to pay taxes and Commission for the trading team.

If the Japanese stock market can adhere to the same trend as in the original time and space, Simon can just turn his attention to the crude oil futures market by completing the operation here.

Of course, Simon also knows that because of the influence of his big butterfly, it is not realistic to have such expectations now. However, he still firmly locked the peak of the Japanese market at around 38000 and planned to exit from 37000.

Maybe it will crash ahead of time, maybe it will break through 40000 by accident.

But it's not.

In any case, Simon will restrain his fear of early collapse and greed for the market to be higher, and stick to his goal.

Similarly, knowing his real strength, Simon will not take too risky investment strategy. He has planned to invest the surplus funds in the Japanese stock market as much as possible.

Compared with the ever-changing financial derivatives market, the risk of direct speculation in stocks is very low. At least half a year's bull market cycle is enough to ensure cersei capital to get a very rich report.

Anthony Johnston has been warned by his father not to interfere with Simon's decision cleverly. He just needs to ensure that Simon can complete the operation without any distractions.

Listening to Simon's explanation, Anthony stopped at the right time and said with a smile, "OK, Simon. Your birthday is coming. You have to celebrate it. Are you going to arrange it by yourself or me? Oh, Jennie will probably be here in two days

Simon is not polite, said: "Tony, then trouble you, next Wednesday I will give the crew a day off, the guest list is up to you to decide."

Anthony nodded and said, "in that case, let's go to the mansion in the suburb. I'll start preparing the party tomorrow."

After breakfast, Simon went back to the hotel.

As usual, Jennifer has a stack of documents Simon needs to review.

Leaning on the leather chair, Simon was surprised to see Nancy Brill's plan for the blockbuster data analysis team and the movie database. He did not expect that this woman had put forward the concept of "big data" with such foresight before the Internet era.

If you add Internet to the movie database, it is obviously IMDB (Internet Movie Database). Amazon acquired IMDB for DVD and video online sales, and Netflix used the big data concept to stabilize the dominant position of streaming media.

Now, a little woman comes up with both at once.