Chapter 298 Investment Genius
Have you looked at the weather forecast?
As Zhou Ming asked this question, Alfonso's eyes suddenly turned into a pair of copper bells, and he looked at Zhou Ming with great angriness, and he had ten thousand words in his heart. He wanted to say that he clearly remembered that he was discussing financial investment issues with Zhou Ming just now, and God knew why he suddenly asked about the weather.
Not only Alfonso, but everyone else in the office looked at Zhou Ming with a confused look on his face, obviously not understanding either.
Alfonso quickly calmed down and sneered: "The weather is usually used to eliminate embarrassment when the topic is very embarrassing. So now Zhou Ming, you said this, it seems that you have already admitted defeat and don't know how to continue."
Zhou Ming sighed heavily and said regretfully: "It seems you really don't understand anything!"
Listening to Zhou Ming's words, Alfonso felt that his IQ was insulted. He said angrily: "I think you really don't understand anything. What we have been discussing just now is the stock of Lisheng Food Company. Why do you tell me about weather issues? Don't tell me that this will be related to stocks, and it will definitely be more ridiculous than the clown in the circus!"
"If you say that there is something wrong with Lisheng's products, or the tariff increase causes product prices to rise, which will force the stock to fall, I can understand this, but the weather, please be honest, I have never heard of a tornado in Ireland that can shave a company's stock, unless you know how to divine, know that the tornado will shave the company's warehouse into the sky."
Alfonso said to Zhou Ming very exaggeratedly, and laughed out loud with disdain. Under Alfonso's leadership, the rest of the office also felt that Zhou Ming's words were quite unreliable.
"Where did the Chinese come from? Do he understand investment or not? How come he still has the face to stay here?"
"What a bullshit weather reason? I think he made a fool of himself in a hurry. Now that he has been exposed, he has been speechless. This is just a clown!"
"But I hope to see his divination and maybe you can know the horoscope tomorrow. Maybe the factory of Lisheng Food Company was really blown away by a tornado? We always have to be full of respect for these fantasy things, such as letting them get out gracefully!"
Facing these people's ridicule, Zhou Ming shook his head and said, "Is this the vision of Zarago Fund Company? It seems that I am a little disappointed. In fact, the rise and fall of a company's stock is not simply related to the company's operating conditions. Other places that seem to have no connection often convey some unexpected information, such as the weather forecast I mentioned just now."
Zhou Ming's explanation attracted a burst of booing and ridicule, but Zhou Ming didn't care, but continued: "I don't know how to divine. I can only associate and speculate that coffee is a very important product of Lisheng Food Company. Whether it is mocha or latte, its raw materials are coffee beans. So do you know coffee beans?"
Regarding this question, Zhou Ming was given a sarcasm: "I'm sorry we are not farmers in the tropical rainforest. If you have any interest in this area, we may be able to help you apply to the Ministry of Agriculture!"
"With your current attitude, I can give you a narrow-minded evaluation of your current narrow attitude!"
Zhou Ming suddenly said solemnly: "Let me tell you that coffee beans are a very delicate crop. They have very strict requirements on temperature and precipitation. Any large temperature or precipitation changes can easily cause the quality of coffee beans to decline, and even more serious ones will cause the production of coffee beans to be reduced. Therefore, the cultivation of coffee beans is in a circular area between the Tropic of Cancer, such as Brazil."
"Brazil is a very important coffee bean production area and is also the main source of coffee beans for Lisheng Food Company. However, this year's weather forecast shows that there is a very serious cold wave there, which will directly affect the growth of coffee beans. Do you understand what I say?" Zhou Ming asked.
When Zhou Ming finished his words, both Alfonso and other employees of the Zarago Fund were shocked.
The words have already been said, how could they not understand? Obviously, it was the cold wave that caused the reduction of Brazilian coffee bean production, which directly affected the raw material supply of Lisheng Food Company. Although Lisheng Food Company is not without a solution, it is undoubtedly very bad from this news alone. Lisheng Food Company's stock will inevitably fall due to this news.
"But since that's the case, why is Lisheng Food Company doing now?" someone asked curiously.
This problem also resonated very much. After all, the subtle increase of Lisheng Food Company is very strange no matter how you look at it.
However, this time, Zhou Ming didn't need to explain it. Alfonso replied directly: "That's a trap."
The answer shocked everyone. Alfonso continued: "The news about Brazil's coffee bean production has not been made public yet. Many investors and investment institutions have not noticed this, just like us, so Lisheng Food Company took advantage of the situation to absorb chips and take advantage of the situation. After our funds are invested, the stock price will naturally rise, they will immediately withdraw and use the money of us and other investors to survive the crisis."
Although many people had guessed something when they heard the trap, when Alfonso really said it, everyone still gasped.
When the crisis was approaching, he was not panicked at all, and even set up such a trap to trap money from the stock market to make up for the crisis faced by the company. This is such a big deal! No wonder Lisheng Food Company was able to develop from a food agency that started to become a multinational company in a few years.
It can be imagined that with the excellent operation of Lisheng Food Company, I don’t know how many world-renowned investors and fund companies will be cheated.
However, while admiring the great wisdom of the leadership team of Lisheng Food Company, many people also thought of Zhou Ming because he saw through the other party's operations at one glance. What kind of ability does this have? Just because he took a look at the computer, he just remembered the weather forecast he had seen, and he could predict a trap in the stock market. This is no longer a legend, but the thing has risen to an incredible fantasy.
"I have to say, Mr. Zhou Ming, you are so amazing!" Alfonso said sincerely.
Alfonso really admires Zhou Ming. Unlike other people, he has always claimed to be a private equity elite and knows very well that investment is indeed a very broad subject. In this subject, many seemingly unrelated things can actually be connected together. As long as you are good at discovering and thinking diligently, in the end you must have extensive knowledge comparable to a professor.
Alfonso remembers that he had met an investment analyst a long time ago. He accurately predicted the rise in the stock of a fighter aircraft manufacturing company from a war that took place in the Middle East. The reason was that air combat played an increasingly important role in the war, and he found that the equipment of the British Air Force was relatively outdated. After comparing the war in the Middle East, the Royal Army would definitely update the equipment and increase the huge arms orders.
Alfonso still remembers another thing, which was his teacher when he was in college. Once his teacher met a farmer who grew potatoes and came to the city to buy insecticides. The teacher immediately realized that the ladybugs he had seen would cause great harm to the growth of potatoes. The farmers who rushed to the city to buy insecticides mean that the ladybugs must have caused disasters in the fields.
Because a farmer who grows potatoes all year round will not be without pesticides, and now his rush to buy it proves that this year's insect disaster is more severe than before. Then this will definitely not be a single situation, it will be a large-scale and universal nationwide.
So the teacher went back and shorted the potatoes in the futures market, and finally made a big profit.
These things sound like dreamy fairy tales, but they were seen by Alfonso with his own eyes. So the same is true for Zhou Ming now. After seeing his order, he remembered the weather forecast he had seen, and then linked the two things together to draw a conclusion.
Just thinking about such a thing makes people feel like a fantasy, but now Zhou Ming has done it, which is amazing.
But although it was amazing, it made him extremely embarrassed, but it made him extremely embarrassed because he remembered that he had just criticized him and said that he didn't understand finance or investment, and he also laughed at him as a clown who couldn't speak. Now isn't this equivalent to slapping himself in the face?
Before Alfonso's embarrassment spread to the entire office, Zhou Ming reminded Alfonso: "Since you have recognized my guess, I think you should reset the direction for this investment next."
After Zhou Ming said this, Afangsuo woke up from his dream. He nodded quickly: "It is indeed necessary to adjust, but what should I do? Do I have to buy it now and fall?"
"That's not necessary." Zhou Ming told him, "You can continue to buy up as you go. Anyway, Lisheng Food Company will not easily let the stock price fall before saving enough capital, so you can follow them to push up the stock price. When it is estimated that the good news about Lisheng Food Company is suddenly exposed and the stock price begins to soar, you can start to withdraw."
After saying that, Zhou Ming thought about it and continued, "In addition, don't always focus on Lisheng Food Company. After all, Brazil is an important production area of coffee beans all over the world. Now that Brazil has reduced production, it will definitely affect the whole world. Although there may not be a large price fluctuation, it will definitely affect it. Perhaps this can also develop channels."
Alfonso immediately took over Zhou Ming's words and said: "So Mr. Zhou Ming, you mean that we can also enter the futures market now, and buy a large amount of coffee futures when the price is still stable. When the Brazilian coffee production report comes out, and when the global coffee futures price starts to rise, we choose to raise the price and sell it, and we can make another profit."
Zhou Ming smiled seriously and said, "You can teach me!"
Chapter completed!