Many smart people have already seen that Apple's new autumn products will suffer a huge impact since the news related to the Xinghai new product launch conference last month was very popular on global social media, so they immediately chose to buy Apple short orders.
Anyway, the U.S. stock market is known for its freedom and openness, and there is no shortage of options for investors who want to get rich instantly.
Then, it wasn't just these smart people who saw that Apple stock would do poorly in the market.
Apple knows it too.
Naturally, many capital giants are well-informed groups, and they are all gearing up.
Then, they made completely opposite decisions based on the analytical models provided by countless elites under their command who spent a lot of effort.
Among them, several giants with considerable say are themselves shareholders of Apple.
As a result, subsequent developments far exceeded the predictions of many smart people, and Apple's stock price rose slightly with little daily fluctuations.
In this way, time flies by.
Finally, we waited until Apple’s new product launch conference was held. As expected, Apple really came out with the most disappointing new iPhone products and series in history.
Countless smart people saw the disappointing atmosphere at the press conference through the Internet and immediately celebrated.
However……
Apple's stock price only fell slightly that day, which immediately made many smart people's hearts sink. Among them, the smartest among smart people, accounting for less than one ten thousandth of the players, decisively chose to cut their flesh and leave the market.
They are lucky.
Because what happened next greatly exceeded all expectations!
No mainstream authoritative media in Europe and the United States has commented on Apple's new products, although social media platforms have been furious!
Not only that, the group headed by Apple officials are particularly dissatisfied with the outcry from online netizens, and continue to speak out in various ways, as if Apple has become the savior overnight, and they are all praising Apple.
The tolerance for Apple's new hip-slimming products has reached a peak, ignoring the existence of competing products and only focusing on bragging about the insignificant new features of Apple's new products.
Then, Apple's stock price pulled off an extremely rare 19% daily rise.
Based on the original high market value of more than 450 billion U.S. dollars, Apple's market value surged by more than 30 billion U.S. dollars in one day. The massive short orders that had caught up to the trough last month were forced to liquidate in batches.
Countless smart people went bankrupt in an instant.
No one pities them.
The main discussions on Twitter, range, xiaochengshu, Facebook and other platforms are:
[How long can Apple’s high stock price bubble last? Who is the real lucky person? 】
Because in addition to a large number of smart people, more Leek investors choose to go long.
"The more shorts there are, the more profits the longs will make. What's more, facing such a huge crisis, how could Apple not have some countermeasures? There will be at least some rescue measures. If it is exploited and plummets, how can Apple survive, right?"
"Although it is an afterthought, there is no problem with this truth. Judging from public opinion, it is obvious that there are forces strongly supporting Apple. This is a feast for certain groups."
"Fortunately, I don't like short selling. I usually only buy stocks and hold them for the long term. Today I found that the Apple stock I hold has risen a lot."
"I chose Apple among Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Unexpectedly, the first two have been falling recently, but Apple has bucked the trend and risen."
"I don't know how long it can last. This is a bubble-like rise."
"..."
"I guess there are no truly lucky people."
"Probably not. The short sellers are the lucky ones who deliver in time today, and the long sellers will be the lucky ones who deliver today. No one can understand how it will develop tomorrow."
"..."
As we all know, capital is full of plunder, greed, and blood.
As some good-hearted netizens said, the lucky ones are the ones who deliver in time today. No one knows what will happen tomorrow.
And those short position holders who have not yet been liquidated are already standing on the edge of the cliff.
The smartest wave has stopped losses in time.
The less intelligent ones are powerless after the forced liquidation, some of the remaining ones can't bear to leave the market, and the last ones are full of illusions.
They believe the situation will not continue to 'get worse'.
They are still expecting a miracle.
They have not even considered that the reason why they can participate in short selling is because there are platforms provided, and behind these platforms are also greedy capital.
While many capital giants, including some of Apple's competitors such as Microsoft Gates, stock gods and others, maintain a tacit understanding of long positions, the market has become an open sickle.
On the 11th Eastern Time, Apple's stock continued to rise against the trend, with a gain of 58% at the close of trading.
Apple’s market value once again exceeded the $500 billion mark!
In this rise, judging from publicly available data, more than 90% of Apple's short orders have disappeared, leaving only a few "die-hards".
The publicly available data here refers to general investors, that is, leeks.
The short orders actually held by some of them triggered forced liquidation, which also led to massive buying, further boosting the rise in Apple's stock price.
Because according to the basic short-selling method, they borrow stocks from the intermediary platform to sell them first, and then buy them when they are at a low point. When the stock price continues to rise compared to the selling stock price, the forced liquidation mechanism will inevitably be triggered, resulting in high-level buying.
Order, that is, buy the stock and return it to the intermediate platform.
This is not over yet!
On the 12th, Eastern Time, the mainstream online news is still in favor of Apple. Even if there are rivals like Bolang behind the scenes, they are crazy about marketing Apple's new products and are extremely unsuccessful, constantly letting the public know about Apple's new products, but... the will of capital to join forces
still.
At the close of the day, Apple's stock price rose again by 31%.
As a result, the last bit of short leeks also suffered a liquidation.
Even according to rumors, some large private short sellers also encountered risks and had to partially cut their profits.
You must know that the general direction of the U.S. stock market is in a downward trend.
More than 60% of technology stocks on the market are falling, including Microsoft and Google, the top three technology stocks in the US stock market by market value.
This is still not over!
The greed of capital is always so beyond imagination.
The endless reason is that Apple’s new products on the 13th will officially accept online pre-orders in 9 regions around the world!
Reservations on Apple's official website require full payment in advance. Xinghai had previously implemented a reservation system rather than a pre-order system in both domestic and overseas markets.
And the 13th is Friday.
As soon as the time comes, the reservation entrance opens, and the marketing promotion is immediately filled... In order to achieve the best results, Apple has made a lot of efforts.
Soon, Apple officials directly took to social media platforms to proactively promote new product pre-orders. In a short period of time, the total pre-orders for 5C/5S exceeded one million units.
Then countless media outlets began to praise Apple, as if they had already discussed it.
He also gave an estimate of Apple's first-week sales after it was officially launched on the 20th, believing that sales in the first week could exceed at least 8 million units, and are expected to exceed 9 million units, up to and including 10 million units... In fact, if there is no Xinghai, this would be
First-week sales of Apple's new products in a year have exceeded 9 million units.
The reason has little to do with the launch in the Chinese market. It is mainly due to the brand heritage and the fact that the 5S has many selling points.
Because at that time, the 5S was the world's first smartphone equipped with fingerprint unlocking, the world's first mobile phone equipped with a 64-bit processor architecture SoC... and many other world-first gimmicks.
You must know that as soon as the A7 chip came out at that time, Qualcomm was forced into a panic, and then...it forced out Qualcomm's first generation Fire Dragon, Snapdragon 810.
Because the A7 processor uses a 64-bit architecture, ARM
The v8 architecture, which is Bolang’s first generation of unnamed chips with some self-designed components, is used on Xinghai 1.
Qualcomm also rushed to v8 and used TSMC's 20nm process. As a result, it could not suppress the power consumption at all. Anyway, the impact was quite large. One of the impacts on the domestic market was that MI did not dare to release a digital flagship phone.
Now Qualcomm is already in full swing.
However, as early as May, Star Semiconductor publicly issued a friendly risk warning, mainly targeting Qualcomm. It is not known whether Qualcomm has the ability to solve the power consumption problem.
Anyway...
In a time and space without a sea of stars, Apple's new products could be praised, and the sales would indeed be considerable.
As a result, with the tacit praise of all parties, Apple's stock continued to rise on the 13th, Eastern Time, with a slight increase of 02%.
The market value is as high as more than 535 billion US dollars.
However, unlike the previous two days when the intraday amplitude was small, the amplitude today was very large. The difference between the lowest intraday price and the closing price was nearly $30.
The reason for such a large amplitude is that many behind-the-scenes capitals have a tacit understanding to start taking delivery and leave the market, leaving the market to Leeks.
Because everyone knows how high the bubble level of Apple’s stock price is in this round.
The members who left the market also included the portion held by Wen Liang’s asset management company. After four more trading days, the final funds leaving the market reached US$2.7 billion.
If you count up to this point and count Apple's stock alone, you have already made a profit of 700 million U.S. dollars. According to the real-time exchange rate, it is almost 800 million yuan.
but……
This game has been going on for so long, how could it end so hastily?
Let’s put it this way, asset management companies currently have a total of 12 billion U.S. dollars of restricted “idle” funds in their U.S. stock accounts, and there is basically no funds that can be directly withdrawn.
2.7 billion of them were those who had just sold out and were long Apple, but they became guaranteed funds.
About 4 billion are short-selling companies including Microsoft, Google, etc., because the short-selling of these companies has already started as early as last month. At that time, the funds for borrowing stocks and selling them were always there, but the contract restricted the short-selling before closing the positions.
Use.
The remaining approximately 5.3 billion are the latest positions to short Apple, which are also subject to contract constraints.
…………
All major overseas social media platforms went crazy.
Nearly one-third of the entries on lists such as Hot List are related to the U.S. stock market and Apple stock.
There is no way, in just five working days a week, ‘victims’ are all over the world, and the total number is staggering!
As the number of victims increases, the number of people watching and eating melons increases.
"It's so cruel, it's so cruel. According to reports, nearly 10 million people have been harmed by the abnormal rise in Apple's stock price!!"
"There must be an inside story. Apple must be manipulating the stock market!"
"..."
The news once ignited the gossip enthusiasm of domestic netizens.
Although most of them go to the theater.
But many people still expressed their opinions.
It was inevitable to bring Bolang with me.
"The free breadth of the U.S. stock market is really scary. A small wave of it will directly involve market turmoil on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars, and it will almost catch up with the market valuation of the entire Bolang Group."
"Tens of millions of people were damaged, it's crazy."
"It seems that Apple's brand effect is still strong. Even if this new product is nothing new and is far inferior to Xinghai's new product, there are still many consumers around the world who are willing to pay for it!"
"After all, it is Apple, and the new product is not unacceptable. It can even be said to be the best smartphone except Star Ocean 2."
"Bolang's background is still a bit poor. I saw that the Internet is talking about the comparison between Apple's new products and Xinghai's new products. The gap is very obvious, but the market still actively chooses Apple. No matter what the process is, the result is this."
"It is not easy to become a world-famous mobile phone brand and maintain the image of high-end mobile phones. From Apple's smartphone craze to establishing its market position, it has also gone through three and a half years of iterative evolution before and after three generations of mobile phones. Xinghai is only in its second generation.
It has been less than a year, and it has been six and a half years since Apple released the iPhone in early 2007 and has gone through seven generations of products. The background is too different, not to mention that it has been 33 years since Apple was founded."
"It can only be said that the current smartphone market is still in the chaotic early stages, and it is still uncertain how it will develop next. Of course, it must be admitted that the competition between Xinghai and Apple in 2013 will definitely leave a mark in the history of mobile phone development.
Strokes.”
"..."
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Later after the U.S. stock market closed on the 13th Eastern Time, on the morning of the 14th China time, some people were sitting in the office of General Manager Bolang.
It seems because today is Saturday IFC
There were no people working on the entire 65th floor. The quiet atmosphere spread here and there was no sound in the office.
It's not that everyone doesn't want to talk.
But... our boss, Mr. Wen, is slowly making tea. His movements are not elegant or anything like that, but he is more skilled than others. Everyone is willing to do it without disturbing us.
The atmosphere became lively only when cups of tea were pushed to each of them.
"From the summary of information from all aspects, the giants have turned from long to short. It is estimated that the mainstream negative reports that have been suppressed will be released."
Chen Jiaxin was the first to speak.
"Mainly, the overseas communication capabilities of range, xiaochengshu, Weibo, and QQ are still not as good as those of local platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Especially, the influence gap among American netizens is quite large."
No one here was surprised by this.
The communication efficiency in the Internet information age is many times faster than before. It is not at the same level at all. However, the problem at the same time is that its communication effect is very dependent on the platform.
You can use all kinds of tricks and the platform will actively block you. There is nothing you can do.
A relatively big example is: Depp was very angry in 2022 when he learned that Facebook had suppressed the spread of a certain news in 2020 because the authorities hinted that it would cause Depp to shout the slogan of re-competition.
The current example is that due to the delay in development of Bolang's influential social media platform, the combined voice dissemination is not as powerful as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms that are influenced by various types of capital.
Subsequently, both Wang Wanyu and Li Ze made some summary information announcements.
Then Li Ze said: "The stock of Xinghai 2/2 Pro in major Western markets such as Western Europe and North America is basically in place and can be opened for sale at any time. The American authorities have no intention of blocking our online sales. Can we open it for purchase?
?”
Wen Liang thought for a moment and replied: "Don't worry, we won't be the first to take the lead this time. According to the information you collected, there are more people who are more irresistible than us. We just need to be the one who breaks the camel's back."
Just some straw.”
Chen Jiaxin was a little worried: "Won't Apple's brand heritage make a big comeback in the market?"
"No." Li Ze said firmly, "The overall experience gap of the product, as well as Apple's after-sales strategy, even if it takes the lead at the beginning, it will quickly collapse later."
"understood."
And, the next development unfolded just as Wen Liang said...
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