Kitahara Sosuke didn't pay much attention to the unusual noise outside and continued to sign. After completing the account opening and position building agreement, he only needed to transfer rice gold into the new account to purchase the WTI crude oil futures contract on the market.
The so-called shorting of futures means that you are bearish on a certain future, borrow a large number of contracts at the expected highest value, and then sell them at this price. As long as you fulfill the contract within the performance period, you will buy an equal amount of contracts from the market after the price drops.
Close the position to complete the transaction.
The amount you earn is the price spread multiplied by the number of contracts you hold multiplied by your leverage.
The 8% margin rate signed by Kitahara Sosuke means that the leverage reaches 12 times. As long as the oil price rises by more than 8%, he will immediately liquidate his position and lose everything!
But there is no profit without risks. Kitahara Sosuke has been preparing for this for so long in the early stage because he intends to make a big fortune from this Gulf War!
In his memory, after the war started, the oil price rose all the way to 39.2 meters of gold per barrel that day, until an hour before the final closing, it suddenly began to fall, and finally ended at 38.6 meters of gold per barrel.
From then on, during the 46-day Gulf War, oil prices plummeted until three days before the end of the war, when oil prices fell to a record low of 16.6 meters of gold per barrel!
Kitahara Sosuke studied this period of history purely because of the huge impact and influence the Gulf War had on China's new era of military construction concepts. He was curious about what kind of war it was, and studying the Gulf War cannot avoid this period.
The legendary oil war.
Like the outcome of the Gulf War, the rise and fall of oil prices also surprised the world.
The most intriguing thing is that after reviewing the analysis afterwards, Kitahara Sosuke found that the lowest point of oil prices was the day before Saddam announced his acceptance of the ceasefire. The day after the lowest point, before Saddam announced his acceptance of the ceasefire, the oil price began to rise. By the time he
It was officially announced that the price of oil has risen from 16.6 meters of gold per barrel to 18.3 meters of gold per barrel, an increase of slightly more than 10%.
This increase is enough to blow up many short-selling VIP customers of futures trading companies, causing them to lose all their money.
The previous decline has led to the hope that the war will bring huge benefits, and the big bosses who are unwilling to give up will meet on the rooftop.
For this reason, Kitahara Sosuke lamented the United States' superb financial micro-management capabilities. During this period, the internal turmoil in the Soviet Union was already very chaotic, but no one outside knew it. They did not even have the energy to oppose the United States on the world stage.
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The Gulf War was originally the best chance for the Soviet Union to have a final fight with the United States, but it ended up being the perfect beginning for the United States to achieve a superpower with many powers.
By virtue of its victory in the Gulf War, the United States controlled oil prices in the Middle East and became a veritable superpower. At the same time, it harvested the wealth of Japan and other Asian brothers, and gave Japan a hard lesson in the fantasy of riding on its father's head to shit and pee.
Kitahara Sosuke is thinking about these historical events in his mind. What he has to do now is to wait and see whether the next increase or decrease in oil prices is as he expected. Even if his own capital is leveraged 12 times, it will only be 15.96 billion meters in gold.
The total amount of funds is nothing compared to the real behemoth.
The only people who can control oil prices are the U.S. government and the top financial groups involved in this matter. They manipulated the oil price to rise by 8% in order to get their own 1.33 billion meters of gold. For this purpose, they consumed far more manpower, material and financial resources than the 1.33 billion meters of gold.
No normal person would do such a stupid thing.
"Strange, why did Romon go out for so long?" Kitahara Sosuke glanced at the closed door. He was so absorbed in thinking that he didn't pay attention to what was going on outside. The sound insulation effect of the VIP room is very good, but if you listen carefully, you can still hear it.
There were subtle shouts and screams.
Wait, why are there screams...
Kithara Sosuke and Ruth looked at each other.
Ruth obviously heard the strange noise. She quickly ran to the desk, opened the locked drawer, and took out a black pistol from inside.
"Please stand behind me, Mr. Kitahara, and Miss Fujiwara as well." Ruth's hand holding the gun trembled slightly, and it was obvious that she was very nervous.
Ruth's movements made Fujiwara Norika a little scared. She approached Kitahara Sosuke and gently pulled the corner of his clothes.
"Woman, give me a gun." Kazuma Yamada looked solemn and stretched out his hand towards Ruth.
"Miss Ruth, my bodyguard said to give him a gun and he will use it." Kitahara Sosuke repeated it in English.
Ruth nodded slightly, moved towards the desk, and took out a black pistol and handed it to Kazuma Yamada.
The noise outside is getting louder and louder.
Then a girl's voice seemed to be calling.
boom!
The closed door was hit hard by something.
The girl outside spoke louder, but it was not the English that Kitahara Sosuke was familiar with. She spoke very fast, and he didn't know what country's language it was.
"Da da da--"
This time the sound was more obvious, it was the loud sound of a submachine gun hitting the door!
Fortunately, the door was bulletproof and this round of shooting did not break it open.
"What's going on? Even in the United States, a building in the city center would not be attacked so blatantly by terrorists!" Kitahara Sosuke's whole body tensed up. The sudden change made him extremely depressed.
Is America really happy, with gunfights every day?
"I'll call the police right away." Ruth ran to dial 911, then her face gradually darkened, "The phone can't be reached..."
The girl's voice was still chirping outside, and she seemed a little impatient.
Then Luo Meng's voice came faintly.
"No, don't do this... I'll open the door, I'll open the door right away!"
Kithara Sosuke's heart sank, and he immediately stood up and pulled Fujiwara Norika behind him, who was still trying to rush in front of him. He slapped the idiot Norika's butt hard, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Be honest, don't make any more trouble."
"Oh." Fujiwara Norika's first reaction was to block in front of Kitahara Sosuke, but she was not as strong as him. After being spanked, she stood behind him honestly.
Kazuma Yamada stood in front of Kitahara Sosuke with a gun in both hands. If something went wrong, he was ready to become a human shield.
Click.
The lock is unlocked.
"Relax, please relax, Ms. Friedman, I can't do anything, look at my hands." Romon's suit, which was facing away from Kitahara Sosuke, had already been damaged for most of the time, and he was raising his hands in the air.
Back up and walk into the VIP room.
What followed Luo Meng into Kitahara Sosuke's eyes was a dark gun barrel and a submachine gun held in the hands of a pair of fair-skinned and slender women.
"Who's in there?" A clear and delicate girl's voice came from outside the door.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, they are all my friends, they are from Japan, they are innocent people! Please don't hurt them!" Luo Meng yelled quickly, and then the gun barrel was shoved into his mouth.
"Shut up! It's so noisy!"
Kitahara Sosuke finally saw the girl who was speaking. She was a white girl wearing a cropped camouflage uniform. She had long blond hair and an Asian baby face that looked different from Europeans. She had a hot figure and a bulging front and back.
His perfect body was tightly wrapped in camouflage clothes, and his big dark blue eyes blinked, and he immediately looked at Kitahara Sosuke.
"Japanese?"
She held a submachine gun in her hand, and was followed by a group of tall men in camouflage uniforms. She spoke not very fluent English. Behind her, the huge trading room was in a mess, but no one was injured or injured.
Death.
"Uh huh..." Luo Meng, whose mouth was blocked, could only make this sound to remind Kitahara Sosuke not to offend this girl.
"Why can you do Japanese business, but you can't do our Russian business?" The girl pouted and pushed the gun in her hand hard.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Luo Meng was so frightened that he almost peed. If the girl's hand shook and the submachine gun went off, his head would instantly turn into a sieve!
Judging from his appearance, it was not the first time he had seen this girl.
Girl and Gun, Russian?
Kitahara Sosuke looked at her thoughtfully, but he did not dare to make any movement with his hands. He still kept his hands raised in the air, trying not to offend the other person.