International oil prices have collapsed again, reaching the lowest price in 18 years. It can be said that the price has been hit to the floor.
In the eyes of many domestic investors, this is simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a fortune. After this sharp decline, a large number of people flocked to the Yuanyoubao platform to buy crude oil at the lowest price.
The long positions have shown a one-sided surge. The evenly matched long and short situation has long broken the original balance, and the tilt angle of the balance is getting wider and wider.
If customers want to play Yuanyoubao, they first need to pay 100% margin, which is equivalent to removing the investment leverage of futures and theoretically reducing investment risks.
However, the gameplay of Yuanyoubao is essentially the same as that of crude oil futures, and the oil price is also based on the WTI crude oil futures of the North American CME Group.
In addition, the minimum trading unit of Yuanyoubao has been reduced from 1,000 barrels to 1 barrel, and the minimum incremental unit is 0.1 barrel. This lowers the investment threshold and allows more people to participate.
Yuanyoubao is an investment platform. Investors who participate in it can bet on the rise and fall of oil prices based on their own judgment. If they are bullish, they will be long, and if they are bearish, they will be short.
Under ideal circumstances, the above long and short position sizes are generally balanced in the area. In this case, the money earned by the long side is the money lost by the short side. The risks of the two are exactly hedged, and the platform side does not need to hold any positions and makes profit.
are the handling fees and exchange differences of client investors.
But the actual situation now is that the continuous explosion of international oil prices has attracted a large number of investors to enter the market to buy lows and open longs. There is also a steady stream of customers entering the market to buy lows. The overall balance of long and short positions has been broken.
For example, if the long side bought a total of 1,000 barrels of crude oil, but the short side only sold 200 barrels of crude oil, then the platform would have an additional long position of 800 barrels.
How to address this risk exposure?
The operation of Yuanyoubao is to go long 800 barrels of crude oil on the North American CME Group. If it goes up later, the platform’s profit on the CME Group will be exactly equal to the gravity of the 800 barrels of long positions on Yuanyoubao. Otherwise, if it goes down, then in
CME Group's loss is exactly equal to the loss of the 800 barrel long position.
In short, the extra positions on the platform are moved intact to the futures exchange of CME Group in North America. Therefore, it can be said that Yuanyoubao is a paper crude oil, or even a virtual disk.
As for this operation to hedge the extra risk exposure, as more and more investors are currently entering Yuanyoubao to hunt for the bottom, the scale of the long positions established by the platform on the CME Group is getting larger and larger, which sets the stage for what will happen later.
Losing blood and being hunted set the stage.
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The time has come to April 1st.
The first quarter of the new year has come to an end. For America, the first quarter was terrible and she was simply exhausted.
What the outside world doesn't know at the moment is that people on both sides of Yingjiang and Rabbit are having a big quarrel in private because of Tiansheng Capital's crazy harvesting in the North American capital market.
The other side yelled angrily to hand over the money, but the other side just shouted back.
It's okay to quarrel, but it's not okay to ask for money.
The first time we talked in private, we broke up unhappy.
This matter has not been exposed yet. The United States does not want to expose it because it would be too embarrassing, and the domestic side is not high-profile because it is actively making comprehensive preparations.
The outside world doesn't know, but Lu Ming knows, because he has established contact with his superiors, and a backup file will be sent to his desk with the latest situation and news progress.
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Around 10 a.m., Lu Ming was paying attention to the latest news.
The news headline read: North American Central Command and its Pacific Command had a big fight over the aircraft carrier!
Last night at around 18:00 pm Eastern Time, a spokesman for the Third Fleet of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet officially confirmed that two sailors on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Nimitz" belonging to the Pacific Fleet have been diagnosed and have started to be quarantined on the ship.
, and the aircraft carrier is also preparing to dock for isolation.
With the diagnosis of the USS Nimitz, four of the five aircraft carriers in the US Navy's Pacific Fleet have been diagnosed as of today. The other three are the USS Robertson and the USS Carl Vinson.
The USS Linhe and the USS Ligae, only the USS Linxiu, which has just returned to San Diego, has not yet been diagnosed.
Among these five aircraft carriers.
The aircraft carrier "Urato" is currently berthed in the small port of Tsunesuka. Due to confirmed cases on the ship, it is currently under quarantine;
The "Whistleblower" incident occurred yesterday on the aircraft carrier "Law Seobok". 230 people on the ship were diagnosed and are being quarantined at the Gwangdo Naval Base;
The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier is preparing for deployment at Bretton Woods Naval Base in Washington State. As a result, sailors on the ship have also been diagnosed with the disease. The entire ship is currently under quarantine. It is likely that it will not be able to deploy at sea until the situation is under limited control.
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The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is undergoing maintenance at Bretton Woods Naval Shipyard and is temporarily unable to be deployed.
The only aircraft carrier without confirmed cases, the USS Lin Zhi, cannot be deployed because it just returned to the port after more than 290 days of sea voyage. The aircraft carrier is currently berthed at the San Diego Naval Base on the west coast, ending the overdue deployment of the aircraft carrier.
The crew members and pilots are about to start taking leave. If there is no war in the short term, the aircraft carrier will continue to dock in port for rest and recuperation, which will not be short.
April has just entered, and all five aircraft carriers of America's Pacific Fleet are idle, leaving no aircraft carriers available. Starting today, for the first time in the entire Western Pacific region, there will be a window period without old American naval aircraft carriers on duty.
That’s why today’s news headlines read that the old US Pacific Command and its Central Command were having a big quarrel over an aircraft carrier.
The five aircraft carriers in the hands of the Pacific Fleet are all lying down. If there is any trouble in the Western Pacific region at the moment, America's navy can only stare at each other.
America has the largest aircraft carrier fleet in the world. There are currently 11 aircraft carriers in active service, which is more than the total number of aircraft carriers in the navies of other countries in the world combined.
However, after all five aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet were put down, the other three were being replenished or maintained. Currently, there are only three aircraft carriers left in the US Navy at sea. They are the "Tulumen" aircraft carrier that is returning to its home port.
The USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier is deployed in the northern Gulf of Arabia, and the USS Ford aircraft carrier is undergoing sea testing on the east coast of North America.
The USS Pote, which is in the sea trial stage, certainly cannot be pulled out to fight, so there are actually only two ships left that can really fight, and that is the USS Tulumen and the USS Eisenhower.
aircraft carrier.
These two aircraft carriers belong to the Central Command of the United States, and the Pacific Command of the United States wants to seize these two aircraft carriers.
The Pacific Command requires that the only two capable aircraft carriers currently be transferred to the Western Pacific region, otherwise the rabbit will have no choice but to stare blankly if it takes the opportunity to steal.
The Central Command did not agree. It is true that the Western Pacific region cannot be without aircraft carriers, but the Middle East region cannot be without aircraft carriers. Otherwise, if the furry bear takes the opportunity to steal the butt, it will just stare. Besides, these two aircraft carriers are not originally affiliated with the Pacific Command.
Why should I lend it to you?
People from both sides started to quarrel in Wujiao Building.
Finally, Lu Ming felt a sense of relief after reading this news, and said to himself: "Haha, I must be having a big headache right now. I am definitely exhausted and having all kinds of quarrels."
Indeed, America and the United States are currently quarreling in various ways, both internally and externally.
Wall Street is quarreling with each other, complaining that each other secretly gave Tiansheng Capital so much money, and the Pentagon is also quarreling.
We were also quarreling with the outside world. First we had a quarrel with a big business owner. The big business owner was so angry that he backhandedly increased production. The bear followed suit and oil prices plummeted.
I had another secret quarrel with Rabbit, but I didn't get the money, so the quarrel was in vain.
There are also a large number of shale oil companies over there that are on the verge of running out of gas. Yingjiang is absolutely in a mess right now, with all kinds of troubles and obstructions, and everything big and small.
