Chapter 167 No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant and Old William
Sun Dahai has been paying close attention to the U.S. market that has short-sold stock index futures. The trading team collects various relevant information from Xiangjiang every day, summarizes it and faxes it over.
Battelle and Qiao Wanting took turns going to the Telegraph Building to collect faxes in the past few days. After a few days, Qiao Wanting actually learned to ride a bicycle.
In the end, Sun Dahai did not easily touch the S&P 500 index futures contract he sold short. Anyway, the current situation is very good, and the current price is in the profit zone, far away from the stop loss line he set.
So Sun Dahai decided to keep the short-selling contract in his hands for now, and then make plans based on future development.
As the rebound in the Xiangjiang stock market ended, Sun Dahai chose to short-sell several stocks to drive the market and start a new round of decline.
However, Qiao Wanting does not have to stay in the capital to continue waiting. She has stayed in the capital for more than ten days, and returned to Xiangjiang after the National Day to join the trading team.
This round of decline looks much more normal. The decline every day is not very big, and it will even rise every few days. In this way, it has been falling all the way into November.
As the negotiations between the two countries progressed, the daily fluctuations of the Hong Kong stock market began to expand, and the trading volume gradually increased. The U.S. market also showed signs of stabilizing, and the daily trading volume also increased slightly.
Sun Dahai felt that the time had almost come, so he called Qiao Wanting who returned to Xiangjiang and ordered to buy back the short-sold stocks in the Xiangjiang stock market, and at the same time close the short order of the S&P 500 Index futures in his hand, ending this stage of the transaction.
Three trading days later, it was the weekend. Sun Dahai told Qiao Wanting on the phone at home that the trading team was on holiday for a week, and told financial manager Zhou Haibing to transfer 200,000 Hong Kong dollars to Qiao Wanting as a bonus for the trading team at this stage. The specific distribution
The plan is in charge of the team leader Qiao Wanting.
The cheers coming from the phone made Sun Dahai's head spin. However, Sun Dahai ignored the excited trading team. He put down the phone, looked at the fax that Battelle had just retrieved from the Telegraph Building, and laughed.
These faxes are summarized transaction records. There is one copy each for Xiangjiang and America. To simply understand, the above content is their income statement at this stage.
The United States is relatively simple, because the amount of funds is small, only one million US dollars, including 80% of the position with 30 times leverage, it is only 24 million contracts, and the simple account operation is completed.
The final net income was US$2.3 million, and the total capital in the account reached US$3.3 million.
For Xiangjiang, the average profit from the second transaction was 12.4%. After deducting various fees, Xiangjiang made a total profit of HK$3.2 million from the two transactions. Including the principal, the total amount in the account was HK$4.2 million.
Sun Dahai asked Zhou Haibing to transfer the bonus of 200,000 yuan to Qiao Wanting. He also exchanged another 600,000 US dollars for the stock index futures account in the United States.
Now the Hong Kong dollar has depreciated slightly, and the exchange rate of one US dollar to Hong Kong dollars has dropped from 5.8 to 5.95. The US$600,000 has been spent on almost three million Hong Kong dollars.
There was still more than one million Hong Kong dollars left in the account, so Sun Dahai didn't want any change, so he transferred an integer of one million Hong Kong dollars to the account of No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant.
No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant was registered by Sun Dahai after he asked Qiao Hongwei before he left Hong Kong. This was the name of his shop in Building 9, Lan Kwai Fong. The name is simple and easy to remember, but in fact he was just too lazy to choose a name carefully.
The manager of No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant is already in place. He is an acquaintance of Sun Dahai, and he is someone he had never expected before.
William White, Cao Yong’s boss, director of the Xiangjiang branch of Hanyu International Law Firm, is also a big fan of Chinese cuisine.
Old William is sixty-two years old this year. He is a partner, that is, a shareholder, of Hanyu International, so he does not value the position of director of the Xiangjiang branch.
He has long wanted to retire and enjoy delicious food, but he has never made up his mind.
Since the emergence of Cao Ji's Private Kitchen Restaurant, he has become even more eager to taste Chinese cuisine. As a result, he soon became a frequent visitor to Cao Ji's Private Kitchen Restaurant, and became friends with Chef Cao and Sun Dahai, and attended the restaurant several times.
A gathering of friends on the restaurant's holiday.
When Sun Dahai bought the shop at No. 9 Lan Kwai Fong (without paying for it) and planned to open a hot pot restaurant, Sun Dahai began to look for friends to introduce him, hoping to find a suitable person to be the manager of the hot pot restaurant.
William Sr. has been working as a lawyer all his life and has already become famous and wealthy. He has not retired yet, just because he is used to working and cannot take time off.
Even though he and Sun Dahai were older and younger, with an age difference of fifty years, they could really chat when they were together, from all over the world.
Old William also admired Sun Dahai very much, not for his ability to make money, which Sun Dahai did not show off easily, but for Sun Dahai's cooking skills.
William Sr. is delicious, but his wife is a vegetarian and cannot eat with him. His son is a doctor, and he pays attention to nutrition and balance, and does not have much appetite for food.
Every time Old William ate with Sun Dahai, he always felt that the meal was very satisfying.
Now that he knew that Sun Dahai was going to open a restaurant, old William felt his index finger move and he was a little tempted.
As the work progress of Lan Kwai Fong Development Management Company accelerated, the Huo family began to work hard behind the scenes, and began to systematically hype Lan Kwai Fong through familiar media. Lan Kwai Fong has gradually become a hot spot in the region.
Under this circumstance, many people began to pay attention to this place. A new economic hotspot that is about to form is still very attractive. Countless companies or individuals are preparing to cross the sea and show their magical powers to get a piece of the pie here.
This is illustrated by the fact that Cao Yong's film slow-roll bar was able to attract professionals like Williams to serve as store manager before it even started construction.
When Sun Dahai left Xiangjiang, the civil engineering works in Lan Kwai Fong had not yet started, and the people who knew about it were basically the relevant industry insiders.
In September, the overall renovation of Lan Kwai Fong officially began, and various media outlets worked together to hype it up. The concept of a bar and restaurant street in Lan Kwai Fong soon became popular.
This was the foreshadowing for the development company to start renting out shops, but old William couldn't sit still.
He chatted with Chef Cao several times, and after greeting his family, he decided to retire, leave the law firm, and work as the manager of Sun Dahai's No. 9 hotpot restaurant.
Old William wanted to get Sun Dahai's phone number. When he called him, Sun Dahai was worrying about choosing a store manager, and he got such good news.
In the future, the operating characteristics and target customer groups of Lan Kwai Fong's bar and restaurant street will determine that the store manager's personal connections and ability to deal with people will be much more important than the experience of simply running the catering industry.
In other words, the store manager does not need to be familiar with bar catering, but he must be good at handling the relationship with tourists from various countries who have financial strength and pursue fashion trends.
Such requirements are by no means something that an ordinary restaurant or restaurant manager can meet. This is why Sun Dahai wants to recruit a restaurant manager in Xiangjiang, but there has been no satisfactory candidate.
