Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

the next morning.

Lin Baicheng came down from upstairs. In addition to the housekeeper Dorchi and the servants, Qin Lan also got up, and Isabella also came over.

Lin Baicheng greeted Qin Lan: "Good morning, Qin Lan, how did you sleep last night? Are you still used to it?"

Qin Lan replied: "Good morning, Mr. Lin, I slept very well last night. There is nothing I'm not used to."

"Used to it."

Lin Baicheng nodded and walked towards the restaurant.

Others followed.

Isabella said: "Mr. Lin, I have brought Cliff Cooper and Brian Owen over, and now they are waiting outside." The Cliff Cooper and Brian Owen she spoke of, He was the bodyguard candidate he found for Lin Baicheng.

Lin Baicheng said: "Have they had breakfast? If not, ask them to come in and eat together, as long as they are used to eating gruel."

Isabella responded: "They have already eaten."

Lin Baicheng said: "Then let them come in and wait. After I have breakfast and read the investment information on gold futures, I will go see them."

Isabella responded and asked a servant to take Cliff Cooper and Brian Owen to the living room to wait.

Lin Baicheng asked Qin Lan to eat together, and he read the information while eating.

For Goldman Sachs' gold futures investment, Lin Baicheng's principal has now become 170 million U.S. dollars. He raised 1 billion U.S. dollars from Goldman Sachs. The financing period was one year and the interest was 9.2%. Then according to his instructions, when the gold price fell below 170 I started buying when the gold price dropped to US$165/ounce, and the more it fell, the more I bought. The operation was completed when the gold price dropped to close to US$165/ounce, and the average buying price was US$167.7/ounce.

Now, the real-time price of gold is 162.4 US dollars per ounce, a small loss of about three points, but Lin Baicheng doesn't take it to heart.

In terms of losses, Lin Baicheng lost more when he was long gold futures with a principal of US$100 million each in Standard Chartered Bank and Mitsubishi Bank. Mitsubishi Bank's investment, which has a higher cost price, has a cost price of US$189 per ounce. The current price is US$162.4 per ounce, and the loss has exceeded 14%. Once the price of gold falls below US$152 per ounce, and then drops by about US$10, it will be close to liquidation.

Fortunately, Lin Baicheng will not watch the investments in these two places explode. He is still leaving them alone for now, but when the price of gold falls below US$160 per ounce, he will prepare funds to cover his positions.

Bailong Commercial Association's short selling also sold when the gold price was close to 165 US dollars / ounce. The average selling price was 165.3 US dollars / ounce. The original short selling cost price here was 195.1 US dollars / ounce, but because the operating funds were only 1 billion, so after deducting handling fees, we only made $15 million.

However, one time I made 3.5 million U.S. dollars by going long, and I made 15 million U.S. dollars this time by going short. When the principal was only 10 million U.S. dollars, nearly 2 times the profit was not too small.

The profit here is from idling to long, plus the initial principal of 10 million U.S. dollars. The current principal is 28.5 million U.S. dollars, so Lin Baicheng operated 200 million U.S. dollars to go long. When he informed Iwasaki Mineryu, Iwasaki Mine Long didn't object. By that time, the cooperation between Iwasaki Mineryu and Lin Baicheng in Xiangjiang had already confirmed that they would make a lot of money, and Iwasaki Mineryu certainly would not object.

Bailong Commercial Co., Ltd. is long here, with a principal of US$28.5 million, operating capital of US$200 million, and the purchase cost price is US$164.3 per ounce.

Finally, it is Hutchison Whampoa. After closing the short-selling futures order, the operation was not carried out immediately. The main reason was to avoid affecting the rise of Hutchison Whampoa's stock price. It did not start until Hutchison Whampoa's stock price exceeded 20 Hong Kong dollars. Slowly buying gold, the price of gold had already fallen below $165 per ounce.

On Hutchison Whampoa's side, the principal amount became US$275 million. The original financing was US$750 million. Lin Baicheng asked HSBC to raise another US$750 million, making up US$1.5 billion, which is equivalent to using a little more than 5 times leverage.

The buying cost here is even lower, only $163.6 per ounce.

Now all gold futures are long and all purchases have been completed. Although the price of gold is still searching for a bottom and is likely to fall below 160 US dollars per ounce, Lin Baicheng believes that the price of gold will rebound in the second half of the year and looks forward to the sharp rise in gold prices. Let his wealth skyrocket.

Lin Baicheng did not bring the more than one billion Hong Kong dollars he earned in Hong Kong to buy gold futures this time, because he planned to use the money to establish a home appliance company. In addition, if gold prices fall again, these funds can also be used as margins for Standard Chartered and Mitsubishi.

After breakfast, Lin Baicheng went to meet with Cliff Cooper and Brian Irving.

Clive Cooper and Brian Irving are both about the same age, in their thirties, but they did not know each other before.

Among them, Cliff Cooper was from the Navy SEALs. He had to retire due to injuries that made his reactions less sensitive than before. However, although he is not as powerful as before, he is more than enough to be Lin Baicheng's bodyguard. After all, Lin Baicheng seeks bodyguards to prevent kidnappings and assassinations, not to let bodyguards fight the army.

Brian Owen is a soldier who retired from the Vietnam War. He was lucky. The war ended just two years after he joined the army. Therefore, although he is not experienced in hundreds of battles, he has also experienced the baptism of war. He is not comparable to ordinary police officers. .

Both Cliff Cooper and Brian Owen belong to ordinary families, otherwise they would have gone to be leaders in other departments after leaving the army. Their family conditions are average, and they have to find another job to earn money to support their families after retiring from the army. People like them can find limited types of serious jobs, and their incomes are not very high.

Being a personal bodyguard for wealthy people is a job that is suitable for them and pays quite well.

Lin Baicheng actually had nothing to be picky about these two people. After all, when he was looking for a personal bodyguard, the screening process had already filtered out those who did not meet the requirements, and those who could come over met his requirements.

The reason why Lin Baicheng still wanted to interview was mainly to see the person, to see if he could catch his eye, and to make sure that the bodyguard was really free of racial discrimination. He would not entrust his life safety to a discriminatory person. That would be a joke with his life.

Whether a person is racist or not, although it can be temporarily concealed through deception, it will always be obvious after a long time.

In the contract between Lin Baicheng and the bodyguard, there was a stipulation that if the other party concealed the fact of his racial discrimination, he would be subject to huge compensation claims, which would definitely bankrupt the deceiver.

Cliff Cooper and Brian Irving were both tall and tall, standing straight, with sharp eyes and fierce momentum. It was obvious at first glance that they had been specially trained. After Lin Baicheng communicated with them for a while, he admitted them and let them Become his bodyguard.