Reinventing the Millennium

Night fell over New York City, and the excitement of Nasdaq came to an end.

Yike's stock price plummeted, and its market value evaporated by billions of dollars. The media rushed to report on it, and institutions celebrated.

But under the night, irrational emotions are surging, being provoked, and being organized.

Some people from organizations noticed this situation and tried to analyze the dilemma faced by Yi Ke on Twitter. However, they soon found that their comment sections were occupied by opposition and even hatred.

The subprime debt crisis of 2007 and the financial crisis of 2008 had far-reaching impacts, and even later the Occupy Wall Street movement emerged.

It was May 2009, and the dissatisfaction and anger under the crisis were still full. The institutions that had been widely advertised in April had just been defeated. The Internet and mobile Internet had built a platform for communication and voice, and the new free trading app provided convenient channels. All factors are intertwined, brewing and expanding in the night.

Boom, boom, boom.

The CEO office of Hang Lung 23 was knocked.

The dual time zone warrior woke up from his trance, stood up from his desk, opened the office door, turned around and moved his body.

Wang Fengyi flashed into the CEO's office, skillfully took out the tea leaves, and made tea for himself and Mr. Fang.

It’s 4 a.m. in New York and 4 p.m. in Shanghai.

Fang Zhuo stood by the window and looked at the busy traffic downstairs. He woke up. When he turned around, he saw Wang Fengyi walking to his table and turning to read the book on the table.

"Brother Wang, what are you doing here?" he asked.

Wang Fengyi took the book and said mysteriously to the other manager: "Isn't it normal for shareholders to come over when the stock price drops? Mr. Fang, don't worry, I will use the heaven and earth to calculate our stocks, and they will definitely rise back."

Fang Zhuo wondered: "Can you still calculate this?"

Wang Fengyi shook his head and said: "I don't know how. I calculated it using a computer. The result of online fortune telling is that the stock price will definitely rebound!"

Fang Zhuo said angrily: "I have to attack people like you."

"Just tell me whether you can play or not!" Wang Fengyi's arrogance was quite arrogant.

Fang Zhuo stopped talking. Compliance, compliance, everything must be in compliance.

Wang Fengyi chuckled. He was also paying attention to Yike's situation. Out of the other party's total confidence, he firmly believed that the stock price could not plummet like this, and firmly believed that President Fang could not be unprepared.

Sure enough, after breakfast, I saw that the wind seemed to be blowing, and YIKE was rising after the market opened.

He flipped through the book in his hand and said with some surprise: "Mr. Fang, why are you reading "Small Town Hustle"? The author, um, Wu Yi, who is he? It was a new book published the year before last."

"Then what do you think I should watch?" Fang Zhuo rubbed his face and made himself another cup of coffee. The high-intensity patrol was really tiring.

Wang Fengyi thought for a while and said, "I think you still have time to read at this time, or you should write a book called "New York Hustle"."

Thinking that this was the book Mr. Fang was reading, he briefly read a few pages and read, "'The work of a township begins with eating and drinking.' Well, this is similar to my work."

"'If there are not many customers coming to eat in the canteen of a township government at noon, then there will be no hope for the economy of this place.' This is interesting. Okay, I will take this book back and read it."

Fang Zhuo laughed and said: "Brother Wang, you are working harder and harder. If you can't come out and come to the United States, come and do it with me."

Wang Fengyi waved the book in his hand and said warily: "You don't dare to do what you are doing in the United States, and you still let me get involved? I think if your stock price rebounds sharply this time, do you have to be careful in the country in the future?"

Fang Zhuo took a sip of black coffee and shook his head slightly: "It's not to that extent. We have enough interests and time to repair the relationship. There is indeed a shortage of people in the United States. Brother Wang, think about it, the treatment and status are absolutely Laman.”

Wang Fengyi was stunned, pretending to think about it, and suddenly said: "When I was eating in the morning, I saw that Yike's stock price had risen to 125 US dollars, and Yike's after-hours increase was 6.5%. Can retail investors alone make the institution suffer this time?"

Although it is not just about retail investors, Fang Zhuo still thought seriously: "Who can guarantee it? I can only say that we must first do the work in a down-to-earth manner among the masses, and then see what happens."

Wang Fengyi endured it and did not ask the question.

The clues can be seen from last month. Yike's stock soared on Nasdaq for nearly three days. Someone must have overcome the resistance. He heard sporadic this month that Fang always talked with the United States. Summers, the former financial housekeeper, had an affair.

Whoever wants to do mass work is someone like Summers.

Wang Fengyi maintained restraint and sat in the CEO office of Hang Lung 23 to look at the real-time stock price of YIKE.

Nasdaq's after-market trading hours are from 4 pm to 8 pm, and pre-market trading is from 4 am to 9:30 am. Now is the time for Yike to start pre-market trading again.

"It's gone up, it's gone up, it's still going up! The momentum continues, Mr. Fang!"

Wang Fengyi was happy to see that pre-market trading had taken over the trend of after-market trading and was still rising.

Media reports that Yike's plunge is still widely spread, but according to this trend, Yike may be able to recover a lot of lost ground before the market opens!

Wang Fengyi thought about it carefully and asked Mr. Fang with some surprise: "It won't rise back to 140 US dollars when the market opens, right?"

Fang Zhuo still said the same thing: "Let's see what happens."

What's happening at Yike?

This problem also hit the short-selling institutions this time, causing many people to wake up from their sweet dreams in the early morning.

I was still celebrating just that night, still looking forward to YIKE's continued plunge, and still laughing at YIKE's post-market resistance. Why is it that at 4 o'clock in the morning, its pre-market trading is more active?

Several latest news that just appeared are in front of you.

At 10:30 in the night, AT\u0026T executives revealed that they would reach a cooperation agreement with Yike within the month and will underwrite Mars 3 and Selfy, as well as next year’s Mars 4 and Selfy 2.

At 11 o'clock in the night, Yike's official website announced a new publicity plan "Light Up America". It plans to place advertisements for new phones in the most central locations of every city in the United States to make all consumers aware that the best Android phones are on sale.

At 11:30 in the night, the new mobile stock trading platform Freetrade announced on the software that it had received US$10 million in angel round investment and would be dedicated to publicity and service improvement.

At 0 o'clock in the morning, a source pointed out that Yike is suspected of having reconciled with LG, and the new generation of smartphones will be rolled out in Korean channels.

Other scattered news, there is a round of appeals on Twitter, the Go die website is suspected of having too many lags, and a bankrupt fund manager who started his second business selling T-shirts is going to appear on a talk show...

This is obviously a wave of good news that Yike continues to release, and the purpose is also very clear to support the stock price.

But, can these activate Yike’s pre-market trading?

Many institutional managers are thinking hazily, considering using funds to smash the market after the market opens to induce retail investors to sell stocks, and cooperate with further media publicity to continue to suppress Yike's stock price.

But this process will probably also usher in Yike's capital repurchase, which will require fluctuations and struggles.

After the institutional managers woke up, they discussed the stock situation and suppression plans familiarly. Short selling often encountered resistance from companies. However, this time the bad news was not from them, but from the authoritative ITC. Yike was destined to resist stubbornly.

In the early hours of the morning, organizations with a sense of celebration got busy again.

At the same time, Paulson, the "King of Short Sellers" who was staying in a Manhattan hotel, was suddenly attracted by an advertisement that lit up outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Greed is a sin!"

“The most powerful Android phone on the planet!”

“Mars mysterious man’s co-branded model is coming!”

The high-floor hotel where Paulson stayed had a great view, and he always liked the view overlooking the Manhattan neighborhood.

However, this time, he saw too much scenery.

Times Square is the center of New York. The screens here are particularly gorgeous and have always been the focus of advertising.

The Reuters Building alone has 11 large LED electronic screens all over the building, and the Nasdaq Exchange building also has huge advertising screens. Now, the screens in Paulson's sight are all filled with advertisements from Yike. occupy.

At this moment, something suddenly occurred to his mind. The pre-sale numbers launched by Yike last month were far less than expected. They were neither in line with its own past pre-sale sales curve nor comparable to the performance of similar competitor Samsung.

Of course the numbers are real, and what Paulson obtained is guaranteed to be internal data from T-Mobile, Amazon and other small and medium-sized telecom operators, but...it seems that there are not many advertisements from Yike's new phones both online and offline. Deliver.

Not none, but very few.

Where did your most impressive piece of publicity come from?

It seems to be from the live broadcast of YouTube's new phone launch conference after the delivery of Yike's stock options. It was the booking link that Fang Zhuo personally shouted online.

Everyone was attracted by Fang Zhuo's press conference, and they were all concerned about his attitude towards short squeezes. No one cared about Yike Company, whether its normal business promotion was in place.

It should be publicized. Isn’t this the commercial marketing that an ordinary company should have?

Unless, Yike is not an ordinary mobile phone company.

Paulson's throat slid up and down, and more worries filled his heart.

This is just his personal speculation and has not been confirmed. If this is true, Yike's pre-sale figure that is obviously lower than expected... is a real figure, but it cannot reflect the real situation!

Perhaps, everything is too much of a conspiracy theory, and Yike Company was just forced by pressure to advance the press conference and pre-sales without conducting timely publicity and follow-up.

Paulson felt that he thought Fang Zhuo was too bad.

Ding.

There was a slight sound from behind.

Paulson closed the curtains, turned around, and looked at Savannah, a subordinate of the fund.

Savannah was startled by the boss's ugly and gloomy expression. She pointed to her mobile phone and said softly: "Mars mobile phone just pushed a message, which is to promote Freetrade."

"Freetrade?" Paulson was stunned.

Savannah nodded and said: "Yes, Yike Company's mobile phones have almost never had this kind of push notification before."

The push notifications from Yike Mobile are almost all Android system updates and patches. It is unprecedented to push and promote an irrelevant app software like this.

Paulson thought about the software he had personally used, and his face became darker: "Yike's eating looks are so ugly!"

This, doesn’t this go against your company’s principles?

Savannah was silent, but she could understand that he was almost dead, so there was nothing ugly about it.

Paulson reopened the trading software on his mobile phone and saw that the atmosphere of the communication above became more enthusiastic and even fanatical.

"It's gone up! It's gone up! It's still going up! Hahaha!"

"It's really going up! Our buy is valid! Don't sell, don't sell! Let it go back up before the market opens!"

"Punishment institution!!"

"Gooooo dieeeee!"

"I bought 10 shares at 118, now 126, hehehehe, why did I remember the market last month? Brothers, do you think we can unite and make more money?"

Paulson suddenly put down his cell phone. If irrational emotions can really achieve greater benefits, how far will this group of people snowball?

He pointed at Savannah, opened his mouth and ordered: "You, you..."

Savannah was prepared, but did not receive the complete order from her boss.

Paulson lowered his hand, his expression uncertain.

what is this? Spurring public opinion? Fang Zhuo is far away in the east, how can he contain him?

How could this really drive up Yike's stock price?

He intuitively feels that a huge crisis is approaching, and rationally believes that the worst situation will not occur. At most, YIKE can smooth out Monday's decline, and at most it can rise a little higher. When the emotions dissipate, it will still be affected by negative factors. !

How can retail investors succeed?

The inherent experience in Paulson's mind is at work, and there seems to be a gathering of mobile apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Freetrade that he has never seen before.

"Savanna, please contact Goldman Sachs and tell them about this situation and the situation in the online platform." Paulson still issued an order.

Savannah waited a few seconds before picking up her phone and walking aside.

Paulson took a few breaths, picked up his phone and put it down uneasily, and finally opened Twitter. As expected, he saw the kings of retail investors cheering for every increase in Yike's stock price.

Also, the Go die website has also updated its slogan.

——Light up America, ignite institutions!

Joseph combined Yike's advertising plan with the slogan of unity.

"The screens that Yike lights up in every city shine on our determination to punish institutions and ignite institutions!"

"Come on, everyone is the king of retail investors!"

Paulson gritted his teeth. He originally had no special feelings for this Joseph, but now he felt disgusted by every word he said!

What kind of king of retail investors are all ridiculous temporary emotions that will eventually fail!

At dawn, YIKE's advertisements are being placed intensively or will soon be placed in central locations in various cities. The mood on the Internet and mobile Internet has also become more enthusiastic as YIKE's stock price rises.

Paulson never fell asleep again.

Starting from 4 o'clock in the morning, he watched YIKE's stock price rise slowly but steadily, 126.97, 126.98, 126.99, 127.00...

The morning light illuminates the room through the gaps in the curtains, symbolizing the arrival of another trading day.

With bloodshot eyes, Paulson overcame his fear of numbers that had arisen at some point and looked at YIKE's stock price again.

Half past nine, $138.65!

It rose from 117.36 to 125, and then from 125 to 138.65!

Yike rose 6.5% after the market opened and soared 10.9% before the market opened!

YIKE’s stock price has soared again!

Paulson felt chills all over his body, and a voice seemed to be echoing in his ears non-stop, everyone is the king of retail investors, everyone is the king of retail investors!