Different God of Cooking [Rebirth]

Why is the price of buying soybeans from the Lighthouse country 560 Lighthouse coins per bushel, but the domestic delivery price of soybeans remains at 600 Lighthouse coins.

The reason is simple - there is a price but no market, and now most domestic manufacturers have no way to buy cheap soybeans from the lighthouse country.

As soon as the Ministry of Commerce and the Customs Bureau lowered the tariffs, some companies have already gone to the lighthouse country to negotiate with the three major grain merchants, hoping to buy enough cheap soybeans.

However, the three major grain merchants responded in unison: the soybeans in stock last year have all been sold out. If you want to buy soybeans, you can only wait for the first season of soybeans in Lighthouse Country to mature in August and September.

This is good news for Huaxia soybean futures. In the case of insufficient supply, the price of Huaxia soybeans will not fall again, and even the country will continue to promote domestic soybean planting. There are domestic soybeans that can be used.

The Beacon Country, which finally allowed Huaxia to import soybeans from itself, certainly does not want to see this happen.

Therefore, the three major grain merchants tried every means to appease China's demand enterprises:

Our lighthouse country is doing spring plowing. If you need to import soybeans, you might as well tell me the quantity now, and then we can plan the planting area.

Our lighthouse country is a modern plantation, which can accurately evaluate the yield.At that time, soybeans will be given priority to everyone.And everyone knows very well that the price of soybeans in our lighthouse country is definitely much cheaper than the soybeans in Huaxia, and it will definitely bring you a satisfactory profit margin.

These small and medium-sized enterprises in Huaxia did not think too much, so they roughly reported the amount of soybeans they needed.But when they proposed to sign the order contract, the three major grain merchants began to shirk in various ways:

The tariffs and trade policies of the two countries are unstable; soybean planting planning takes a certain amount of time; recent international soybean futures have also changed a lot and so on.

Even if a contract is signed, it is still a contract with an undetermined price, or a futures contract is directly adopted, and the price on the delivery date shall prevail.

In addition to these small and medium-sized enterprises, the large enterprises that participated in the inspection group and tasted the sweetness through soybean imports also contacted the three major grain merchants again.It is hoped that soybeans can still be imported from the lighthouse countries in 2002, and the quantity needed will be larger than last time.

For these large enterprises, the three major grain merchants have a very kind attitude on the surface and made various verbal promises, but when it comes to signing the contract, they still shirk all kinds of excuses.

This time, the price of soybeans imported from the lighthouse country is close to the dumping price. Huaxia companies can also foresee that the price of soybeans will definitely increase this year, but everyone’s thinking is that no matter how much the price increases, it will be cheaper than domestic soybean prices. Did not pay special attention to this matter.

After all, import and export prices are generally consistent with international soybean futures prices. Looking at the relatively stable international soybean futures prices in recent years, companies are not particularly worried.

Zhao An has been paying close attention to the contacts between Huaxia Enterprises and the three major grain merchants, and even Shi An has been sending employees to contact them.Therefore, Zhao An is very clear about the attitudes and strategies of the three major grain merchants.

Everyone knows that the three major grain merchants will increase prices, but no one knows how cruel the three major grain merchants or the lighthouse country are like Zhao An.

Many Huaxia enterprises do not know enough about the World Trade Organization as a whole. This is not a benevolent public welfare organization.The capital market is a place that eats people without telling their bones.It has nothing to do with the country or the nation. The essence is the greed of human beings alienated by capital.

Facing the trap that was approaching every step of the way, Zhao An was helpless.Could it be that Zhao An is going to say to the person in charge of each enterprise:

Don't trust the lighthouse countries, don't buy soybeans from the lighthouse countries, they will maliciously raise the price.

Under the circumstances that the future cannot be predicted, no one would choose to believe Zhao An's "alarmist talk".They may even think that Zhao An is trying to sow discord, so that everyone will not trade with the three major grain merchants in the Lighthouse Country, so that Food Security can monopolize the source of cheap soybeans.

There are so many intrigues and tricks in this market that any seasoned and mature entrepreneur will not easily believe what his peers say. They only believe in real money.

So Zhao An could only choose to remain silent, and then try to fight back from the three major grain merchants.

Zhao An will not choose to negotiate friendly with the other party. Since the other party wants to use financial means to capture the Huaxia soybean market, then Zhao An will not be timid. He wants to let the Lighthouse Kingdom experience the feeling of Waterloo on the battlefield he is most familiar with.

However, these things are still a few months away, and Zhao An must obtain enough rich results in the first battlefield before he has the capital to enter the second battlefield planned by Zhao An.

But now in the domestic soybean futures market, there is still a group of capital fighting Zhao An, which is worth hundreds of millions of Huaxia coins.

After three months of legendary futures operations, the 1.5 million that Zhao An invested in the market at the beginning has doubled several times.

Don’t think that money in the futures market is easy to make. Even if Zhao An knows the outcome of this war in advance, and there is a humanoid cheating device like Professor Song Qiao on the side, Zhao An is in danger because of capital sniping, and almost tore up the contract several times. , Global collapse.

In the financial market, the feeling of being powerless and unable to control one's own destiny is unbearable for most people.It is very likely that hundreds of millions of net worth will be wiped out overnight.

There are many legends in the futures market, but after the legends, there are many bones.

Win-win in the futures market is the biggest lie. Futures itself will not create wealth, it is a game of life and death.

Everyone entered the futures market with such an awareness, so Zhao An didn't have any heart to bear.

Now the businessmen who invest in futures contracts with Zhao An, their biggest reliance is that soybeans are priceless in the Huaxia market!No major player wants to sell soybeans at cost, or just a fraction above cost.

In the case of short supply, the price of soybeans will naturally be higher than the final equilibrium value.

These investors are sure that big companies don’t bother to make such a small amount of money for the sake of market share, while domestic soybean traders insist on the bottom line of 600 lighthouse coins. They don’t have to worry too much about soybean price fluctuations before the soybean harvest season in the lighthouse country. They have reached a tacit agreement.

The only way to break the current deadlock is to put enough spot soybeans into the market to meet the soybean demand of small and medium-sized manufacturers.

For others, this may be a dead end, but Zhao An has always hidden a hole card in his hand that he has not used, and that is a large amount of soybeans in stock!

As a member of the original inspection team, Zhao An naturally used all the special loans provided by the Export-Import Bank to purchase soybeans.

The three major grain merchants require settlement in lighthouse coins, which is one of the means by which the lighthouse country adjusts its import and export deficits.

And Huaxia has been working hard to save foreign exchange for economic problems. It is impossible for the country to provide a large amount of foreign exchange after providing a large amount of foreign exchange to the delegation just now.

Unless the company itself has a large amount of foreign exchange reserves, it can continue to buy soybeans.

Although Huaxia has been in a dominant position with a trade surplus in recent years, in fact Huaxia's industrial structure is very deformed, and food companies basically have no ability to earn foreign exchange through export.

Most of the foreign exchange-earning industries are manufacturing industries with low added value, and the state needs to use foreign exchange to purchase high-end industrial equipment such as biology, information, medical care, and electronics. Therefore, foreign exchange has always been managed and planned by the state/state.

When the country/country does not think it is necessary to continue to purchase large quantities of soybeans, it is difficult for food companies to prepare sufficient foreign exchange.

Even a few companies with the prefix of the country are impossible. They do not worry about the shortage but the inequality. As long as the government/government gives special treatment to the companies with the prefix of the country, other companies will definitely be dissatisfied.

In this case, the number of soybeans held by each member of the delegation is basically the same.

After the investors knew Zhao An's identity, they secretly collected information about food security.Knowing that Shian has never sold soybeans, nor used soybeans in the processing industry, it has been preventing Zhao An from selling soybeans at a critical time, causing soybean prices to fall again.

Deciding to conduct hedging operations with the soybeans in Zhao An's hands, these speculators directly established a fund pool.As long as Zhao An has the behavior of selling soybeans, they will carry out reverse operations to ensure the stability of prices.

They thought they knew Zhao An's cards and had prepared countermeasures.However, they still missed one point. Zhao An may not have enough foreign exchange in his hands, but Zhao An's mother has it!

Since the early 90s, it has been exporting, especially after 98, Hongxiu Foods has enriched the types of seasonings, and its overseas sales have continued to increase.

If a simple import and export enterprise has capital turnover problems, it will also convert it into Huaxia currency through the bank after obtaining foreign exchange, so as to expand production and reproduction.

But for Hongxiu Foods, there is no such problem. The high profits of Hongxiu Foods are enough to support its own development, so under Zhao An's suggestion, Hongxiu Foods has always kept foreign exchange reserves.

The way to reserve is also very simple, buy a large amount of national bonds, stocks, funds, corporate bonds, etc. of the lighthouse countries.With Zhao An's knowledge, Hongxiu Food's foreign exchange scale has been growing steadily.

During the private negotiation process between Zhao An and the three major grain merchants, Zhao An also signed an import agreement with the three major grain merchants in the name of Hongxiu Foods.

Among them, regarding the handling of tariffs, Zhao An reported to Director Ma and the Minister of Commerce successively. These series of operations did not have any violations, but they were quite hidden.

As food suppliers, Yuehua and Shian have their own warehouses in the harbor city.These soybeans purchased in the name of Hongxiu Foods have been quietly stored in the warehouse since they arrived in Huaxia, waiting for now.

On April 2002, 4, Rongding Investment Company.

"President Wang, don't worry. I guess that kid Zhao An can't help but sell the soybeans. Now the whole market is waiting for him to sell the soybeans in his hands. What I worry about now is not whether I can eat them, but whether I can eat them." You can eat it. There are quite a few companies eyeing this batch of soybeans."

A middle-aged man in a suit leaned against an office chair, put his legs on the desk, and talked confidently into the phone in his hand.

Rongding is also a well-known investment company in China, and this Manager Gu is even a well-known trader in the industry.

In the past few years, I played a role in the stock market and made a big name. Later, I thought that the leverage ratio of the stock market was not high enough, so I devoted myself to the futures market. In the past few years, I have gained a firm foothold.

Originally obtained insider information about the purchase of soybeans in the Lighthouse Country through some channels, and wanted to make a fortune in the futures market with this information, but who knew that they would meet Zhao An?

The financial market is very pursuing the timeliness of news. Even if it is the same news, if you get it one hour earlier and one hour later, the impact on investment strategies will be almost fatal.

Manager Gu also wanted to short the soybean market, but he entered the market a few days late because of the need to raise funds. As a result, all investment strategies were suppressed by Zhao An.

For example, Manager Gu was just about to make a futures contract at around 720 Lighthouse Coins, but Zhao An’s operation has already suppressed the price to 715 Lighthouse Coins.

Even though Manager Gu and Zhao An's predictions for the market were almost the same, the final result was a loss and a profit.

It’s not that Manager Gu didn’t think about jumping ahead of a certain price stage. For example, Zhao An was trading futures at 700 Lighthouse Coins, so he would go for the price of 650.

However, Zhao An and Professor Song Qiao will not go short all the way. At certain prices, Zhao An will even deliberately stay for a while, waiting for some large contracts to be delivered before continuing to short.

This is the grasp of the entire market, knowing how much money will enter the soybean market, and what strategy they will choose at what stage.

Dangrang Professor Song Qiao is not a god, and he cannot be a prophet.

In the past few months, Professor Song Qiao and his student team have been doing research on the soybean futures market, ensuring that they can give Zhao An the most timely and accurate operation plan.

Zhao An's right time, place, and people made Manager Gu a little breathless. The loss of private equity funds in his hands had already made him a little restless, so he joined forces with several other investment companies and market participants to plan a 600-million-dollar plan. Price sniper warfare.

After all, the futures market is a zero-sum game. No matter how much money Zhao An makes, there are as many people who hate and plot against Zhao An.

"Mr. Wang, don't worry. Look at the soybeans that Shian released a few days ago, and the delivery was completed within an hour. The stock in his hand will not affect the market."

After hanging up the phone, Manager Gu continued to wait in the office until today's situation, like a hunter waiting for a rabbit to hit a tree stump.

After a while, Manager Gu's subordinates walked into the office and brought the latest news.

"Manager Gu, Shian just sold a batch of soybeans."

"What? Didn't you buy it again?"

Manager Gu was very satisfied when he said this, even if he didn't get the soybeans, it doesn't matter, as long as someone buys them, the delivery price can be kept stable.

"Manager, the price of this batch of goods is a bit strange. Shian sells directly at the price of 610, but no one takes the order. And the 610 that domestic soybean traders followed suit also has no one to take the order."

"You show me all the data immediately."

Realizing that something was wrong, Manager Gu immediately began to study the data. Sure enough, as his subordinates said, no one bought the spot soybeans at the price of 610 just now, and now they are hanging alone in the entire trading market.

"Manager Gu, do we need to buy it?"

"Buy! Buy it anyway!"

To be honest, 610 Beacon Coin is not the price in Manager Gu's mind, nor is it even the price of other sniping Zhao An investors. Most of their contracts are 595-600.

Does Zhao An still have a contract in 610?Or is Zhao An ready to cash out and leave?These questions have yet to be answered.

But Manager Gu knew that if no one bought soybeans at this price, it would be sending a negative signal.

Imagine a market where all market participants lose confidence in the market when goods cannot be sold.At that time, even if someone maintains the order of the market, as long as one person starts selling goods, the market will gradually collapse.

In any case, domestic soybean traders cannot lose confidence in this market, so Manager Gu ordered the purchase of soybeans without hesitation.

However, not long after the purchase, Shian sold another batch of soybeans at the same price.This time, no one bought soybeans, so Manager Gu had to grit his teeth and buy them again. If he continued on this basis, even if he succeeded in dragging Zhao An down.Rongding Investment can't make much money.

Manager Gu still felt that something was wrong, so he immediately took out the phone book and called the owner of a soybean processing factory.

Rongding is just a financial company. It doesn't matter if it only operates futures, but if it involves the delivery of physical soybeans, you still have to contact the company.

"Boss Li, I'm sorry to bother you. Didn't I tell you about soybeans yesterday? I have a batch of soybeans here, and I can give them to you at a price of 600."

"What's the matter, didn't I come to you because I heard that you were in urgent need of soybeans? It's all for us to have more cooperation opportunities in the future."

"I don't need it for the time being, right? It's okay, Huangtu Food Company always wants these soybeans."

……

After making several calls in a row, Manager Gu's expression became more and more ugly, because all the companies that urgently needed soybeans said that they no longer needed soybeans!

Although I don't know what happened behind this, but it must be Shi An playing tricks behind the scenes

Manager Gu hammered heavily on the desk, shaking the documents on the desk, and cursed in a low voice:

"Damn little thing."

No matter how angry he was, Manager Gu did not forget the business.Immediately contacted several investors who agreed to attack Zhao An together,

Sure enough, everyone has discovered the strangeness of this matter, and they agreed that no matter how many soybean spot or futures contracts appear in the market, they must eat them all.

Now is the most critical time to compete for financial resources!

2002 year 4 month 8-9 day

Zhao An continued to sell soybeans at a price of 610 lighthouse coins, and even the futures contract period began to sell.

2002. 4, 10

"Manager Gu, the other party has already started asking about the delivery of soybeans, what should I do?"

In the past two days, he has eaten a lot of soybeans at the price of 610 lighthouse coins, and Rongding Investment is also a little bit powerless.

"Don't worry about it! Continue to buy for me. There must be no futures in the market. The price of short-term soybeans has risen to 608 in the past two days, and Zhao An will definitely not last long."

"Manager Gu! It's urgent!"

An employee rushed in without even knocking on the office door.

Manager Gu couldn't care less about other things at this time, and asked:

"what happened."

"Someone else in the market has started to sell spot soybeans at a price of 605..."

"Damn!"

Manager Gu already had a bad premonition in his heart. Sure enough, starting from 608, many domestic soybean merchants also began to ship.

For the past three days, domestic soybean merchants have also been observing the transaction situation. From the beginning to the end, only Zhao An was shipping at a relatively high price. The demand side in the market did not buy at all, and only financial companies like Rongding were eating.

After contacting them for some information, they concluded that the Huaxia soybean market is temporarily saturated!

If the soybeans in the lighthouse country mature in September, the price of domestic soybeans will inevitably drop again, so they must clear the market before September.

The current soybean market is no longer a normal supply and demand market, but a place to compete for capital. They really dare not continue to play with these capitals.

So they chose to sell it at a price slightly lower than Zhao An's. At the beginning, 608 would be swept away by the snipers immediately.

But as time goes by, the purchase speed is getting slower and slower, and even if the price of 600 lighthouse coins is listed, no one will necessarily buy it.

Panic suddenly grew, and the sell-off became more and more obvious. The price has been reduced to around 580 lighthouse coins, and the supply is still oversupplied.

At this time, a futures contract of 560 Beacon coins suddenly appeared in the market, and the whole market was boiling. Everyone thought this data was incredible, but no one dared to accept the order.

"Mr. Wang, I said that there must be room for profit at this price! It is really impossible for Zhao An to have extra spare funds and soybeans! As long as he can eat all of them at this price, the profit margin is really huge."

"Manager Yi, didn't you say continue to eat goods and contracts! What are you doing!"

"Can you break the agreement without signing the contract?"

"Stop the loss! Go to his #￥@'s stop loss! Just hold on a little longer! Don't give me any pressure from investors, we are private equity! Investment rights should be decided by us."

"Mr. Sun, listen to my explanation..."

Listening to the busy tone coming from the phone, Manager Gu was also stunned. Today he made more than ten phone calls. No matter who it was, his attitude was completely opposite to yesterday's, and he seemed to have completely forgotten the previous agreement.

In fact, any smart person can see that Zhao An is probably at the end of his battle.But there is another chance that Zhao An is acting.

Sniping Zhao An was originally a loose alliance, without any rules, only verbal agreements between them.

When the first participant is timid and unwilling to continue to purchase spot and futures contracts, he is doomed to failure.

This is like building blocks, as long as one participant backs down, panic and suspicion will spread rapidly, and then the loose alliance will collapse in an instant.

Manager Gu suddenly felt powerless, if everyone listened to his arrangement, then he would definitely be able to successfully attack Zhao An, but there are always cowards who want to hitch a ride!

Lying weakly on the sofa in the office, Manager Gu closed his eyes that had not rested for two days.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

The office door opened, and it was Manager Gu's most trusted confidant.

"Manager Gu, according to your instructions, let Rongding Investment continue to eat goods in the market. Then your personal account made a short contract of 520 lighthouse coins..."

"Stop talking, I didn't hear anything, you go down."

When the subordinate left the office, Manager Gu still didn't have to open his eyes.It's just that there is a smile on the corner of his mouth:

These stupid investors have already lost money anyway, so let me make some money.

He couldn't hold back his smile when he thought of the entry into his private account.

Manager Gu, isn't he a speculator?