America's Road to Wealth

2001.

October 7th.

This day is very special.

This is a day that should be remembered by many.

Especially the citizens of the two big countries on the east and west sides of the Pacific.

On this day, something happened on this planet that is not very special for the present.

But it is an event that will have a long-lasting impact on the future.

On this day, the coalition forces led by the United States launched a battle in the name of anti-terrorism in the heart of Asia.

Afghanistan broke out.

The moment the news came out, the global financial market changed instantly.

Risk aversion has emerged, and the prices of many futures and financial products have experienced drastic changes.

Among them, international crude oil has fallen sharply and international spot gold has risen sharply.

But none of this has anything to do with Avril Lavigne in the master bedroom of the Hilton Hotel's executive suite in the Benson Heights section of Brooklyn, New York.

After waking up at noon.

She just felt so tired and her body was sore and painful.

Then she felt so hungry. She didn't eat much at last night's reception.

Apart from drinking some water, nothing happened.

After exercising for so long, it was normal to feel hungry and tired.

Avril struggled off Simmons.

She saw two mature and beautiful girls sleeping soundly next to her.

The pool is blue!

Seeing these two people, Avril Lavigne cursed inwardly.

If it hadn't been for them, I wouldn't have been so tired last night!

Thinking of this, she wanted to twist the two people as revenge against them.

But Avril was afraid of waking them up, and then she would be unable to fight with her own fists.

Then it will be the same as last night, but they will join forces to bully them.

Either one of them is "bigger" than her.

Avril felt that she couldn't beat one of them, and if there were two of them, she would only be bullied.

Thinking of this, Avril Lavigne had to give up the idea.

She cursed under her breath at Penelope Cruz and Sophie Marceau, and struggled to get out of Simmons.

Then she picked up her clothes on the ground - luckily, her clothes were not torn.

Much better than the other two.

She reluctantly put on her clothes and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.

Standing in front of the mirror, Avril, with her hair disheveled, noticed that her face looked haggard.

But he seems to be in good spirits. Even though she didn't use any foundation or rouge, her cheeks had a natural blush, making her very beautiful.

".I seem a little different?"

She was a little unsure and looked at it carefully.

"It seems to have really changed."

Is this the difference between women and girls?

She thought of the female classmates in her previous school who had sacrificed themselves early.

They will indeed look better, and their temperament will be much different from other female classmates who are still girls.

Avril Lavigne feels that she is different from girls now.

This doesn't seem to be something to be proud of.

she thought.

Pouting, Avril was so silent that she started to wash herself.

Ten minutes later, she limped out of the bathroom.

In the room, she looked at Simmons again.

The two of them were sleeping soundly and had no intention of waking up in a short time.

A big blue pool!

Avril Lavigne thought to herself, turned around, opened the door and walked out.

As soon as she walked out of the door of the hotel's master bedroom, which was well-soundproofed, she immediately heard his voice coming from the living room.

".Sell 100,000 lots first. Prepare the opportunity. Once the international gold price reaches 400 US dollars, sell them all immediately!"

"The London side will start the operation first. Pay attention, listen! My request is to close all positions, close them! Do you understand?"

"Yes, that's all! But now let's throw 100,000 lots, that's it. Let's see what's going on in the market first!"

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Hearing this voice, Avril's face subconsciously turned red, and she began to feel a little shy.

She could tell that he was busy, and after thinking about it, she plucked up the courage and walked out.

Sure enough, in the living room, Avril saw him sitting in front of six or seven open laptops, looking at the computers and holding his mobile phone.

After thinking about it, Avril Lavigne, who had become more courageous after last night, slowly walked out.

She came to Abel's side gently and whispered: "Mr. Smith? What are you doing?"

Abel, who had just finished contacting Smith Capital (UK) via his mobile phone, put down his mobile phone temporarily and turned sideways to look at Avril next to him.

The young Canadian girl has three-dimensional and exquisite facial features, long straight golden hair, and the smoky makeup on her face adds a bit of purity and youthfulness to her face.

"Are you awake? Sit down wherever you want. I'm looking at my company's investments."

Abel smiled and said hello, and then continued to look at the laptop monitor screen in front of him.

As early as 1985, the first true laptop computer was launched.

Launched by Neon Toshiba, a product called T1000.

In January 2001, IBM launched the ThinkPad TransNote laptop.

Big Blue innovatively combines the three major functions of handwriting input, touch screen, and notebook computer, making it a perfect solution for corporate administrators/college students, etc. who need to transition from paper media to electronic office and frequently take notes. The perfect solution.

The powerful performance of ThinkPad TransNote also provides financial investors with good office capabilities when going out.

Now in 2001, as long as you have a computer and can connect to the Internet.

Then you can learn real-time financial market information anywhere in the world through the special terminal software and floppy disks provided by Bloomberg.

Just like Abel is now, there are 6 ThinkPad TransNotes in front of him.

Their 10.4-inch screens presented several different market conditions to Abel, as well as surveillance footage from several financial operating rooms of Smith Capital.

Abels in Brooklyn can also check the surveillance and market conditions, and then use the phone to remotely control Smith Capital (UK) and the Smith Capital headquarters over at the Woolworth Building.

This is US East Coast time, 12:30 noon.

At this time, the North American precious metals futures market has been closed.

But like the foreign exchange market, international spot gold is London gold.

It is an investment that can be operated 24 hours a day.

The market in North America is closed, but other international markets are open at this time due to different time differences.

Smith Capital can operate the London gold positions and short contracts established in these markets during their opening hours.

This is why the international spot gold and international foreign exchange markets, such investment products, can operate around the clock.

Seeing Abel staring at the screen seriously, Avril let out a long breath.

Now that I have made up my mind, I have handed over my body.

She simply let go of herself completely and no longer restrained herself.

Avril took the initiative to come forward, held Abel's arm, breathed into his ear, and whispered softly: "What are you looking at?"

"London gold."

Abel was unmoved and easily held her soft waist. It was tight and elastic, which was the best thing about a young pony.

Avril's little face flushed, she pointed at one of the six laptop screens and asked: "What is this?"

"The company's traders have too much capital and need to spread their hands to operate."

Abel was a good teacher and willing to explain.

Whether it was last night or now.

"It's amazing. I've only seen it in movies."

Abel didn't care and turned to ask Avril: "You didn't wake up until now? Are you hungry? Let's go get something to eat."

Avril, who still didn't understand the amorous feelings, was stunned, looked at the monitor screen, and then looked at Abel.

In addition, she was really hungry, so she nodded obediently: "Listen to you."

The two of them ate lunch delivered by the rock security personnel and the hotel in the dining room in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the Hilton Hotel's executive suite facing the Brooklyn Bridge, New York's landmark building.

In the food, Avril found foie gras, which she had never eaten before, and pumpkin and shrimp shell soup, which she didn’t like.

She was willing to try the foie gras, but she refused the pumpkin and shrimp shell soup.

But Abel pushed the pumpkin and shrimp shell soup away from her and pushed it in front of her.

"You lost a lot of blood last night. It's good to eat this. It's rich in trace iron. And foie gras too. You should eat more of these."

Avril blushed, lowered her head and started eating shyly.

After the meal, Avril didn't run around and stayed by Abel's side obediently, watching him sit in front of the computer in the living room and direct the operations.

Under Abel's simple explanation, Avril gradually learned some financial knowledge.

For example, one ounce of international spot gold today costs US$395.57.

She didn't know that yesterday, one ounce of gold cost only $361.50.

I don’t even know what the difference between the two numbers 361.50 and 395.57 means to Abel.

She saw the monitor screen behind her.

The employees under Abel suddenly jumped up and danced excitedly, as if they were singing and dancing.

These suits and ties look like elite Wall Street elites. They look like this.

Avril felt very surprised, and she couldn't help but ask in a low voice:

"What's wrong with them? Why do they all look so happy?"

"Oh." Avril heard Abel's calm smile and said:

"They are celebrating. Just now, my company closed 200,000 London gold positions, with a total value of 20 billion U.S. dollars. It made a total of almost 9.5 billion U.S. dollars. Each of them can get a bonus of tens of thousands of U.S. dollars, so they are very happy now .”

"Oh." Avril responded naively.

After answering, she realized that she had heard wrongly.

She thought she had just heard "Two billion dollars." instead of "$twenty billion."

"Did you just say two billion U.S. dollars?" She couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"No, it's 20 billion U.S. dollars. There are still 30 billion U.S. dollars that have not yet been closed. We hit too hard just now and brought the price of gold down. Now we need to let it rise a little higher, so that when we close the position, The profits won’t retract so quickly. This way, we can make hundreds of millions more dollars.”

Avril was stunned by Abel's answer.

This time she concentrated on making sure she heard correctly.

The terrifying astronomical figures made Avril start to look squarely at the laptops in front of her.

All her energy was put on them and Abel.

Another half hour passed.

After hearing Abel explain to her that just now Abel's company had liquidated another US$10 billion in spot gold and made a profit of US$4 billion.

Avril's face suddenly turned red, and her slender thighs tightened unconsciously.

She felt that her whole body was very hot.

From last night to now, the experience of just ten hours, she felt, was even more exciting than the past 17 years.

The whereabouts of tens of billions of dollars in front of our eyes can be completed in this man's words.

He is so calm and decisive.

What kind of star singer, what kind of king and queen, what kind of pop music emperor.

They are all just bubbles and shadows.

When she woke up at noon, she felt very shy.

I still thought that I couldn't take the initiative, so I should let him continue to take the initiative.

But now, the punk girl just wants to sleep with him!

Sleeping with the world's richest man!

A gust of fragrant wind rushed towards me.

She was as passionate as fire and tender as water, as if she wanted to integrate him into her body, regardless of the other.

So after waiting half an hour, Penélope Cruz and Sophie Marceau woke up.

When they finished washing and came out of the bedroom to the living room.

I saw two people entangled in front of many laptops in the living room.

"Hey."

French Kiss smiled sarcastically, "My cute little sister is even more exaggerated than us."

Penelope shrugged gracefully, "I thought I was very hungry just now. Now I am sure that I am really hungry, but not from the stomach."

Sophie greeted her in a friendly way: "You are so green!"

"casual!"

On the evening of October 7th.

As various TV stations in the United States began to broadcast the battle that took place in the hinterland of Asia.

All Americans also know that this battle in the United States, in the name of justice, has actually taken place. .

On the surface, it doesn't have much impact on most Americans.

Except for some leeks who have invested in finance, after all, any battle has a very powerful impact on finance.

But in fact, secretly, this country has begun a slow but dramatic change.

It's just that at this time, no one knows the key.

That night, Abel also said goodbye to Brooklyn.

He took his three beautiful and soft-bodied children and moved into the "Peak" high-rise mansion on the top floor of the Woolworth Building.

Abel always lived in this house because he was afraid of danger.

It’s okay to stay here occasionally and enjoy the feeling of having the whole of Manhattan under your feet.

The three girls are of different ages, covering different beautiful age stages of women such as thirty, twenty, ten plus and so on.

They each showed their great surprise and vanity at being able to live in such a top-notch mansion in Manhattan.

Abel asked them to find a room by themselves.

This top-end mansion has a total indoor area of ​​968 square meters, 9 bedrooms, and 13 bathrooms.

It is more than enough for them to live here together!

Avril is still a little shy and ignorant, and the girl is a little embarrassed to accept such a direct performance.

The two European goddesses were not so polite.

In addition to the master bedroom with the best view, the two directly chose the other two better rooms.

Under their guidance, the punk girl became polite and chose the best one among them as her future residence in New York.

The night falls high and stars cover the ground.

The bright lights in the steel jungle of Manhattan dazzled Avril Lavigne standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

A punk girl who hasn't changed her mind after being born in a small Canadian town for more than a year.

After experiencing huge physical and mental changes from last night to now.

Stimulated by this external stimulus, Avril began her transformation.

As for Abel, he received the final call from David Mellon that night.

"Have all positions been closed? Very good. What is the total profit after deducting the capital cost?"

"18.569 billion U.S. dollars? Well, a very good number. But it will not be so easy to have such a good opportunity later."

"I'll leave the rest to you. Pay attention to the financial report, which will be on November 15th next year. By then, our financial report will blind the eyes of all investors and guests! Let them know how much money Smith Capital has made for them. How much did it cost?”

"So be it."

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The best view is from the master bedroom facing Wall Street.

Abel hung up the phone and put the phone casually into his pocket.

He stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the entire Manhattan like Avril Lavigne in the other bedroom.

Today’s harvest was planned by Abel for a long time.

Since this year, he has traded on international spot gold many times.

It has given people the impression that Abel and Smith Capital particularly like investing in London gold.

And before the big event happened, Abel had already made some preparations at London Gold.

These preparations will not make anyone suspect that he knew these black swans in advance, but they will also allow Smith Capital to enter the market quickly.

These preparations finally allowed Smith Capital to achieve an average position opening cost of around US$300 per ounce.

Open a huge contract with 500,000 positions in the international spot gold market and a capital of 50 billion US dollars.

Today, the war in Afghanistan has just broken out, global risk aversion has risen sharply, and gold has once again become a super hard currency that resists inflation and risks.

Take advantage of the fact that the price of gold is rising crazily today and is heading towards the $400 level.

However, Smith Capital began to liquidate a large number of positions quickly and urgently, even suppressing the rise in gold prices for a time.

In the end, under the crazy risk aversion around the world, Smith Capital successfully arbitraged and left the market, earning huge profits.

But it also suppressed London gold, which once broke through 400 US dollars per ounce, to around 380+ US dollars per ounce.

But that's all.

As the intensity of the fighting deepens, international gold prices will continue to rise.

Just not as exaggerated as today.

But Smith Capital, which has already left the market, will not enter this field again in the short term.

Abel's attention also turned from the financial market to another place.

That place is called Texas.

There is a company there called Rock Security.

There is a special PMC department within Rock Security.

This special PMC department has been established for more than a year, but it has not been used until today.

But after today, Abel decided it was time to take it to the stage.