Chapter 382 12 Disciples

Chapter 382 12 Disciples

Chapter 382 12 Disciples
Picking up the phone and pressing the answer button, An Rushong put the phone to his ear with one hand and stretched out his other hand to reach the half-pack of cigarettes on the coffee table.

"Ann," Mike's voice came from the phone soon. He said, "How are you feeling now? Are you feeling better?"

Hearing his two consecutive questions, An Rushong couldn't help laughing. He knew that the other party was making fun of him, because after the attack last night, Mike had called him almost in the early morning and expressed his condolences over the phone.

At this moment, Mike asked him these two questions. He must have read the previous news and knew that the US military in South Korea had begun to face up to the scandal of drug trafficking among its troops. This should of course be good news for An Rushong.

"Not bad, at least it's much better than last night," An Rushong said as he took a cigarette out of the cigarette box after laughing.

"Are you free now?" Mike asked.

"Haha, I'm freer than ever before," An Rushong said after lighting a cigarette and taking a puff, "After all, I don't even dare to leave the house now."

"Do you have a computer? Can you connect to the Internet?" Mike asked again.

"What's the matter?" An Rushong asked curiously.

"If you can, log in to your NGN now," Mike said, "I've sent you an invitation to join the group. Please accept it and we can chat in the group."

"Oh?" An Rusong had some doubts in his mind, but he did not ask more questions. Instead, he responded, "Okay, wait for me for a moment, I will log in now."

"Okay, we'll wait for you," Mike said again, and then hung up the phone.

Hearing the busy tone coming from the phone, An Rushong glanced at the screen, then stood up from the sofa and walked towards the stairs.

As the president of a large IT company, An Rushong's residence naturally could not be without computers. After he bought the villa in Renwang Mountain, the first room he decorated was his personal computer room.

Walking up the stairs to the second floor, An Rushong entered the computer room next to the stairs, made himself a cup of coffee, then sat down on the chair, moved the mouse, and woke up the monitor screen.

Click on the NGN icon, enter your account and password, log in to your account, and when the long strip interface of the NGN software appears, a buzzing sound will come from the computer speakers, which is a reminder that someone has added a friend or sent a message.

When he clicked on the message, it was indeed an invitation from Mike to join a group. An Rushong took a look and saw that the name of the group was in English, "Stock Mavericks". An Rushong was stunned and realized that the meaning of this compound word should be "maverick stock players".

An Rushong did not hesitate too much. He clicked the button to accept the invitation, and then the group interface popped up on the screen.

At this point, you can see a list of group members in the right sidebar of the group interface. Counting from the beginning to the end, there are a total of 12 group members, and the group owner's name is "Judas Iscariot".

An Rushong blinked. This name is very unique. It translates to "Judas Iscariot", one of the twelve disciples who betrayed Jesus.

and many more!

The 12 disciples of Jesus? There were exactly 12 people in the group, including him.

He looked at the group member list carefully again, and sure enough, under the group owner "Judas" were two group administrators. Their names were "Bartholomew" and "Simon Peter", which translated as "Bartholomew" and "Simon Peter", two of the twelve disciples of Jesus.

Looking through the member list from beginning to end, as expected, except for An Rushong's name, the names used by the remaining 11 people in the group are all the names of Jesus' 12 disciples, and the one left for An Rushong is "John" among the twelve disciples.

Well, this name is not bad. At least among Jesus' 12 disciples, John was the only one who did not die as a martyr in the end, although he was exiled.

Since he had seen the joke in the group, An Rusong changed his nickname in the group to "John" without waiting for others to urge him. As he changed the name of the group nickname, someone posted a picture of applause in the group's message box. The person who sent the message was named "Doma", but An Rusong clicked on the other person's personal information column and found that he was Macaulay.

Just when An Rushong wanted to send a message in the group to respond, someone from his NGN software friends sent him a message.

He opened the message window and found that the person who sent the message was Mike. He sent An Rushong a text document named "StockMavericks Group Rules".

Before An Rushong downloaded the document, Mike sent him another message, asking him to read the group rules first, and then he would understand what the group was for.

At this time, people started posting in the group, mostly welcoming new members, and some said that the 12 disciples had gathered and that they could start the formal action. From the tone of their voices, it sounded like a small cult group was planning some conspiracy.

An Rushong replied with a picture of thanks in the group, and then clicked on the text document that had just been downloaded.

The document contained a lot of information, was very long, and was written entirely in English. It took An Rushong a long time to finish reading it. Of course, in the process, he also figured out what this group was all about.

According to the document, all members of the group are from the "Seeking Alpha" website. 12 people, including An Rusong, are members of the website. The group was led by "Judas Iscariot", a senior member of the "Seeking Alpha" website, and the purpose of forming this group was to take advantage of the current good situation and make a fortune in the New York stock market.

According to the rules, members of the group do not know each other completely, and the only one who truly knows everyone's information is "Judas Iscariot", the group owner. If you want to join this group, you must first deposit a deposit of 100 million US dollars into the group's public account.

An Rushong did not pay out the money, but he joined the group, which means that someone has paid for him. Needless to say, the person who paid for him was either Mike or Macaulay. Of course, the former is more likely to be the one.

If you only look at the rules, anyone would probably regard this group as a "sheep pen" set up by scammers. Only a fool would pay out so much margin for no reason. The key point is that the rules only say to "take advantage of the current good situation" and make a fortune in the New York stock market, but there is no mention of how to make money or what projects to engage in.

How can this be considered a good situation when the Second Major Crisis is developing further? Is it black humor?
However, the middle and later parts of the rules also mention issues related to investment. According to the rules, every time the group has a project to invest in, the entire investment will be divided into 100 shares, and the group will auction the corresponding number of shares for each member to subscribe. As for the specific amount of each investment, the final auction total funds will be used to take the average, and the excess will be refunded and the shortage will be supplemented.

An Rushong just thought about it and figured out the rule.

For example, in an investment quota auction, 100 investment quotas are divided into 10 groups, each with 10 quotas. One group auctions 10, and another group auctions 20. After all the auctions are over, the group owner will add up the total funds of the 10 auctions and divide it by 10.
In the end, the price of a set of quotas may be around hundreds of thousands. So those who previously bid 10 per set will have to pay the difference of tens of thousands, while those who bid 20 per set can get the difference of tens of thousands returned to them.

To put it bluntly, this is a form of game, which itself is a test of the bidders' vision and courage.

After reading the rules carefully and making sure there was nothing missing, An Rushong closed the document and returned to the group chat interface. However, he saw that several people in the group were discussing something. While he was reading the document, the messages had scrolled for several pages.

As a newcomer in the group, An Rushong did not speak rashly. He dragged the scroll bar to scroll back and check the messages previously posted by group members one by one.

At this time, the group members were talking about Bear Stearns, which had been in a double liquidity and credit crisis since June last year.

Bear Stearns is a well-known securities firm in the United States. In terms of overall strength, it ranks at least in the top five securities firms in the United States. However, in June last year, two of its funds were exposed to huge losses, causing its credit to be widely questioned by the market.

For a securities firm, once there is a credit problem, all kinds of problems will follow, and Bear Stearns is no exception. Bear Stearns has been facing a liquidity crisis since September last year. Although President Bush and even the Federal Reserve have promised to save this veteran securities firm, such promises have always remained verbal, and real actions have never appeared.

However, just yesterday, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, once again leaked the news that the Federal Reserve will expand its securities lending program and lend up to $2000 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds to its primary dealers, and Bear Stearns is one of the Federal Reserve's primary dealers.

This news should be a huge boon to Bear Stearns. If nothing unexpected happens, with the endorsement of the Federal Reserve, rebuilding its credit should not be a problem.

However, during the group chat, a group member gave inside information, saying that Bear Stearns did not exist in the Fed's lending plan at all. This was a smokescreen released by the Fed. The real situation was that Bear Stearns was negotiating an acquisition with JPMorgan Chase. This negotiation, which was kept secret from the world, had even lasted for more than three months.

(End of this chapter)