I can see big data

Chapter 181 Terrible Capital
Li Han was dealing with work here, when suddenly a piece of chocolate was stuffed into his mouth, it was still warm, not completely solidified, it was soft to bite, and the taste was quite good.

Then, Wang Man hugged his neck from behind and kissed him on the face, and said with a happy smile: "Husband, happy Valentine's Day, our first Valentine's Day."

"Good boy." Li Han patted her head, then sighed, "I spent the first Valentine's Day in the store."

"Oh, that's why I took a day off after receiving the certificate two days ago." Wang Man rubbed her face against his face and said, "It's not good to take a rest after two days."

"Then what will we do after we get married?" Li Han caressed Wang Man's face with his index finger, "Are you going on honeymoon?"

"Of course I want to..." Wang Man said happily, but then her face darkened, and she sighed dejectedly: "Of course I want to, but I have to take care of my mother, so I can't go out...and the cake shop can't close down." month?"

"My parents can help you take care of her." Li Han lifted Wang Man's chin and said, "Not for a month, how about that week?"

"Sounds good..." Wang Man bit her lower lip and smiled.

"Or..." Li Han thought for a while, and suddenly had an idea, "I have an idea!"

"What idea?" Wang Man blinked her beautiful eyes and asked expectantly.

"I'll keep it a secret from you now, and I'll tell you after we finish the wedding." Li Han tapped the tip of her nose, and then smiled triumphantly: "It's perfect..."

"Oh, you are so annoying." Wang Man said angrily, "Tell me, it makes my heart itch!"

Li Han took a sip on Wang Man's mouth: "I'll tell you when the time comes."

Wang Man seemed a bit unwilling, but she held back for this surprise.

In the next week, Li Han's company was stable, and Li Han himself took advantage of this period of time to think about the wedding because he had nothing special to do.

Although he can directly use the big data app to recommend, at least he wants to decide with Wang Man on the wedding.

A week later, the blizzard in New York arrived as scheduled, and this blizzard not only hit New York, but also caused serious snowstorms in many places in the United States.

Since this day, although the power system has not yet been paralyzed, the price of electricity has begun to skyrocket.

Li Han is not surprised by this at all, after all, there have been many precedents for this kind of thing in the United States.

The most typical example is the notorious Enron Energy Company, which had a financial scandal back then.

Enron was founded in 1985, starting with natural gas energy, and then entered the power industry in the era of electricity distribution liberalization.

At that time, electricity was pushed into the spot market, and electricity prices were dominated by short-term supply and demand.In other words, the price of electricity is expensive during the peak period of electricity consumption, and the price of electricity during the off-peak period of electricity consumption is cheap.

At first glance, it seems that there is no problem, supply and demand determine the price, but in fact this makes the electricity market a lot more "operational".

For example, capital can sell electricity at a high price when there is a shortage of electricity, and then buy it back at a low price when the electricity overflows, making crazy arbitrage.

Relying on this method, Enron made a lot of money, and the company's market value was as high as 800 billion US dollars.

However, with the development of the times, the production capacity has gradually increased, and everyone has no shortage of electricity, so the price of electricity will inevitably come down.

That didn't stop Enron from making a profit, though: If there wasn't a shortage of electricity, it was artificially created.

For example, the circuit of the power plant is blown to cause a large-scale power outage, or the power plant is required to be closed for a period of time for maintenance, and then the power is sold at a price three or four times higher when the public facilities are short of power.

During the 2018 California fire, when the power system was overloaded due to high temperature, the traders of the power company were shouting "let it burn!", and then drove up the price of electricity, while praying for another earthquake to add to the fun.

So when they really encountered a natural disaster like Blizzard, these capitals were simply ecstatic: the opportunity to make money has come!

Li Han watched these people operate wildly in the futures market, and secretly felt that this country was really scary.

Before he went to the cake shop during the day, the electricity price was still $4 per kilowatt-hour, but when he had dinner with Wang Man at noon, the electricity price soared to $12, and at this moment there was not even a large-scale power outage due to the blizzard.

Li Han looked at the next curve while eating. This curve made him tremble with fear: Starting today, the subsequent curve will skyrocket to a terrifying degree, and the electricity price will soar to more than 200 US dollars per kilowatt-hour in just one month.

Of course, this is a good thing for him and the Hashiguchi company, but it gave him a very bad feeling.

Because in their country, if this kind of thing happened, the country would have taken action long ago, and those who maliciously speculated on electricity prices would probably be imprisoned.

But New York is not their country after all. When the New York government will take action is unpredictable.

Li Han doesn't want to take risks, so he plans to sell the futures on hand as soon as possible after two days, when the electricity price rises to the peak of the curve he predicted.

Otherwise, in case the New York City government intervenes in the electricity price before they have time to sell, it will not be worth the loss.

The heavy snow made Li Han restless. These days, he didn't have much time to deal with other things, so he just stared at the electricity price in New York every day.

After two days of blizzard, New York State finally began to experience large-scale power outages.

Li Han got up this morning and saw that the price of electricity had risen to more than 40 dollars per kilowatt-hour, but when his company bought it, the electricity price was between [-] and [-] dollars per kilowatt-hour.

If they sell all the futures on hand now, the funds can be doubled by more than ten times.

This price has reached the peak of the curve he saw with the "branch calculation" at first, so although the price of electricity continues to rise, Li Han has decided to change hands of the futures contract in hand.

It will cause this phenomenon, obviously because too much money has been invested in this market and the results are beyond expectations.

Rich people sensed business opportunities, so they began to artificially drive up electricity prices, taking advantage of the fire and looting to make a fortune.

The madness of these capitals is beyond Li Han's imagination. In his opinion, the New York City government will end soon.

Therefore, after arriving at the cake shop, Li Han didn't participate in the operation of the cake shop, so he immediately ordered the company to sell the futures, and he also started to sell the electricity futures contracts he bought.

Because the United States has now entered winter time, the trading time is exactly from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am in China, and trading is just possible during this time period.

During the transaction, Li Han was still worried about what might go wrong, but it turned out that he still underestimated the capital of the United States. Not only did the transaction go smoothly, but the price continued to rise during the transaction.

When the final transaction was completed, the electricity price had risen to more than 50 US dollars per kWh.After deducting various handling fees, Qiaokou Company's 23 million funds became 3000 billion, while Li Han's own 3 million became more than [-] million.

Moreover, the income from futures does not need to pay taxes, and the income is as much as the income.

At this time, they have sold all the electricity futures on hand, but there are still some gasoline and diesel futures on hand that have not been sold, and their prices are also slowly rising.

When these gasoline and diesel futures are also sold, they can make another profit.

As for how crazy the electricity market in New York will be after that, it has nothing to do with them.

However, Li Han still intends to continue to pay attention to the electricity price in New York: Although the electricity price has increased dozens of times compared to the beginning, it seems unbelievable to normal people, but this electricity price is not worth mentioning compared to the previous electricity price in California. .

After the collapse of Enron, according to the investigation conducted by the government, the company once raised the price of electricity to 9999.99 US dollars per degree.The reason why it is not higher is because the system at that time only had six figures, and it could not continue to be higher.

And even in the blizzard in Texas, the electricity price was fired to more than 600 US dollars per kilowatt-hour, and the power suppliers were making money.

The reason why New York's electricity prices have not risen so high this time is still related to their power grid.

The power grid in Texas is completely independent, and other states cannot import electricity if they have surplus electricity. However, the power grid in New York is interconnected with the eastern power grid and can support each other to a certain extent, so the increase in electricity prices is not so exaggerated.

But even so, they have already made a lot of money.

As for when the New York City government will intervene in this matter, it has nothing to do with him.

After completing the last transaction, Li Han's worries completely dissipated, leaving only a burst of ecstasy: It's done!

Now that he has [-] million in personal funds, he can use [-] million to invest in his own food company for development.In this way, the funds needed to open a store in Beichang City are more than enough, and even branch stores can be established in two or three other cities.

However, he is not prepared to invest so much at one time, the risk is too great.It is not convenient to manage branches in other provinces, so it is best to let the franchisee manage them, and he can leave a part of the funds for development.

As for the cash flow of Qiaokou Company, it reached more than 20 billion yuan at once, which is enough for this year.

"It's decided!" Li Han jumped up, "In the next three months, we will open the Vegetable Market to other provinces!"

"What are you making such a fuss about?" Wang Man was reading a book at the cash register and gave him a blank look.

"Oh, beautiful." Li Han came to her side, put his arms around her shoulders and sighed, "It's better to be born in our country."

"Why did you say that suddenly?" Wang Man asked curiously.

"Look, when we had a blizzard last month, let's not talk about commodity prices, at least the water and electricity prices didn't go up, right?" Li Han sighed, brushing her braids, "Look at the poor residents of Texas and New York, a blizzard It would bankrupt them."

(End of this chapter)