Hollywood Hunter

Melbourne.

These days, Anthony Johnston deliberately put aside his work to help Simon deal with the operation of the Japanese financial market.

In more than two weeks, the North American side successfully completed the cash-out of the technology stock market, and local funds in Australia have also been credited to the account. The final capital scale reached US$1.57 billion. Among them, Simon himself has a capital quota of 500 million US dollars, the Johnston family invested 100 million US dollars, and other Australian capital forces totaled 970 million US dollars.

Speaking of, there are also many people in North America who want to invest in the game recently, but Simon chose to refuse this time.

More than 1.5 billion US dollars of funds are already a big goal, and continued increase will only dilute profits. Simon also did not intend to be a big market maker that would influence the direction of the Japanese stock market, and destroy the Japanese stock market. Other companies under his name will not want to do business in this country in the future.

Leading Australian capital into the market, Simon believes that the Johnston family will definitely be able to turn this favor into real connections and interests.

In North America, although Simon has the identity of an American, he has very little connection with the local forces, and it is impossible for both parties to establish a deep friendship by just bringing in any people and making a big profit.

In fact, Simon had unknowingly had the idea of ​​making the Australian Gang a personal backing. Of course, the Australian gang here is definitely not Hollywood Australian filmmakers, but local capital forces in Australia.

The power structure of the American chaebol has been set for many years. After all, such a capital upstart can not compete with the old chaebol, and he does not have any idea of ​​which side he is attached to.

Therefore, to ensure that the industry under his own name can continue to expand, Simon must have more bargaining chips.

In the confrontation between capital, the bargaining chip is capital after all.

Australia's current economy is still small, but it is a country after all.

Simon brought together Australian capital forces through interest linkages. The chaebol forces formed are absolutely no less than any established consortium in the United States. Moreover, as long as they operate properly, Simon can even gain a dominant position in this system.

Since it wants to formalize its operations, Simon has also officially registered a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands.

Compared with onshore funds that need to pay taxes on time every year, the biggest advantage of offshore hedge funds is that as long as the funds are not transferred back to the country, they do not need to pay high capital gains taxes. Fund holders can repeatedly use what should be tax Funds for capital operations.

Although it is not intended to operate in the long term, the fund always needs a name.

Simon once again presented "Game of Thrones" and named this hedge fund Cersei-Capital, codenamed "Bad Woman". Moreover, like Daenerys Entertainment and Melisandre, Cersei Capital also uses Westeros as the holding parent company.

The entire US$1.57 billion of funds must not be concentrated under one fund. Simon has set up five sub-funds controlled by Cersei Capital, each with a capital scale of approximately US$300 million.

Affected by a series of other hot events such as the Wall Street Journal article at the beginning of the month and Simon's statement, the Japanese financial market was very active in February, and Simon quickly completed the initial layout after receiving the funds.

As of the last trading day of the week on February 17, the five sub-funds controlled by Cersei Capital have established long contracts on the Nikkei 225 Index futures with a total value of approximately US$7 billion on the two major exchanges in Singapore and Osaka.

Simon is very clear about his own advantages. What he can judge more accurately is only the macro trend of the Japanese economy.

The average number of open positions for this batch of stock index futures contracts is about 32,200 to 32,700.

If Cersei Capital can maintain a long position of about US$7 billion in the next few months, when the Nikkei 225 index reaches 37,000 points in Simon’s plan, only this investment can bring in a profit of US$1 billion.

The long contract with a total value of 7 billion US dollars only used less than half of Cersei Capital’s funds in terms of margin. The volume of the Nikkei 225 index futures is ultimately limited, although the two major exchanges in Singapore and Osaka still have not established strict Position restrictions, but because of the lack of takers, Simon can not increase the position indefinitely.

With the remaining funds, Simon began to let the trading team of the five sub-funds operate freely. Japan’s stocks, government bond futures, stock index options, and even other major capital markets in Asia that are also in full swing are Cersei’s hunting targets.

In the week that just ended, Cersei Capital's trading team completed a beautiful Japanese bond futures operation.

As a series of news in early February stimulated the rapid rise of the Japanese stock market, people from all walks of life speculated that the Bank of Japan would have to issue an interest rate hike policy as soon as possible to curb excessive market speculation.

Normally, the result of interest rate hikes often leads to a fall in government bond prices. If hedge funds look for opportunities to go short, they can get handsome returns.

Simon remembers that the Bank of Japan did not announce the first interest rate hike in several years until May. At that time, the Japanese stock market and property market had already missed the best opportunity to prevent market collapse through tightening policies.

Even if history has changed, Simon does not believe that the Japanese government will announce a rate hike three months in advance.

Only the rumored news caused market turbulence. Japan's various classes, who have been immersed in the phantom of economic prosperity, obviously did not want to rashly introduce interest rate measures to break the current good situation as a last resort.

Confirming this judgment, Cersei Capital’s trading team has established a total of US$6 billion worth of Japanese government bond futures positions since last week, half of which are long and half are short.

The margin ratio of government bonds requires only 3%, which is about 33 times the leverage.

With the news that the Bank of Japan is about to raise interest rates further spread, Japanese government bond futures fell sharply after the start of trading this week, and the trader team also closed all short positions in time before Wednesday.

Then, on Thursday morning, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Finance of Japan publicly clarified that the Bank of Japan has no intention to raise interest rates recently.

Japanese government bond futures rose accordingly.

Simon is not greedy for too much. Before Friday, he asked the sub-fund trading teams to close all long positions.

The volatility of government bond futures is usually very small, which is why investment leverage can exceed 30 times. However, this week, Cersei Capital still successfully earned $36 million.

Speaking of it, this operation actually made use of some inside information, otherwise Cersei Capital would not be able to accurately liquidate short positions before Thursday.

Japan's rapid economic rise in recent years, especially the development of the real estate industry, has led to a substantial increase in its demand for various types of mining resources. Australia happens to be a country rich in mining resources.

Therefore, the economic ties between Japan and Australia over the years have been very close, and the same is true for all sectors of politics and business. The Johnston family has a large-scale subsidiary in Japan, managed by Janet's second brother Norman Johnston.

Japan's Ministry of Finance will release a clarification on Thursday, which was sent back by Norman Johnston, who was on a business trip in Tokyo recently.

Simon did not feel any guilt for this insider operation, nor was he worried about being discovered.

Many well-known hedge funds in memory have invited a large number of politicians to join the company's board of directors. For example, the current British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who joined the famous Tiger Fund in the 1990s and became a member of the board of directors of the other side.

Probably no one is naive enough to think that these hedge funds invite politicians to join in order to consult them for investment advice.

On the other hand, affected by the rumors of interest rate hikes, the Japanese stock market also fell into turmoil this week, with a drop of 236 points at the opening day on Monday.

As of the close of February 17th, in five days, the Nikkei 225 index has only slightly increased by 76 points to 38897 points compared with the 38,821 points at the close of the market last Friday. Compared with the lucrative gains through the operation of Japanese government bond futures, the stock index futures long held by Cersei Capital has only $13.71 million in book profits this week.

Saturday, February 18.

Because most of the "Batman" story takes place at night, it was still shot at night yesterday.

This situation will probably last until mid-March, and the last few weeks will be studio shooting, and Simon will not need to turn around day and night.

Melbourne does not have the professional studios of major Los Angeles studios. During this time, the crew and prop team have been using a large factory building in an abandoned factory in the western suburbs of Melbourne to build ‘Bat Cave’ and other film sets.

Although it was the weekend, during this period of time an extra three hours of work were added to take care of Cersei's capital, but the habit has been developed, and Simon still only slept for five hours and woke up on time.

Breakfast was eaten with Anthony Johnston.

Out of caution, the dining place is not in the Kendall Hotel restaurant, but a nearby cafe that offers breakfast.

Simon does not expect Cersei's operations to be absolutely confidential. Too tight is not a good thing, he only hopes to keep the news within a certain range as much as possible.

However, because Simon's record in 1987 was so brilliant, the people who stared at him this time are also pervasive.

Temporarily set aside other things to cooperate with Simon's operation of Cersei Capital. One of the main tasks of Anthony Johnston is to help improve confidentiality measures. For this purpose, the team also hired a retired official from the Australian National Security Department as a consultant.

The telephones of the Simon Hotel suites have now been transformed into encrypted dedicated lines. The daily meetings with various sub-fund managers and analyst teams to discuss investment strategies are not in the hotel, but in the tightly secured headquarters building of the Johnston Holdings Group in the heart of Melbourne.

Even, in order to avoid revealing Cersei Capital's various investment holdings, the five sub-fund teams do not know each other who they are.

Anthony also told Simon in private that he arranged for people to monitor each team, and once the internal ghosts that leaked information were discovered, they would be eliminated as soon as possible.

When it comes to fund operations of more than one billion U.S. dollars and a considerable scale of expected returns, this rigorous caution is not excessive. Simon is very satisfied with Anthony's arrangements. At least, regular anti-eavesdropping tests can allow him Don't worry about bugs appearing in your room again.

Simon felt his scalp tingling every time he thought of the Manhattan Plaza Hotel.

There were not many people in the cafe on weekend mornings. Simon and Anthony were sitting in the corner by the window, and two bodyguards stood nearby to prevent outsiders from approaching.

After a few casual chats, Anthony mentioned Cersei Capital’s “mean” return on the stock index futures market last week. He felt that Simon was a bit too conservative.

Simon took a sip of juice and put down the cup to explain: "Tony, you must have seen my work on S&P 500 index futures. Like last time, I bet on a macro trend, as long as the Japanese stock market continues to rise. Going forward, our positions on the Nikkei 225 index futures will be able to obtain very stable and generous returns. As for government bond futures and other aspects, the variables are too big. We made money last week, but we may lose all of them next week. In my opinion, many excellent hedge funds are driven by this impulse to get more, but they cause losses, thus lowering their profitability."

Anthony has learned his general idea of ​​operation from Simon.

Compared with the time in 1987, Simon's goal this time can be said to be very low. He only hopes that Cersei Capital's funds will double before the Japanese market turns, and no extravagant expectations.

After chasing the rise, and making some profits in the process of killing the fall to pay taxes and trader team commissions, Simon is satisfied.

If the Japanese stock market can stick to the same direction as the original time and space, Simon will be able to turn his attention to the crude oil futures market when he completes the operation here.

Of course, Simon also knows that because of the influence of his big butterfly, it is not realistic to have such expectations now. However, he still firmly locked the peak of the Japanese market at 38,000 points and plans to withdraw from 37,000 points.

Perhaps this time it will crash prematurely, or it may accidentally break through 40,000 points.

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In any case, Simon will suppress his fear of a premature crash and his greed for the market to be higher, and insist on locking his goal.

Similarly, because he understands his true strength, Simon will not adopt a risky investment strategy. He has planned to invest his excess funds in the Japanese stock market as much as possible next.

Compared with the ever-changing financial derivatives market, the risk of direct speculation in stocks is very low. The bull market cycle that can last at least half a year is also sufficient to ensure that Cersei Capital obtains very generous returns.

Anthony Johnston has actually been warned by his father not to interfere with Simon's decision wisely. He only needs to ensure that Simon can complete this operation without distraction.

Listening to Simon's explanation, Anthony stopped at the right time and smiled and said, "Okay, Simon. Besides, your birthday is coming, so you have to celebrate it. Do you plan to arrange it yourself, or I will come? Oh, Jenny. I will probably be back in two days."

Simon was not welcome, and said: "Tony, then I will trouble you. I will give the crew a day off next Wednesday, and you will decide the guest list."

Anthony nodded and said, "In this case, let's be in the suburban mansion. I will start preparing for the party tomorrow."

The two chatted like this. After breakfast, Simon returned to the hotel.

As usual, Jennifer prepared a stack of documents that Simon needed to review today.

Leaning on the leather chair, Simon saw Nancy Brill's plan about the Blockbuster data analysis team and the movie data database, and was really surprised. He did not expect that this woman had already developed the concept of ‘big data’ so avant-garde before the Internet age.

Movie data database, if you add Internet elements, it is obviously IMDB (Internet-Movie-Database). Amazon acquired IMDB for online sales of DVDs and video tapes, and Netflix used the concept of big data to establish its dominant position in the streaming media field.

Now, a little woman has proposed both options at once.