Chapter 488: Arrangements Complete

Liu Yutong: “Chen Mo, for the first step—building leveraged positions—just follow my instructions. Any issues?”

Chen Mo replied: “No issues. I’ll use the Ghost Positioning method—splitting large orders into numerous micro-orders and mixing them into trades during peak liquidity hours to avoid leaving obvious short-selling traces.”

“Good!”

Liu Yutong continued: “We’ll use 75% of the capital as our main force, plus another 15%—approximately 100 million US dollars—to simultaneously short-sell several tech component stocks with the highest weighting and most vulnerable fundamentals in the NASDAQ 100 Index, like Apple, Google…”

“These individual stocks have relatively lower liquidity compared to index futures, making them more susceptible to panic through concentrated sell-offs—perfect for cooperating with our main force to indirectly suppress the index. Leverage for this portion should be controlled at around 10 to 20 times.”

“As for the remaining 15% of funds, purchase NASDAQ index put options with strike prices far from the current price and terms of 1 to 2 months. This is the highest-risk but also potentially highest-return portion. The options positions must be diversified across different exchanges and brokers…”

At this point, Liu Yutong paused to emphasize a key point.

“I know you’re used to setting stop-loss lines, but this time, don’t set them deliberately. As long as the index doesn’t suddenly skyrocket, it’s acceptable to lose half the capital at the start.

You must hold your ground and cannot cut losses and exit casually. Anyone who cuts losses out of fear, missing the chance to make big money—don’t blame me for being ruthless!“

Chen Mo recorded furiously, his mind reeling with shock.

This is truly insane!

Worse than a gambler’s madness!

This is equivalent to putting everything on the line!

“Finally, the intelligence aspect.”

“You need to establish an independent monitoring team. This team has only one task: to monitor 24/7 the credit default swap spreads, commercial paper rates, and any possible signals of liquidity exhaustion at institutions like Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Washington Mutual.

Especially across the Pacific, every Friday afternoon is when these institutions are most prone to funding problems.

The moment any one of them shows signs of collapse, immediately deploy our main force and increase short positions at all costs!“

Although Liu Yutong knew the approximate timeline of Lehman’s collapse, information gaps sometimes existed. So for safety’s sake, she had them establish this monitoring team.

This way, combined with the information she possessed, there shouldn’t be any problems.

Chen Mo responded: “Yes, Miss Liu!”

“……….”

As Liu Yutong continued arranging the relevant work and elaborating on her near-insane short-selling plan, everyone present showed expressions of astonishment.

Could a nineteen-year-old girl really conceive such a plan?

Regardless of the outcome, just listening to this plan—there were no flaws, and it was extremely thorough, extremely perfect. One could even call it “bloody!”

It felt like a hunting plan one would only hear at a core strategy meeting of a top-tier Wall Street hedge fund.

“That’s about everything, Chen Mo. Arrange for everyone to carry out their duties.”

“Yes, Miss Liu!”

Chen Mo pivoted sharply to face his team, ordering: “Everyone, initiate according to Miss Liu’s plan!”

“Capital Group, begin gradual fund allocation!”

“Trading Group, log into all sub-accounts and check connections!”

“Algorithm Group…”

“Intelligence Group…”

After Liu Yutong finished arranging all plans and tasks, an hour and a half had passed. It was almost 4 AM.

This reminded her of a famous quote from her past life: “Have you seen South City at 4 AM?”

She walked out of the operations center set up on the club’s top floor.

Liu Yutong said directly to Gu Yebai and the others: “During this period, until the operation ends, no one is allowed to use personal phones for any non-essential contact with the outside world. You must monitor this strictly.”

Gu Yebai and the others nodded: “After everything was arranged yesterday, I already had someone confiscate and secure all their phones.”

After all, with a business involving this much capital, who dares to be careless?

Not to mention, if tonight’s plans arranged by Liu Yutong were leaked, and something went wrong, the losses would be enormous.

This was also why they chose Cloud Summit as the location—besides convenience for monitoring, it allowed these traders to live comfortably. During this period, they would be isolated from the world. And due to time zone differences, they would basically be working through the night—quite exhausting.

In these circumstances, they should at least be given a good environment, right?

This place had top-tier guest rooms, 24-hour on-call Chinese and Western chefs, even a gym and cinema, etc.—enough to ensure these traders could get the best relaxation and rest under high-pressure work, avoiding operational errors from prolonged night shifts.

After handling these trivial matters, Liu Yutong finally felt a wave of fatigue hit her.

Continuous high-intensity thinking and planning—even with her youth—made her head feel heavy now.

She then went to the guest room Zhou Muchen and the others had arranged for her, ready for a good sleep.

At the doorway, she instructed Yun Cheng again: “I’m going to rest. Pay more attention to the materials collection tomorrow.”

“Yes, Young Mistress.” Yun Cheng nodded, then turned and left.

…………..

South City, on a street near Drum Tower.

Over thirty thugs with dyed green hair lay sprawled in front of a long-closed arcade.

Most remarkably, each had a vertical “Heaven’s Eye” painted on their foreheads with grease paint.

Except right now, most of them only had the Heaven’s Eye on their foreheads still “open,” their real eyes droopily closed.

From exhaustion!

The leader of the green-haired bunch checked his knockoff phone for the Nth time, growing impatient.

“Motherfucker, is that bastard Pao Ge coming or not? We’ve been waiting nearly five fucking hours!”

“Boss, do you think Pao Ge and his crew got scared? Too afraid to contest this arcade turf with our Heaven’s Eye Gang?”

“You think that’s possible?”

The green-haired boss snapped: “All I can sense now is that bastard Pao Ge stood us up! And how many times have I told you? We’re called the Heaven’s Eye Gang, not the Greenwood Gang!”

“Right, right, Heaven’s Eye Gang, Heaven’s Eye Gang…”

This green-haired fellow was Liu Hao, “Heaven’s Eye Brother.” After returning from his studies in Pearl City, he immediately set about transforming his crew.

Everyone went green—not just their hair, but their clothes too. Even everyone got a Heaven’s Eye.

Of course, most were painted on, to save money.

After unifying their look, he’d thought he was about to climb to the peak of his life, step by step.

He never expected to provoke a demon star.

That would be Pao Ge.

Pao Ge had been at the arcade with some of his boys playing video games. Seeing Liu Hao’s crew’s attire, seemingly reminded of some bad memories, he directly beat up Liu Hao.

How could Liu Hao let that slide? Using the advantage of numbers, he beat up Pao Ge and the few boys he brought along.

Later, Pao Ge had issued harsh words, saying he’d bring people tonight to teach them a lesson.

Liu Hao treated it like a major enemy, calling all his brothers to prepare for a big showdown.

Then… they lay down.

Just from exhaustion.

Because the other side really didn’t show up.

Finally, when Liu Hao couldn’t stay awake any longer, he received news.

Pao Ge, who brought over a hundred guys, had actually gotten his ass thoroughly kicked by someone else!