America's Road to Wealth

The evening breeze blows, and night falls on Maui, Hawaii.

Evenings with clear weather and light wind are often the most comfortable times in Hawaii.

After spending the afternoon swimming on the beach and going out to sea to watch whales.

The relationship between Amanda and Abel is obviously much more familiar.

The two cousins ​​also stayed in Abel's manor beach house.

After dinner at the beach house restaurant, everyone dispersed to wash up.

About half past seven.

After Amanda Hearst took a bath, she happily took her cousin Lydia Hearst with her and wanted to go find Abel.

Lydia looked a little resistant:

"Amanda, just go by yourself. I think you can take him down by yourself."

"I also have such confidence." Amanda said confidently.

"But I still need you to cover for me, Lydia. Obviously when you are here, that guy will be even more unable to resist me."

"Ha~" Amanda sneered, "Sisters are indeed very attractive to men."

Lydia looked at Amanda who said such words speechlessly.

"Then I have to sacrifice myself for your plan?" Lydia Hester asked.

"Then I don't want to!"

"You are thinking too much. Lydia, I just need your help!" Amanda said:

"If you really want to compete with me for a man, then I will be angry!"

"Then you still asked me to come over?" Lydia said.

"It's not like he has the same bad qualities as other men." Amanda muttered.

"Sisters, sisters. Lydia, just help me."

Lydia Hearst was helpless.

She wanted to refuse, but under Amanda's persistence and forceful dragging.

In the end, she accompanied Amanda to find Abel.

When they entered the perimeter of one of the three master bedrooms, the two were stopped by the bodyguards.

Already said before.

This Hawaiian beachfront villa has a total of three master bedroom levels in a super luxurious independent house.

These three large bedrooms at the master level are all independent of the garden courtyard.

Abel's master bedroom has the best location and is closest to the sea.

The ocean channel where you can swim directly to the sea from the villa is also closest to this bedroom.

"Sorry, Miss Hurst. Are you okay?"

The bodyguard captain Edward asked softly.

"We want to find Abel." Amanda's attitude was quite polite.

"Cough cough cough"

Edward coughed quietly and said:

"Maybe not now. Our BOSS is resting with Ms. Theron."

"Sleep?" Amanda raised her pretty eyebrows, "Have you rested so early?"

Edward thought to himself that rest is rest, and sleeping is sleeping.

It's just not the kind of sleep you imagined.

"Yes. Boss, it should be inconvenient for him for the time being." Edward said.

Amanda wanted to say something else, but Lydia Hester pulled her away.

After leaving the range of the bodyguards.

Amanda said dissatisfiedly:

"Lydia, what are you doing? Don't you think it's strange? Abel took a rest so early? This is abnormal! There must be something wrong."

Lydia Hester looked at her cousin angrily.

"Going to bed at half past seven. It's indeed abnormal. But Amanda, are you sure you really just "sleep"?"

"Forehead"

Amanda understood immediately what Lydia was referring to.

"You mean..." Amanda whispered:

"Abel is doing that kind of thing with that Charlize?"

"Otherwise?" Lidya raised her beautiful eyebrows.

After having enough wine and food, we spent the afternoon playing with three beauties during the day.

Abel is still so young.

Is it normal for you and Charlize to go "play" together at this time?

"Okay." Amanda gritted her teeth, "Then we'll go there later!"

Lidya is really defeated by her cousin.

Don't you give up?

Obviously, they are already doing that kind of thing with other women!

after an hour.

Amanda dragged her cousin over again.

On the outside, it was still blocked by Edward.

"Didn't you just say that your boss is "sleeping"?" Amanda said dissatisfied.

When she said the word "sleep", she deliberately emphasized her tone.

As if she wanted Edward, the bodyguard captain, to understand what she was referring to.

"Uh." Edward was stunned. He already had two children and was almost forty years old. He had a headache looking at the two young girls.

The bodyguard captain Edward took a few steps back and decided to let the female bodyguard captain Tony come over.

Let Doni deal with these two young ladies from the Hearst family.

Dhoni comes here.

When facing the two girls, she was much more direct than Edward.

"Two Miss Hesters. That's right, the boss is indeed sleeping."

"But you may not know. When our boss sleeps, he usually sleeps for several hours."

Amanda frowned, "Ma'am, we understand what "sleep" means. But we don't understand what you mean by "sleep for several hours."

Tony looked at Amanda and thought to herself - little girl, you don't know how terrifying our boss is in this regard!

"That's the literal meaning." Tony decided to be more straightforward.

"Our boss sleeps with Miss Theron or his other female companions for several hours at a time."

"What?!" Amanda was shocked.

She still wanted to speak.

Gone again to cousin Lydia Hestra.

"No way, that woman is just lying!"

Walking to a deserted place, Amanda emphasized to Lydia:

"Although I haven't experienced it yet! But that kind of thing, how many hours? How is it possible!"

"I have read a physiology textbook!!"

Lydia was helpless.

She felt that even if she had really seen it, there was no need to say it so straightforwardly, right?

There are also bodyguards from Rock Security patrolling nearby.

"Amanda, I don't want to go crazy with you anymore. Maybe Mr. Smith, in"

Speaking of this, Lydia was a little shy, but looking around, she lowered her voice.

"Maybe he is really like this in that regard? He is "busy" now, let's not go over there!!"

Amanda didn't believe it, but the past was indeed not the right time now.

When it was almost nine o'clock or ten o'clock, Amanda was determined to drag Lydia over again.

Lydia refused to fight even to death this time, so she was dragged halfway by Amanda and ran away.

Seeing Lydia running away, Amanda felt angry and decided to go find Abel by herself.

Amanda felt that Abel's bodyguard must be deceiving her.

Amanda has read physiology books.

How can a man take so long?

On the other side, Lydia originally wanted to go back to the room.

She was afraid that her cousin would go back and pull her out.

I simply decided not to go back to the room yet and would go back later.

She planned to go to one of the several living rooms in the villa, one of which faced the sea and was filled with spring flowers.

Stay there for a while and come back to your room later.

When she came to the living room, she was surprised to see Abel, who was naked from the waist up and had wet hair, obviously just taking a shower, watching TV.

"Ah~ Mr. Smith?" Lydia shouted softly.

"It's Lydia. Good evening." She saw Abel smiling at herself.

This smile made Lydia think of Mr. Smith.

Based on looks and figure alone, even if you go to Hollywood or the modeling industry, you can still have a good meal.

"Your"

Lydia wanted to say that you were still sleeping with Charlize Theron in the master bedroom, so Amanda went to look for her.

Abel didn't know what she was going to say.

He did explain a little bit why he appeared here at this time.

"Something happened in Southeast Asia, which may be an opportunity for my company. This living room has the largest TV in the whole villa. I came here to watch the news."

Lydia also saw that he was holding a remote control in his hand.

In the living room, the latest 52-inch LCD TV was showing news from Southeast Asia.

"Oh, oh." Lydia responded.

She looked at Abel's naked upper body, her face felt a little hot, neither advancing nor retreating.

When she was about to speak, she saw that Abel had ignored her and was concentrating on watching TV.

Lydia hesitated for a moment, and finally strolled in slowly.

Her curious eyes also looked at the content on the LCD TV.

She discovered that the content above was an international news channel from NBC.

What is being played above is a news event that happened during the day in a country in Southeast Asia called the Philippines.

In a news event, the Supreme Court of the Philippines announced that a general named Estrada would be deprived of his rights.

Also on the same day, another guy named Aluoyue in this country was sworn in as the new commander-in-chief.

Lydia knew about the existence of the Philippines, and she knew that it was a country that was more pro-American.

It seems that it was once a colony of the United States.

But Lydia has never been there. To her, that place is similar to Africa.

A European and American girl of her age. This impression is basically held for other places except Europe and North America.

That is to say, Lydia received a slightly better education.

At least I know the existence of the Philippines.

If it were any other ordinary European and American girl who had never traveled to the Philippines.

It is estimated that they have never heard of this place.

Lack of common sense is a common problem among most Europeans and Americans after the fall of the bear.

Naitoule education aims for this kind of effect.

Lydia also doesn’t know that Abel is a Wall Street tycoon and Hollywood tycoon.

Why would you care about the news of such a small and remote country?

Is there any benefit in a place like this that he values?

Lydia was very curious.

She noticed that Abel was watching the news.

He picked up a cell phone that looked like a satellite phone and started making calls.

She wondered if she should leave.

It doesn't seem very good to be here by yourself while others are on the phone.

But by some strange coincidence, Lydia didn't leave.

She said to herself:

[Mr. Smith knows I am here. He didn't let me go or he went away on his own, which means it doesn't matter if I heard the call. 】

"David, it's me."

".600 billion, have Lehman Brothers entered the market?"

".Well, where's your judgment?"

"Well, that's a correct judgment. You can do it yourself this time."

".This is a test...as long as the results of your test satisfy me."

"Then after this, you will be eligible for transactions of less than US$100 million in a single transaction and less than US$500 million in a single day."

".That's all I ask. But I won't say any more. If I say it, I might as well go back to New York and trade by myself."

".Nothing wrong. You just have to figure it out. That's it."

"."

Abel hung up the satellite phone.

He looked at the LCD TV and lost in thought about other international news.

The phone call just now was made by him on his own initiative to David Mellon.

What he was talking about with David Mellon was after he went to Hawaii for vacation these days.

Smith Capital initiated an international hedging investment under the operation of David Mellon and other employees.

The investment target is the Philippine Peso, and the goal is to make a profit by shorting the Philippine Peso.

simply put.

It is to repeat the same tactics that Soros played against several countries in Southeast Asia.

But on a much smaller scale, and a lot more restrictive.

Those small countries are no longer so stupid after suffering losses for more than ninety years.

But encounter the right black swan event.

For example, what happened in the Philippines today.

International hot money can still be manipulated a little bit.

That is, the profits will not be particularly exaggerated, and the operation is relatively cumbersome.

But precisely because the scale is relatively small and the operation is cumbersome, the risks are controllable.

Abel asked Smith Capital to give it a try without his own involvement.

Look at how much money Smith Capital can make just by themselves.

In other words, this is more than half a year since Smith Capital was established.

For the first time, Abel opened the company's trading and investment rights to other Smith Capital traders besides himself.

Before that, the entire Smith Capital.

Only he, the boss, has trading authority.

The daily task of other analysts and traders is to collect intelligence and analyze the market.

They will only be busy for a few days when Abel wants to play big.

This model is undoubtedly very abnormal.

No one on Wall Street did this.

If Abel doesn’t want to make Smith Capital bigger and only lets Smith Capital act as his own tool.

That can indeed maintain this abnormal pattern.

But now, under Abel's management.

Smith Capital + American Pacific Commercial Bank.

The combination of the two has already created the prototype of a Wall Street giant.

It is still an investment bank + commercial bank model, which has advantages over several other Wall Street investment banks.

Just if this abnormal pattern continues.

Then it will be difficult for it to grow to the same scale as other Wall Street giants.

More importantly, Abel is a little worried that his "talent" is a deadline.

If the time expires, I will lose it.

At that time, if Smith Capital still maintains this model.

That was the end of Smith Capital.

So Abel thought, while his "talent" is still there.

The scale of Smith Capital has also grown.

It’s time to expand Smith Capital and make it a serious Wall Street giant.

He thought about it and gradually opened up his permissions step by step.

First, let David Mellon and the company's traders have preliminary trading authority.

At the same time, we recruit talents widely and under our own supervision.

In a few years, Smith Capital will be expanded.

Strive to make Smith Capital one of the serious Wall Street giants before 2008.

It's the kind of real top Wall Street giant like Goldman Sachs, which has more than 20,000 "vice presidents."

This time, he asked them to try shorting the Philippine peso, which was how he started training.

If all goes well, Smith Capital will continue to expand its scale and recruit talents.

Then this was the first time he trained under the circumstances where he delegated power.

Under his leadership, David Mellon, who had almost forgotten all his investment skills after staying there for a year, was a little unsure of himself.

When encountering something big or small, if you don't ask Abel, the boss, you will feel a little worried and doubt yourself.

Abel was on Charlize just now, when he output the third time.

David called over.

Abel saw that Charlize was almost paralyzed from exhaustion, so he let her go.

Thinking about David Mellon's training, he also wanted to pay attention to the process.

Abel came here to watch the news and learn about the situation in New York.

So far, David Mellon and the others have done a fairly good job.

Smith Capital is involved in this international hot money hedging investment.

The total investment was about US$500 million, with twice the leverage, buying a contract worth 600 billion Philippine pesos and taking a short position.

It took three days, and the profit in the first two days was more than one million US dollars.

Such a big thing happened in the Philippines today, and the Philippine peso quickly disappeared.

This allowed Smith Capital, which was shorting the Philippine peso, to quickly reach more than 10 million US dollars in floating profit.

David Mellon was a little unsure. I don’t know if I should continue to hold it at this time or take advantage and leave.

Abel just asked David and other traders to make their own decisions on the phone.

But in fact, Abel's "gift" told Abel.

It’s time to leave directly.

The Philippine economy is just like that, and its foreign exchange market is also very small.

Being able to make a profit of 10 to 20 million US dollars is already very good.

At this time, it is best to leave the market directly. It is safest to arbitrage and leave.

After all, it is not a super market like USD/JPY.

In the entire international foreign exchange market, the Philippines has a relatively small market.

If you can earn a little bit, it's a little bit, there is no need to miss it.

I just don’t know what choice David Mellon and the others will make.

Abel was also curious.

If they are qualified, Abel will let them test a few more times.

Only after they really meet Abel's requirements will he open most of their permissions to them.

If he is not qualified, then he can only let David Mellon and his group of veterans continue to be Abel's own tool operators.

Abel then recruits investment managers who know how to invest from the outside.

Anyway, Abel has made up his mind to expand the scale of Smith Capital.

What he wants is that even if he doesn't have his own talent in the future.

This company can also make money normally like a big investment bank.

To be a Wall Street tycoon, you must behave like a Wall Street tycoon!

Thinking this, he stood up.

Turning around, I saw Lydia Hester standing next to her, looking at Abel herself, she seemed to be in a daze.

Of course he knew that Lydia didn't leave.

But just like Lydia thought.

Abel felt that this was not a big secret, and it would not matter if the girl heard it.

At this moment, looking at Lidya’s silly eyes, he smiled and said:

"Miss Hurst? Lydia? Lydia?"

"Huh?" Lydia woke up with a start.

Only then did she realize that she was in a daze when she looked at Abel's handsome profile just now.

This is a bit disrespectful.

Lydia immediately blushed.