My Side Job is a Trader

As the saying goes, "Negatives come and go", just when everyone was in the joy of the bull market, in the last few days of the firm offer, that is, in mid-May, the stock market crash came.

The stock market crash came without warning, and suddenly saw the K-line chart go downhill. Many people had no time to react, and they were directly blocked on the limit board.

Due to Zhang Xin's cautious approach, he couldn't find a suitable buying price before the lower limit. He wanted to wait, but the lower limit came. Therefore, Zhang Xin became the only one among the five who was able to maintain a profit.

Of course, there are still some regrets for Zhang Xin, that is, he was not able to decisively short at that time.

In the next few days, Zhang Xin was fortunate enough to witness several times the spectacular sight of a thousand shares falling to the limit.

It was only later that news broke out in the capital market. It turned out that the previous bull market was overheated. In order to expand profits, many people even used leverage to leverage the stock market through margin financing and securities lending. Later, the country decided to clean up the margin financing and securities lending business in order to reduce systemic risks. .

Because there are too many brokers and banks involved, in order to recover funds, they have withdrawn funds from the stock market, which eventually led to a stampede on the market.

Later, the fund manager chatted with Zhang Xin and others, and mentioned that several well-known traders in the industry failed to withdraw in time, resulting in liquidation, owed a large amount of foreign debts, and finally committed suicide by jumping off the building in despair.

This also made everyone sigh. Zhang Xin also knew from then on that the trader seemed to have a bright future, but he was actually walking a tightrope on the cliff.

According to the description of the fund manager, the industry often hears that a certain person has committed suicide because of liquidation.

After the trader training was over, the performance of the five people was remarkable, and the fund manager also felt that they were worthy of training, so they extended an olive branch to several people.

In the end, only Zhang Xin and Wang Shen did not accept the invitation.

It is because Wang Shen has his own ideas, he has a good family background, and he has the capital to operate by himself.

Zhang Xin also chose to refuse out of helplessness, because the company's traders do not have a fixed salary, and their remuneration comes from trading profits.

In other words, if the trader does not make a profit or even loses money, then he will not get a penny.

This is unacceptable to Zhang Xin, who has an ordinary family, especially after the stock market crash. Zhang Xin is not very optimistic about the market for at least half a year. If he stays, it means that he will probably have to pay living expenses with his family , After repeated consideration, in the end, he could only refuse the fund manager's retention.

For Zhang Xin at the time, the most important thing was to find a job with a fixed income first, so that he could realize the rhetoric he boasted in front of his parents before.

Unexpectedly, he made a joke with him in reality. After graduation, he chose to be a futures broker according to his major. As a result, the financial requirements of this position were not high. Instead, he needed to find potential customers by phone. Decide fate", Zhang Xin, who is too honest, is not suitable for this position, even though he does have a high accuracy of market analysis.

In desperation, he had no choice but to find a job again.

In order to save money, Zhang Xin accepted Wang Shen's invitation and chose to rent a house together with him in the relatively remote Chunjiang New City in Jinling. The average monthly rent was 600 yuan per person.

In the days that followed, Zhang Xin searched for suitable positions online every day, submitted his resume, and waited for the interview notice.

Wang Shen watched the market every day, and his family gave him tens of thousands of dollars to test the waters, so he officially started his trading career.

When Zhang Xin was waiting for the interview call, he also looked at the K-line chart together. Although he had no funds to operate, in order to gain experience, he used simulated funds to verify his judgment on the market.

After the market closes every day, the two will summarize and debate the market trend of the day, and the profit or loss of the day can well prove their respective views.

Wang Shen pointed out that Zhang Xin used simulated funds, which made him feel more relaxed psychologically, so Zhang Xin's record is beyond count, at least a discount is needed.

Zhang Xin also understands this truth, any reason in front of the facts seems pale and powerless.

Originally, Zhang Xin thought that he would find a job quickly, and then save a sum of money for his own business operations, but the result was that almost all of the job interviews were sales jobs. As for some jobs such as analyst assistants, nothing happened. , which made Zhang Xin very frustrated.

Wang Shen said comfortingly: "This kind of result is obvious. Stock or futures market analysts basically have high requirements for experience. If you are a fresh graduate, it is reasonable for people to reject you. Besides, our school is not What kind of prestigious school, even if you become an intern, people probably won't take a look at it."

After that, Zhang Xin started Haitou's resume, but the result was still frustrating.

Zhang Xin even planned to go to work in the electronics factory first.

Wang Shen stopped him, not because Wang Shen looked down on the workers, but because working in the electronics factory can get a good salary in a short period of time, but working overtime in the factory is normal. Once you go in, you basically have no chance to touch stocks or futures. What is even more dangerous is that once Zhang Xin adapts to factory life, it is very likely that Zhang Xin will form a habit and eventually obliterate the pursuit of his dreams.

As the weather gets colder and colder, Zhang Xin has less and less money, and finally has to borrow money from Wang Shen to pay the rent. As for the usual meals, Wang Shen basically pays the bill, and then writes down the daily expenses for convenience. Statistics later.

Wang Shen was fussy about money, and that was just out of habit. He knew Zhang Xin's difficulties, so he just kept the accounts, and didn't press for them.

Although Wang Shen's approach made people feel stingy, Zhang Xin could understand it. After all, his money didn't come from strong winds, and rich people seemed to be stingy.

2015 has passed in a blink of an eye. After New Year's Day, Zhang Xin is still a vagrant, and Wang Shen's situation is not optimistic. After a few months, his loss has reached 30%. This is because he is relatively restrained and strict. Control the stop loss situation.

Later, Zhang Xin's older sister, Zhang Qin, called him. Because Zhang Xin was not good at lying, she made up too many loopholes in her job, and her sister saw through it. Only then did the family members know that Zhang Xin had been out of work for the past six months.

The family members decided to let Zhang Xin go back to his sister's house first, and wait until a year later to talk about work.

After half a year, Zhang Xin was really unwilling to continue to rely on Wang Shen's support, so he asked his sister for some money, had a break-up meal with Wang Shen, packed up some clothes, and returned to his hometown of Jiangling.

Later, my sister learned from her proprietress that programmers were well paid and had many job opportunities, so the family discussed letting Zhang Xin become a programmer.

Especially after learning that the son of the boss's natal family also got started through training, my sister also wanted Zhang Xin to go this way.

After being out of work for half a year, my parents invested in a programmer training institution in Shanghai. After more than four months of high-pressure cramming training, the training ended in June 2016, and I barely mastered the basic coding skills.

Because he is more honest, Zhang Xin is really unwilling to get a job with good salary by falsifying his resume.

Fortunately, the first two years after graduation was the wave of Internet development. After more than ten interviews and rejections, Zhang Xin was finally spotted by a start-up company.

After that, I moved through two companies, and finally came to the current Internet company, that is, in March 2017, I entered this company called "Zhuhe Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.".

The scale of this company is not the same as that of the previous two start-up companies. There are two to three hundred people in the R\u0026D department alone, so Zhang Xin took a breath of relief after joining the company. There is no need to change jobs.