Age of Dreams

In May, for the people of Shuchuan, basically they don't have any intentions to do things, and even the restaurant business is much worse.

But after all, the earthquake was too far away from people in other provinces, so after a brief period of grief and sympathy, everyone's lives continued almost unaffected.

Especially those things that are related to the national economy and the people's livelihood will not be stopped because of the Shuchuan earthquake.

For example, the oil sales plan led by Niu Ruzheng, Cao Zhichong and other petrochemical system bigwigs.

China is an extremely oil-poor country. The reason why we say it is extremely oil-poor is because we use too much oil, so we have to become the world’s second largest oil importer—before 2009, the world’s largest oil importer The oil importing country is still Japan.

Therefore, after buying super cheap oil with an average price of 50-60 US dollars a barrel, Mr. Bian praised the oil department a lot, let alone Niu Ruzheng.

The Chinese people pay attention to having food in their hands and are not worried. Now they have oil that can be used in the next two or three years, and the price is far lower than the international oil price. Who can be unhappy?

That is, Niu Ruzheng knew how the oil was bought, otherwise Cao Zhichong and others would definitely be praised even more.

This time, the oil clearance plan, relying solely on Cao Zhichong, is absolutely impossible to succeed. To be honest, PetroChina has no right to say that it has sold so much oil, let alone let Sinopec, CNOOC, China Aviation Oil, and airlines. It's also sold out together.

So Xiao Qi also contacted Niu Ruzheng and told him his judgment on the oil futures market.

Niu Ruzheng believes in Xiao Qi the most, but it is impossible for Xiao Qi to change such an important national oil strategy. This is not a question of believing or not. In his position, if he decides things so confusedly, the harm to the country will be huge.

Fortunately, Xiao Qi is smart enough. The time he told Niu Ruzheng was the end of February. And predicted the oil price trend in the next few months.

As a result, in mid-April, Niu Ruzheng called Xiao Qi, and after careful discussion and planning, he finally decided on the oil short-selling plan this time.

According to Cao Zhichong's gossip, Niu Ruzheng was under tremendous pressure this time, even Boss Bian, who was the most supportive of him. They asked him several times in private, asking him if he was sure.

After all, if you don't sell the oil in your hand, even if the oil plummets, you won't lose much, and you have food in your hand, so you don't panic.

But if it is to sell a large amount of oil storage. And if the price of oil does not plummet, even if Niu Ruzheng is planted on it, it is very likely that he will never get up again in his lifetime.

But who is Niu Ru?

The things he decided and spotted have never changed.

Since he chose to believe Xiao Qi in the face of factual evidence, Niu Ruzheng would not back down. After reporting to the palace, he began to actively plan specific matters.

PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, and China Aviation Oil purchased 4 billion barrels of oil together, and seven or eight oil companies bought 500 million barrels of oil in total. By the end of April, there were almost 4 billion barrels of oil left.

Excluding the oil that needs to be stored normally, 2 billion barrels of oil can be used for operation.

Wanting to sell 2 billion barrels of oil is not just pressing the button. Or it can be done with a phone call, which would be a bit tricky.

Moreover, even if it is so convenient, if you really do that, it is guaranteed that the oil futures market will collapse in one fell swoop, and your oil has not sold much, you will have to follow along with it.

To know. If the number of 2 billion barrels of oil does not impress you, then the total value of 260 billion US dollars. It always makes you feel scared, right?

Apart from the top few countries, how many countries have foreign exchange reserves of 260 billion U.S. dollars?

So the whole process is not just to be careful. It will take a lot of time and a large number of personnel to operate it in order to slowly sell at the normal market price and get huge profits.

Of course, huge profits are only second, the most important thing is to get rid of high-priced oil, so that oil companies have sufficient funds to succeed in bargaining at the ultra-low prices in the future.

Between selling and buying, the rewards are great, but the risks are equally huge.

There are several companies specializing in the trading of these oil futures in China. If the personnel of major companies are included, there will be even more staff.

At the level where Niu Ruzheng himself is in charge, the professional elites gathered in this big sale are not only the most reliable, but also the most professional and technical.

In the two months from early May to the end of June, they will slowly trade the 2 billion barrels of oil in the hands of 15 Chinese state-owned companies through more than 3,200 accounts. This task is not only complicated, And it is very tedious, requiring great patience and high concentration.

It was already mid-June, and the deadline for Niu Ruzheng and Xiao Qi to discuss was only 20 days away.

During this period of time, traders have sold 1.2 billion barrels of oil, with an average price of around US$125 per barrel. Not only is the price lower than the original estimate of US$130, it is even smaller than the expected number of sales. a lot of.

Calculated by time, it should be about 1.5 billion barrels sold now.

The reason for this is that beginning in mid-May, some people slowly followed suit.

After a careful investigation, the intelligence agency discovered that the person who followed him to the order was actually a Korean.

South Korea is the world's fourth-largest oil importer, and its oil dependence is much stronger than that of China. South Korea does not have a drop of oil on its territory, at least on land.

South Korea also bought a lot of oil some time ago, but according to their practice, no matter how high or low the price is, it is impossible to get it out.

But the fact now is that South Koreans actually thought of selling oil. Could it be that they also predicted that the price of oil would be over?

But today the mainstream media in the world are still boasting that Goldman Sachs's "oil price will exceed 200 by the end of the year and 250 US dollars a barrel next year" statement!

Niu Ruzheng did not expect Xiao Qi to play the role, and there was no way to seek confirmation from the Koreans on this matter. He could only think that it was the Koreans who made a mistake and rushed forward.

Because I joined the Koreans, the quantity and price of Hua Guo couldn’t meet expectations, and I didn’t even dare to make a statement. I could only reach a tacit cooperation when trading on the plate. Hello, I’m good, everyone, if there is a confrontation, then both sides will fail. No one wants to make a joke with tens of billions and hundreds of billions of dollars!

Xiao Qi didn't dare to speak at this moment.

He only now knows that Li Jianxi, these old cunning people, must have learned about the early selling of China through some channels, so originally Xiao Qi asked them to sell oil again in June, but they started to operate at the end of May.

If you bump into each other half a month in advance, you will naturally have the current results.

According to statistics from China, several South Korean companies have jointly sold more than 500 million barrels of oil, at a price similar to China.

However, what makes Xiao Qi feel strange is that even if the sold oil increases by 500 million barrels, the price of the oil market does not fluctuate much. The current price is about 136 US dollars, which is similar to the original history.

In the face of so many sell-offs, and can maintain such a high position, this kind of oil price is definitely not normal!

No matter in his past and present, Xiao Qi has pondered this abnormal rise in oil.

The most reasonable explanation is that the major oil financial crocodiles want to increase oil prices, and then wait for fools to take over, and sell at a high position to make money and leave.

What I didn’t expect is that although the US government is often criticized as “stupid than a pig”, this time, in order to save the entire US economy, it staged a good show with the Federal Reserve, directly bringing this group of financial giants. The crocodile served a pot, directly causing the price of oil to plummet all the way, and finally dropped to freezing point.

There is a very important point in time here, that is, when the price of oil rises to $147.

This price has exceeded the tolerance of the US government, so I just hit it hard!

According to the memory of previous lives, the time of reaching this price is the most important. It doesn't matter whether it is in mid-July.

Therefore, Xiao Qi gave Niu Ruzheng a price he predicted-145 dollars.

Once there is a trend to reach this price, then it must be sold sharply.

In fact, if you go to www.wuxiaspot.com for $140, you have to speed up the selling speed, lower the oil price, and let yourself run more.

I want to come to the international financial speculators to ponder, since they are all speculated to this point, there is no need to be suppressed in this way, so it will still be firm at around 140.

Of course, this is not all their own funds. Financial speculators only need to invest some funds to make a positive upward trend in oil prices. When a general trend is formed, there will naturally be idle funds to follow as cannon fodder.

Funds in the entire oil futures market are basically between 8-12 trillion U.S. dollars. There are so many predators and small and medium-sized investors lurking in it. It's impossible to say!

It is simply impossible to count such smart people all the time.

So I missed the sale this time, and basically Xiao Qi will not be able to start a bet with them next time. At most, he will seize the bottom price of more than 30 US dollars in the future and let PetroChina buy more. It is also Xiao Qi for the country. The limit of doing it.

If you have to buy low and sell high, you have to get out of high blood pressure! (To be continued)