Chapter 239 (1/2)

Melbourne.

These days, Anthony Johnston deliberately put down 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 the funds from Australia also came to the account one after another. The final capital scale reached US $1.570 billion. Among them, Simon's capital is US $500 million, Johnston's is US $100 million, and other capital forces in Australia are US $970 million.

In fact, there are also many people in North America who want to invest in the market recently, but Simon refuses this time.

More than US $1.5 billion is already a big goal. Leading Australian capital into the market, Simon believes that the Johnston family will certainly be able to turn this friendship into real contacts and interests.

In North America, although Simon has an American identity, he has little connection with local forces, and it is impossible to build a deep friendship with each other just by making a lot of money.

In fact, Simon has unconsciously come up with the idea of building the Australian Gang into his own backing. Of course, the Australian Gang here is definitely not the Australian filmmakers in Hollywood, but the local capital forces in Australia.

The pattern of plutocrats in the United States has been shaped for many years. Simon, a new capital tycoon, can't compete with the old plutocrats after all, and he doesn't have any idea of which side to attach to.

Therefore, Simon must have more chips to ensure that his industry can continue to expand.

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

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

Simon gathers Australian capital forces together through interest connections, forming a chaebol force no less than any of the old American consortia. Moreover, as long as it operates properly, Simon can even gain the dominant position of Australian capital forces.

Now that it's going to be formal, Simon has officially registered a hedge fund in the Caymans.

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 China, they do not need to pay high capital gains tax, and fund holders can repeatedly use the funds that should be used as taxes for capital operation.

Although it does not intend to operate for a long time, the fund always needs a name.

Simon once again sacrificed game of power, naming the hedge fund cersei capital, code named ”bad woman.”. Moreover, like Denise entertainment and melisandro, cersei capital also takes westero as its holding parent company.

Simon has set up five sub funds controlled by cersei capital, and the capital scale of each sub fund is about $300 million.

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

As of the last trading day of the week on February 17, five sub funds controlled by cersei capital have established Nikkei 225 index futures long contracts with a total value of about US $7 billion in Singapore and Osaka respectively.

Simon is very clear about his advantages. What he can judge more accurately is the macro trend of Japan's economy.

The average positions of these stock index futures contracts are between 32200 and 32700 points.

If cersei capital can maintain a bull size of about $7 billion in the next few months, and the Nikkei 225 index reaches 37000 points in Simon's plan to leave the market, only this investment will bring in $1 billion in profits.

Long contracts with a total value of US $7 billion only use less than half of cersei's capital in terms of margin. The volume of Nikkei 225 index futures is limited after all. Although Singapore and Osaka still do not have strict position restrictions at this time, Simon can not increase his position without restrictions because of the lack of takers.

With the remaining funds, Simon began to let the trading teams of the five sub funds operate freely. Japan's stock, bond futures, stock index options and even several other capital markets in Asia are the hunting targets of cersei capital.

Just at the end of this week, cersei capital's trading team successfully completed a beautiful Japanese government 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 increase policy as soon as possible to curb excessive speculation in the market.

Usually, the result of interest rate increase will lead to the decline of the price of government bonds. If hedge funds wait for the opportunity to short, they can get rich returns.

But Simon remembers that in the original time and space, the Bank of Japan did not announce its first interest rate increase in several years until May. At that time, Japan's stock and property markets had already missed the best time to prevent market collapse through tightening policies.

Even if history has changed, Simon doesn't think the Japanese government will raise interest rates three months in advance.The news of speculation caused a market shock. All sectors of Japan, which have been immersed in the illusion of Japan's economic prosperity, do not want to break this situation as a last resort.

According to this judgment, cersei capital's trading team started to set up a total of US $6 billion Japanese government bond futures positions since last week, half of which are long and half short.

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

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

Then, on Thursday morning, a spokesman for Japan's Ministry of Finance publicly clarified that the BoJ had no intention to introduce an interest rate increase plan in the near future.

Japanese bond futures rose in response.

Simon was not greedy, and asked the sub fund trading teams to level off all long positions before Friday.

The volatility of government bond futures is usually small, which is why investment leverage can exceed 30 times. However, this week, cersei capital still made 36 million dollars.

In fact, some inside information was used in this operation, otherwise cersei capital would not be able to close short positions before Thursday.

Japan's rapid economic growth in recent years, especially the development of the real estate industry, has led to a substantial increase in the 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 have been very close over the years, as have all walks of life in politics and business. The johnstons have a large-scale subsidiary in Japan, which is managed by Norman Johnston, Janet's second brother.

Japan's Ministry of finance will issue a clarification on Thursday from Norman Johnston, who was on a business trip in Tokyo recently.