Tech Hammer

At seven o'clock in the morning, the deserted streets began to become lively. For countless people, this was just an ordinary Friday, the last trading day in September. Next we are approaching the first weekend of October.

For Wall Street fund managers, at least they can choose their own way to relax for a day. Of course, that was after five o'clock. After all, every trading day is like fighting a war.

Generally speaking, most Wall Street elites start their working day by studying various financial information, but everyone obtains information through different channels. Of course, most information is obtained through the universal network.

There are still people ordering traditional newspapers, but in a market where every second counts, no one will put their chips on paper media that moves as slowly as an old man. Of course, in order to adapt to the new era, almost all newspaper groups have launched the official websites of their own newspaper brands.

Among them, the most popular one on Wall Street is naturally the Wall Street Journal. This newspaper, founded in 1889, has watched the development and glory of Wall Street with a cold eye.

In the new era, although the Wall Street Journal is no longer the first source of information for many fund managers, it is still a website that everyone must visit every day.

Because as long as your competitors are still looking, others must look. In the financial market, missing any small piece of information that seems inconspicuous at the time may affect their judgment and cause huge losses.

In this way, Ning Wei appeared in front of countless financial giants as a disruptor.

A genius boy from China posted a Weibo post disclosing the concept of the DISS metaverse? Is the Wall Street Journal crazy? Is the opinion of a Chinese person worthy of being placed on the front page? Wait, this Ning Wei is the proposer of the big data super compression theory that was highly praised by many scientists at the recent World Artificial Intelligence Conference?

In fact, this news is not a big deal. It is normal for the scientific community to have disputes about various new technologies. However, this report also intercepted many well-known university professors’ negative evaluations of the concept of the metaverse. This is Very interesting.

In particular, many of the scientists who have great confidence in metaverse technology actually want to use the theory of a Chinese boy who is not optimistic about the development prospects of this technology?

Really, it is no exaggeration to say that at eight o'clock in the morning, one hour and fifteen minutes before the stock market opened for centralized bidding, countless fund managers and investors betting on the technology sector read this article several times, including Ning Wei read the Weibo post written directly in English many times. Some people even directly logged into the Huaxia website and found the original version of the research on Weibo. Someone even made a direct call to Huaxia and started asking about the situation.

As a result, China, which is still a hotly searched topic, successfully took root on Wall Street.

At half past eight, many people's phones started ringing intensively. At this time, Bernie Cushing had also rushed to his work station, waiting for the news to slowly ferment at all levels.

At 8:40, his boss Felix Hodgson personally rushed to his work station, stared at him and asked: "Bernie, don't tell me that you don't know the news on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today. Tell me , was this directed by you?"

"Oh my God, how is it possible? Mr. Hodgson, do you think I can be connected with a genius scientist far away in China? If you just spent ten minutes studying his resume, you would know that Dr. Ning Wei did not study abroad. Experience, he just attended two World Computer Conferences, one in Washington and one in Montreal, and I was in this building staring at the screen while he was at the conference.”

Bernie Cushing spread his hands and said something innocently, but then looked at Felix Hodgson with piercing eyes and said: "But one thing I am sure of is that the concept of the metaverse is too advanced, just as I told him yesterday As you reported, I graduated from MIT. I have consulted many former professors, and few are really optimistic that this concept can be completed within ten years. Unless there is a major technological breakthrough in science, some basic problems cannot be solved at all. Solve it! This is science that is not subject to anyone’s will!”

"Of course, as I said yesterday, this bubble will definitely be burst eventually, but they will wait until the situation is good before bursting the bubble with their own hands. If we wait until then, it will be too late to make plans, and we can only follow those The big companies are getting some leftovers from behind, so why can’t we personally expose this illusion? Then our profits may be infinitely magnified! You know what, Mr. Hodgson!”

Felix looked at Bernie Cushing seriously and said: "You still don't understand, Bernie, why I can survive on this street, because I have always been cautious enough. I know that in your opinion, this is cowardice." ! But do you know what this means? Not to mention that what you did is far from enough. You only have one chance. Now that they have reacted, you have no idea how much energy they can gather in one day to fight back, Uncle Ni!"

"No matter how careful you are, I bet you a hundred dollars that now the news that you have been silently shorting the stocks of these companies in large sums has been put in front of the big shots. Yes, if you want to be famous, you have done it. But I guess you must have underestimated their power. Do you think you are the only one so awake in this market? Do you know how many people will benefit from this concept? No, you know nothing!"

"For you, this time you are putting your life on the line, but for others it is just a little less money. You may think this is unfair, but this is the reality! Bernie, if you fail this time, you Have you ever thought about what the future will be like?”

Bernie Cushing calmly replied: "Yes, maybe I risk my life, but as you said, Mr. Hodgson, I must be more than one sober person. How do you know that I am the only one who will risk it?" Will you risk your life? Wall Street has never lacked risk-takers. Maybe this sword is not enough, but I have no other choice. Why don't you say that you didn't give me enough time at all? The matter has come to this, so why not let us put everything together Leave it all to the market.”

Their eyes met, and Felix finally looked at the time on the computer. It was already 8:50, and then asked: "Okay, tell me how many chips you still have."

"Three hundred million!" Bernie Cushing replied.

"I can give you another billion permissions to conquer me with your operations. Remember, you only have this chance. And you are betting not only on your future, but even on your life." Leave this sentence behind, Felix Hodgson walked away, leaving behind Bernie Cushing and his team.

"Did you hear that? Guys, we now have 1.3 billion available funds and are ready. Today is a tough battle. Whether we live or die depends on today."

This simple sentence aroused everyone's fighting spirit. Yes, things have reached this point, and it seems that the only option is to give it a try.

Finally, when the time reached 9:15, the centralized bidding for US stocks began, and the operation site suddenly became busy.

"WIMI Hologram has a new buy order of 200,000 shares at $16.7, an increase of 3.2%!"

"Roblox's latest pending order is $107.82 for 500,000 shares, an increase of 7.6%!"

“Soul’s latest pending order is 370,000 shares at $98, an increase of 6%!”

…

Bernie Cushing stared at the market with an expressionless face, and at the same time stared at the time below. One minute had passed, and these Metaverse concept stocks were still being pushed upwards, but he was not in a hurry, and decided to add one more Fire: "Roblox is priced at US$109.5, WiMi Hologram is priced at US$18, Soul is priced at US$200, and Facebook is priced at US$405.5 each with 300,000 shares."

Soon the assistants in charge of their respective stocks on the team entered the information into the system based on his speech. Soon nearly $200 million was poured into the stock market.

Of course, Bernie Cushing doesn’t really want to push up these prices. In fact, according to the rules of Wall Street, the bidding orders from 9:15 to 9:20 will not be sold immediately after they are sent out, but can be done at any time. Withdrawn. Therefore, all matching trading volumes seen at this time are basically false. So he really doesn’t mind letting all investors see the more false prosperity of Metaverse concept stocks.

At 9:18, everyone was staring at the screen in front of them, and the quotations continued until one minute and fifty seconds later, Bernie Cushing immediately ordered: "Withdraw all orders just now!"

Soon all the buy orders he had just placed were withdrawn, and Bernie Cushing believed that he was definitely not the only one to withdraw his orders at this time. Of course, there may be some who have not canceled their orders, but there is no need to continue the game before the opening. The US$1.3 billion was not enough to cover the losses caused by his bets on the skyrocketing prices of these stocks. Its only function was to expand his profits. Sweat was already dripping from the tip of his nose. Just as he told Felix, he could only leave everything to the market.

The real stock market game is actually far less thrilling than shown in the movie. The real situation is that before the plan makes trouble in the stock market, it has already been planned and spent several months or even longer on the layout. At the moment of seeing red, in fact, the most the operator can do is to wait, waiting for the market to give him an answer, whether he can defeat those giants.

Bernie Cushing stared at the screen. The time came to nine twenty-six.

"It fell. Facebook dropped two points."

"Roblox is currently up 1.2%."

"Soul rose 0.8%."

…

"An additional 500 million short buy Facebook, 300 million short buy Roblox, and 200 million short buy Soul! Immediately!" Bernie Cushing immediately made the decision, and the one billion US dollars he just received was used for the three most powerful companies in the metaverse. on a concept stock.

At this moment, he had a strong premonition that these three stocks would peak at the opening of the market today, and his fate was about to change!

…

The time difference between China and New York Daylight Saving Time is exactly twelve hours. When Wall Street opens, it is already half past nine in the night in China. For countless ordinary families, this is the time when the whole family sits in front of the sofa and watches TV. For many young people, the wonderful nightlife has just begun.

After all, the next day is National Day. Seven consecutive days of national statutory holidays are enough for people to relax. People who are planning to travel are already on their way. Of course, more people choose to stay at home for various reasons, which is also a blessing. , bars and squares in the city are surprisingly lively, and the holiday economy is beginning to show its power this night.

Of course, there are also many hardworking people who are working overtime. There is no other way. To maintain the normal operation of society, there are always some jobs that cannot be separated from people. Of course, a higher salary compared to normal days can somewhat comfort the miserable mood of working overtime.

But no matter what you are doing, in this era when mobile Internet has penetrated into every corner of people's lives, it will not greatly affect everyone's continued attention to hot events on the Internet, such as the Ningwei incident.

Yes, Ning Wei's casual move of closing the comment section angered many people even more. What do you mean? What does it mean to close the comment area on the Internet, which means that everyone's dissatisfaction is known, but there is no explanation, nor is it deleted from Weibo, and not even a single comment is deleted. What does it mean to simply close the comment area?

So does this really mean that you don’t take everyone’s anger seriously? Forget about ordinary netizens, can’t you see so many big V’s calls? Can a top student be so awesome? So as Ning Wei closed the comment function, many people on Weibo became more violent.

It was ten o'clock, the busiest time on the Internet, and the people making the most noise had not noticed a financial Weibo posted by the official Weibo of a well-known financial magazine, Jiji Finance.

"U.S. technology concept stocks encountered a black swan event, and the three major metaverse concept stocks suffered a collective plunge. Facebook, Roblox, and Soul experienced flash crashes at the opening. Among them, Facebook and Soul triggered circuit breakers due to a 10% plunge in five minutes, and Roblox After opening two points higher, it plummeted 13%. Affected by the black swan incident, Google fell by more than 7%, Intel fell by 5%, and companies in the upstream and downstream industrial chain of Yuanverse were affected to varying degrees. Among Chinese concept stocks, Alibaba led the decline by 8 %, Penguin Group fell 6%. Nearly 100 billion US dollars evaporated.”

Less than two minutes after this Weibo was posted, the second Weibo was posted immediately.

"According to exclusive news obtained by our reporter, the black swan incident that caused the sharp decline in US concept stocks is suspected to have been caused by a Weibo post by a Chinese scientist. Dr. Ning Wei from Yanbei University, who attended the STOC conference at 10 o'clock this morning, was among the A statement on Weibo that was not optimistic about the concept of the metaverse quickly aroused heated discussion. At 7:38 New York time, this Weibo post was quoted on the homepage of the Wall Street Journal’s official website. It was confirmed by experts that Google Labs was included in the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The proposer of the big data high compression theory mentioned by many scientists, including scientist Hoyt, is Ning Wei, and this theory is currently widely considered by the scientific community to be applicable to the infrastructure of the metaverse."

The second Weibo also directly showed a clip of a Google Lab scientist speaking at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and mentioning Ning Wei's theory.

Soon, these two Weibo posts began to be reposted by countless big names in the financial circle. After all, this is such a big event!