Chapter 221: Not That Much, Just 100 Million

Chapter 221: Chapter 221: Not That Much, Just 100 Million

"I actually looked over the data for these stocks carefully last night."

"Besides, the ones I picked have been doing pretty well this month anyway," Lin Feng said lazily.

"And it’s not like every trade I make is risk-free."

Speaking of which, Lin Feng had just made one bad trade.

It had instantly evaporated over ten million in funds.

This was something Lin Feng had done on purpose, precisely to lower his three friends’ suspicions.

It was also to avoid attracting the attention of other major players in the stock market.

Sure enough, after he brought up that seemingly mistaken trade,

the other three’s suspicions gradually faded.

"True... even though Brother Feng slipped up once."

"But overall, Brother Feng still came out ahead in a market like this!"

"That’s incredible!" Yang Qiniang said with excitement.

Cao Ming, on the other hand, was more concerned with how much Lin Feng had actually made after this morning’s work.

"So, Brother Feng, what’s your rate of return right now?"

Lin Feng did a quick mental calculation.

When the United States stock market opened, Lin Feng’s principal was eight hundred million.

Now, his account held a total of eight hundred and seventy million.

’If I hadn’t intentionally tried to be less conspicuous just now,’

’my account would probably have eight hundred and eighty million.’

"Actually, my rate of return for this morning is only about eight percent."

The United States stock market was just too sluggish today.

Lin Feng’s brow furrowed.

’If the market is like this again tomorrow,’

’I’m afraid raising the money for that land plot will be difficult.’

The thought of the land plot mission weighed on him, and he didn’t feel at ease.

As a result, his expression soured.

However, when the other three saw Lin Feng’s expression, they interpreted it completely differently.

All three of them thought Lin Feng was dissatisfied with his current rate of return.

Yang Qiniang thought for a moment, then stepped forward to say, "Honestly, Brother Feng, you’re being too hard on yourself!"

"The way the United States market is right now, you could say pretty much everyone is losing money."

"Brother Feng, you’ve already earned a lot."

"Even though an eight percent rate of return might not seem like much compared to your previous investment profits,"

"it’s incredible in a market environment like this!"

Yang Qiniang nodded as he spoke.

Jiang Chao and Cao Ming felt the same way.

Besides, an eight percent rate of return was considered quite high in any stock market.

In the Celestial Dynasty’s stock market, a normal person would be doing great to get a daily return of two or three percent.

When Lin Feng snapped out of his thoughts, he heard his brothers carefully trying to console him.

For a moment, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Lin Feng had already known since yesterday what a terrible shape the United States market would be in today.

So he already had a clear idea of roughly how much he could make.

What Lin Feng was actually worried about was tomorrow’s market.

But Yang Qiniang and the others thought he was agonizing over today’s returns.

Lin Feng explained, "I’m not really worried about today."

"To be honest, with market conditions like this, this is the most anyone could possibly make!"

The other three nodded vigorously.

"Let’s see how the United States does this afternoon. I don’t know what’s been going on lately for the market to be so sluggish!" Jiang Chao said with a frown.

When the afternoon session of the United States market opened,

Lin Feng didn’t even look at the trends of other stocks, directly putting all his money into a single chip stock.

Over the next hour, that chip stock became the only one in the entire tech sector to rise.

However, it only went up by three percent at most.

An hour later, Lin Feng quickly split the funds into five parts and invested in other stocks.

This was the first time Lin Feng had split his capital for investment today.

For the remainder of the session, Lin Feng paid no more attention to those stocks.

Instead, he instructed Yang Qiniang and the other two, "In the last five minutes before the United States market closes, you have to sell all of these stocks."

Then Lin Feng turned, sat down at another desk, picked up a tablet, and started taking notes on something else.

It turned out that after the United States market opened for its afternoon session,

Lin Feng had suddenly received tomorrow’s Stock Market Trend Prediction Card from the system.

Lin Feng had given it a quick scan and immediately discovered

that the trend in tomorrow’s United States market would be completely different from today’s.

Today, everything was in the red.

But tomorrow, the entire United States market would be a sea of green.

This made Lin Feng ecstatic.

’Tomorrow is my last chance.’

He had been worried he wouldn’t be able to raise enough funds for the land plot project.

But now, after a quick glance at the prediction for tomorrow’s market trend,

Lin Feng knew with absolute certainty that his worries were unfounded.

A brief look was enough to tell him that there were quite a few stocks in tomorrow’s market poised to grow by more than ten percent.

It was just that some stocks were projected to grow faster in the morning, while others would surge in the afternoon.

That was why Lin Feng had invested all his money into those other stocks.

The five stocks he had chosen were ones that would see relatively high growth during the afternoon session.

Lin Feng needed to study tomorrow’s market trends carefully now.

He could just leave the remaining tasks for Yang Qiniang and the others to handle.

Lin Feng now had to seriously figure out how he was going to play the market tomorrow.

’If I play this right, I could rapidly multiply my current funds.’

Lin Feng had a considerable amount of capital on hand at the moment.

But he also had many projects that required massive outlays of cash.

For Lin Feng, it was a simple truth: the more money, the better.

Yang Qiniang and the others hadn’t expected Lin Feng to completely disengage for the last few hours of trading.

Although the three of them were only responsible for selling off the stocks in the final five minutes,

they were still paying very close attention to them.

They monitored the trends of these stocks for the entire duration.

Lin Feng had bought them rather casually.

He hadn’t purchased them at an ideally planned moment.

As a result, some of the stocks even dropped significantly after he bought in.

It was gut-wrenching for Yang Qiniang and his friends to watch.

Even though they knew full well you shouldn’t panic-sell when a stock is falling,

they had an overwhelming urge to pull the money out every time the prices dipped.

Those one or two short hours felt like months.

It was absolute torture.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng was off to the side, completely absorbed in his planning for tomorrow’s market trends.

When the final five minutes arrived,

and the three of them had quickly sold off all the stocks,

Lin Feng finally stretched languidly and snapped out of his trance.

"Looks like it’s over. Did you sell everything?"

Yang Qiniang nodded.

Lin Feng walked over to the computer and did a quick calculation of the day’s return rate from the account information.

This was the one thing the other three were most anxious to know.

"How much did we make? How much?"

"When we sold those stocks just now, they were all in the green!"

Jiang Chao leaned forward, his face tense with anticipation.

Lin Feng nonchalantly tallied the numbers.

"Not a huge amount. It’s basically the same as Friday’s profit—around a hundred million."

The other three exchanged glances and drew in a sharp breath.

What shocked them was that even in today’s dismal market,

Lin Feng had still managed to maintain a profit similar to his last investment round.

What a terrifying ability!

Jiang Chao had been paying close attention.

Lin Feng had dabbled in practically every stock that was in the green today.

Other than that one "mishap,"

Lin Feng hadn’t touched a single stock that was in the red all day.

That was precisely how he was able to keep his profits at such a high level.

In truth, if one calculated it carefully, earning a similar amount to Friday

meant he hadn’t earned as much in terms of percentage.

After all, his principal on Friday was only seven hundred million, whereas today it was eight hundred million.

But to be able to maintain such high profits in this harsh market environment was more than enough to prove just how capable Lin Feng was.