High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 629: Chapter 269: Li Yang’s Secret Trump Card (3)

Every year when Apple makes money, the first thing it does is buy back its own stock and then cancel it.

After cancellation, they start driving up the company’s stock price. When the stock price rises to a certain level, they split each share into four or five shares.

The company’s big boss, who originally held one million shares of Apple Inc., sells off four million shares after the split, once the stock price goes up, and still retains one million shares.

This way, they’ve completed the arbitrage.

Others have no arbitrage opportunity, because they don’t know what Apple Inc. will do; only the core personnel know.

They must have measured the entire market’s funding situation before making their decision.

They will certainly ensure they earn more profits, otherwise they would wait.

From time to time, they sensationalize a black swan event, creating a sense of panic...

The power to decide life and death is in their hands, and those who make money are just lucky, not because of any real strength.

Even those who have held their positions for over a decade without moving them might have made several times their investments, but when will they cash out?

Profits that aren’t cashed in don’t count!

Who dares say the next black swan won’t cause a 90% plunge in Apple Inc.’s stock price?

The less they cash out, the better it is for those capital tycoons. They quietly support the market from below, waiting until Apple Inc.’s shell is completely drained of nutrients before discarding it.

It’s just that they haven’t found a more suitable financial anchor, and given the constant expansion of the US Dollar, the demand for financial anchors is high. Otherwise, such exaggerated data wouldn’t exist.

The most typical example is Tesla.

In the coming years, its market value once broke through $1.3 trillion.

Due to various reasons, capital no longer regards Tesla as a financial anchor. As its performance remained almost unchanged and even became increasingly hyped, its market value fell to $500 billion.

On the surface, Tesla’s performance compared to before has fallen by 20%, but how much is that really worth?

Couldn’t the Wall Street bosses even cover that performance gap? Spending tens of billions on their products or simply signing some short contracts to force tens of billions into Tesla’s performance won’t work?

After all, just by investing tens of billions, they can get a wealth increase in the hundreds of billions.

It’s just that some people don’t want to play with him anymore.

Legally and compliantly increasing performance is Wall Street’s forte, even the "zero dollar buys" are a method for Apple Inc. to increase its performance.

They insure every device, so if it’s stolen, it’s as if it was sold, and they make more money than from selling it.

Theoretically, in the eyes of profit-driven people, who would be so kind as to provide such high insurance for an electronic product?

The stock market is Wall Street’s wealth amplifier. If they find ways to increase a company’s profit by a few hundred million dollars, that company’s market value can increase by several billion or tens of billions of dollars.

Under extreme control, they can easily make back the money they’ve spent, multiplied by several times over.

The reason Li Yang is keen to seize the Bitcoin trading platform’s share is because... this is something Wall Street cannot control.

Though Bitcoin is traded in US Dollars, it’s not actually US domestic dollars, but rather the money floating outside the United States.

As a global currency, it’s challenging enough to regulate the US Dollar; there are countless channels and the loopholes are tacitly permitted.

If every loophole were closed, who would still trust the US Dollar?

If restricted so much, who would dare to regard the US Dollar as the core currency reserve?

There are gains and losses; since the US Dollar became the global currency leader, it has to maintain enough freedom, and freedom... cannot be regulated.

Bitcoin trading platforms, even if Li Yang doesn’t do it, others will. The goal is simple, to undermine the US Dollar’s foundation!

It’s better for him to do it than for someone else.

Someone made tens of billions of dollars, but a few words scared them into vomiting out tens of billions, and even ended up in prison, serving a two-year and twelve-month sentence.

It seems likely that after serving the sentence, the little money left in their pocket would all be drained.

As for Li Yang...

Who knows how much he made?

Even Li Xiao doesn’t know which contracts are his.

Only Chen Peipei knows, and he just needs to find an opportunity to silence Chen Peipei.

Silencing a woman is certainly easier than a man; Li Yang is a normal person and can’t accept that method.

...

At this moment, He Lewei is reviewing Li Yang’s thesis.

The defense is tomorrow.

After a brief look, He Lewei said, "This thesis is convincing only when you write it. If we wrote it, we’d immediately get labeled as pretentious. The professor wouldn’t pass it!"

Li Yang’s thesis is an elucidation of the core of marketing, with many revolutionary ideas.

Especially compared to the current textbooks.

Much of it is whimsical and fanciful, with no cases to refer to.

Such a paper, if written by someone else, the professor wouldn’t even bother to read.

"There’s nothing I can do, who told me to be able to create cases!"

He Lewei scooted over and asked, "Did you give Fu Wenjie and Shao Zuoping directions?"

"Yes."

"Damn, why didn’t you say so earlier? Those two are living a great life now."

"Even if I gave it to you, you wouldn’t want it!"

Li Yang knew very well that He Lewei didn’t think much of such things.

Fu Wenjie and Shao Zuoping were two classmates who previously worked in automotive marketing. Li Yang’s advice to them was to switch perspectives.

The highest form of marketing often doesn’t look like marketing.

The two registered accounts on Kuai Pai, Douyin, and Kuaishou. One ID is called "Shaking Light Car Owner Xiao Fu," and the other "Shaking Light Car Owner Pingping."

With over half a year’s efforts, they now combined have over 500,000 followers on several major platforms.

Taking a car owner’s stance, they’ve subtly marketed the Shaking Light car.

They’ve helped Extreme Shadow Cars sell over a hundred Shaking Lights, a feat even the best sales personnel couldn’t achieve.

Moreover, there is a secret trick Li Yang hasn’t taught them yet.