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Chapter 498 - 328 Make a Wish

Chapter 498: Chapter 328 Make a Wish

"Traffic password... it actually means this!"

After spending the day with Xiao Yu and others, just as Meng Lang had returned home from the market, he saw that live streaming video.

Then he discovered that Duan Xiaoxian had just debuted and had already hit the trending searches...

Stepping over a top-tier celebrity to rise to fame, Duan Xiaoxian’s debut performance was unrivaled; it would be difficult for him not to become popular.

So, the traffic password that my brother talked about... is it actually... riding the wave of popularity?

Well...

With my ability to see through the future for an extended period, which entertainment scoop could I not latch onto?

This really is the traffic password, and it’s even the kind that can be used over and over, a "master key"!

Just think, if Duan Xian could keep stepping on the hottest topics... wouldn’t his exposure shoot up like a rocket?

It’s proven that a prophet doesn’t need to spend money to buy traffic...

It’s just that, doing it once or twice is fine.

You’re not the king of timing, so why should you be able to predict precisely every time?

A prophet that exposes his identity can easily get "eliminated by the werewolf."

And... this time the traffic has been leached, but the side effects for Duan Xian might not be small...

The offended celebrity is just one thing, probably going to cool off after today.

What’s worrisome is the talent agency and capital groups behind them, whose carefully promoted popular idol has been knocked down without warning—who would feel comfortable with that?

That’s just a smaller concern. The bigger trouble lies with Yan Dian, the entertainment industry’s stronghold.

This time, Duan Xian had blown the lid off a certain industry’s unspoken rules, offending what’s likely a large community of shared interests.

Although it’s almost impossible for others to see that today’s incident was a trap Duan Xian deliberately set for someone under my instruction.

But if someone is petty, it’s possible that the disaster could spread, tripping up Duan Xiaoxian on his path to stardom...

"Really, can’t we just leach something normal and relatively safe like ’What is the relationship between Zhang Baizhi and Li Yapeng’ for traffic?

If Duan Xian gets caught in a sack this time, won’t I have to carry the blame?

However, with a vision more than twenty years ahead, it seems unlikely that I would leach hot topics just for the sake of leaching them; this choice of topic should not be too rash..."

Meng Lang scrolled through Weibo comments, suddenly realizing that besides the many people who followed entertainment Eight Diagrams for fun, the majority was actually made up of graduates...

Piecing it together with the Spider Web and academic integrity issues that were instantly pushed into the spotlight...

Could it be... that I am trying to reform academia?

Indeed... with the current university atmosphere in Country Hua being strict in admissions but lax in graduation, and plagiarism rampant, it’s very detrimental to the advancement of overall technological development and innovation.

What is technology?

It’s the wings that allow me to soar!

Although it’s bad news for the juniors about to graduate, if we take a long-term perspective,

and measure it against the technological development of the next few decades, or even a century, a cap that can force an increase in the quality of research papers is naturally better off lifted sooner than later.

The saying goes: "It takes ten years to nurture trees, but a hundred years to train people."

Education, a pull of one hair affects the whole body, an element that has minimal short-term effects, but profound and far-reaching long-term impacts, even enough to change the entire course of human history...

Well! Thinking like this, my vision suddenly broadens.

My brother, surely cannot be that superficial.

Even leaching the traffic is done with such concern for the country and its people!

[Ding! Master, the basic version of "Multi-Factor Mixed Investment Strategy" V1.0 has completed market simulation trading tests. The simulated annualized return rate can reach up to 1269%. Would you like to start using it immediately?]

Just as Meng Lang was pondering his brother’s profound and far-reaching plans, Zero suddenly sent him a message.

At the news, Meng Lang remembered that about a week ago, he had instructed Zero to develop a quantitative trading software.

Considering the time, the software’s simulation test should be close to an end.

"1269%? That’s about a twelvefold return in a year... that’s ridiculously exaggerated..."

Meng Lang was inwardly astonished.

Why do almost all developed countries in the world tend to evolve from industrial capitalism to financial capitalism?

The charm of the virtual economy lies in the significant growth of wealth digits it allows one to achieve easily and quickly, without breaking a sweat...

Just by moving their fingers, people can reap wealth; who would still willingly toil and dig for food in the fields?

The so-called quantitative trading may sound grandiose, but it’s not mysterious at all.

It refers to the use of computer programs to replace humans in implementing investment strategies!

In other words, now to harvest wealth, you don’t even need to move your fingers...

Many may think it’s just a niche investment approach, but in fact, quantitative trading has become an unstoppable trend in developed countries.

Quantitative trading numbers in institutions in Europe and America have even reached around 70%!

Even in an emerging country like Country Hua, quantitative trading has been growing like bamboo shoots after a spring rain and expanding continuously.

Up to now, the domestic quantitative trading industry has broken through a trillion, with about 20% of share in stock market transactions, and the vast majority of institutions are engaged in quantitative trading!

By nature, quantitative trading is about using short-term, high-frequency operations to gain substantial profit from spreads.

As a zero-sum game, the essence of the capital market is to benefit from the countless stock investors, harvesting retail investors massively.

Yes, quantitative trading is unfair to retail investors; the more scattered you are, the more miserably you’ll be harvested.

This is also one of the reasons why there are more and more wealthy people today, the stock market is growing larger, and it’s becoming harder for the average stock investor to make money.

Previously, institutions used traders to reap profits from investors; now, they use intelligent program codes to do it more efficiently, more silently...

You think your opponent is still a group of flesh-and-blood investors? No! Sir, the times have changed!

Technology has changed the rules of the game.

When you think you’re still in PVP, you’re actually long into PVE...

And when you think it’s PVE, the world might have already advanced to EVE...

In the future capital market, the opponent of quantitative trading will only be another quantitative trading!

Ordinary people think they’ve won after defeating Junior, Advanced, Expert Level, even Hell Level robots?

Sorry! Programmers will tell you that the difficulty of robots has no limit.

The only opponents for robots are robots!

And ordinary humans can only be tortured to death, cursing in their hearts "sheep got sheeped"...

Maybe some are not convinced and stubbornly believe in triumphing over Nature?

Have you noticed that in the investment market, those "investment masters" who manage to make money tend to possess certain traits that ordinary people don’t have?

That is... rationality! Very rational! Extremely rational!

These people are clear-headed with few desires, stern, and not talkative.

They don’t lose their reason with sudden market rises, nor do they collapse mentally with sudden market falls.

They themselves are void of investment emotions and even use data to analyze market sentiments!

To summarize their investment mindset in one sentence, it would probably be... "Money doesn’t matter; what’s important is the fun."

Perhaps only the figures of wealth can give them a thrill...

And the highest praise for an investment master isn’t that his assets have multiplied several times this year, but...

This person is an emotionless money-making machine...

So from a certain perspective.

The end point for a human investment master... is just the starting point for a robot...

"Contact Gao Yuan right away; put it to use immediately. Whatever idle funds we have on the books, invest it all!"

After all, it’s foreign markets he’s playing in, different from the swarms of domestic retail investors; over 70% of investors abroad are institutions.

Robot against robot, it’s all about skill in making money, and Meng Lang doesn’t feel any psychological burden whatsoever.

While yearly returns of tenfold or more might be too exaggerated and draw the attention of major capital players, doubling assets every year isn’t too much, right?

He blissfully began to fantasize about a future of "planting money and harvesting money," where he would never have to worry about money again...

Labor Day has arrived, and it is the season of harvest.

So, I’d like to make a wish.

I hope my RMB can fall in love, and then produce many little RMBs...