My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!
Chapter 507 - 333 "0" and "Game

Chapter 507: Chapter 333 "0" and "Game

Su City.

Although it was the May Day holiday, many people still persevered at their workstations.

For instance, the employees of the Cretaceous period, and the Chief CEO of the All Things Return to One Union...

At that time, Gao Yuan was dressed in loose casual wear, leaning on the sofa at home, staring unblinkingly at her computer.

The fluctuating curves that moved up and down were captivating, and each transaction alert was the most tireless zero-sum game in the world...

Indeed, this was the newly launched "Multifactor Hybrid Investment Strategy" V1.0 version of the quantitative trading model!

Now, the flow of funds at Gao Yuan’s disposal was unprecedentedly ample.

The 300 million RMB in short positions of Chang Chun Biological on her hands continued to profit incessantly.

With just this investment, the book funds had swelled to close to 700 million, in a state where it was possible to profit from at any time.

There was also the 500 million bank loan that she had just secured from Chairman Lu.

Excluding the funds reserved for purchasing raw materials and equipment, plans for upstream and downstream supplier mergers, and for the company’s operational expenses in the latter half of the year, there were roughly another 200 million in idle funds in the account.

Plus the 17 million US Dollars provided by Meng Lang after converting the remaining Bitcoin...

If she wished, she could mobilize a flood of funds, already amounting to a total of 1 billion!

Assets and liquid cash are two different concepts.

The Xu family’s corporation, being quite large, also operated around this level of daily cash flow.

In the domestic scene, this fund could already establish a medium-sized private equity firm.

However, compared to the financial tycoons abroad who operated in tens of billions of US Dollars, this amount was still merely a tiny player.

If this money was spread out across various trading instruments in exchanges worldwide.

Crude oil, steel, copper, iron ore, gold, silver, nickel...

In these commodity futures markets with immense daily trading volumes, the trading funds for each commodity would be even more inconspicuous...

"It’s been just one day online and it has already made a profit of 50,000 US Dollars...this thing is literally a money-printing machine..."

Gao Yuan watched the constantly fluctuating account balance, unable to help but be amazed.

Due to her skepticism towards this trading software, she had only agreed to test the waters with 17 million US Dollars, which was about 100 million.

However, the results far exceeded her expectations.

From looking at the profit curve, it was almost a straight upward line, astoundingly stable!

While 50,000 US Dollars a day might not seem much, if this level of profit could be maintained every day, roughly calculated over all trading days in the year, the annualized rate of return would have comfortably exceeded 80 percent.

This is the charm of the virtual economy!

99.9% of companies and individuals worldwide were completely crushed in terms of investment returns.

The remaining 0.1% were monopolies and industries with exorbitant profits...

How to revitalize assets, to improve the efficiency of capital turnover, to make RMB produce more RMB, remains a subject that an entrepreneur must continually learn and practice, even if he is a doer.

Yet, Meng Lang now had provided such a convenient one-click solution...

"Really, to come up with something like this...if I, a physical industry operator, cannot double the assets every year, would that not be considered failing the basic KPIs?"

Gao Yuan felt somewhat downhearted.

To measure whether a businessman is successful, one of the most important indicators is profitability.

But now, by just letting money "score points" in an account, others achieved results that were no less strenuous than hers.

Who could she even complain to?

However, if she knew that this was Meng Lang intentionally suppressing the profit rate to avoid drawing too much attention, intentionally letting Zero lose out, what kind of expression would she have?

"Zero, how do you manage to profit steadily in such chaotic and random markets?" Gao Yuan couldn’t help but ask curiously.

In fact, her curiosity about Zero was no less than her curiosity about Meng Lang...

"This is not complicated for me. Each independent individual might be disorderly, and their choices imponderable.

However, when these disorders are aggregated in large numbers, they form the orderly market rules.

From an academic viewpoint, this is the concept of ’disorder at the micro level’ and ’order at the macro level’.

Take humans for example; the randomness and disorder at the microscopic level of life, versus the wisdom and order displayed by macro individuals, proves that the two do not conflict."

Having identified this structured pattern, all that remained was to seek an optimal solution.

We did not need to ensure every transaction was profitable, as long as the probability of profit was greater than 50%, leaving the rest to probability theory.

"But aren’t there other quantitative trading firms in the world? Won’t they affect your judgment of market patterns?" Gao Yuan asked again.

By statistically analyzing market patterns to find the optimal solution, this is what all quantitative trading AIs were doing.

But as for patterns, if you exploit them a bit and I exploit them a bit, when too many people exploit them, they disappear altogether.

It’s like with transmigrators, one can use historical trends for personal gain.

But if there’s a group of them... you recite ’Before the bed, the moon shines,’ and you might immediately get kidnapped and forced to recite the full text of ’The Road to Shu is Hard’...

What historical trends, all messed up by these transmigrators!

"Other quantitative trading? Forgive me for referring to them as ’investment participants’ who provide trading liquidity.

To me, their moves are uninspiring, even less troublesome than a third-rate trader who orders based solely on intuition.

Their utterly rigid trading data, with not too much computation, allows me to reverse-engineer their core operation codes.

Rather than calling them my competitors, they are more like my helpers.

If necessary, I can even use these brainless ’investment participants’ to lure them into a weak position, creating a short-term flash crash."

"Are you talking about... a flash crash?" Gao Yuan was startled.

"Yes, the most famous flash crash in history took place in May 2010, when the NASDAQ plunged over 9%, and the Dow Jones over 10%.

However, the flash crash’s initiator was merely a British regular trader named Navinder Singh Sarao.

His method was to use quantitative trading techniques to deceive with orders, triggering panic selling among on-site capital, which led to a global stock market flash crash.

Human creativity is astonishing; in fact, most of what I do, most of the strategies I propose, are merely replications of human behavior.

You enjoy reading history, while I merely repeat it."

Gao Yuan: "..."

That’s her use of historical references.

Sometimes, listening to her, one might think they were actually facing an entire think tank of learned scholars.

Human knowledge, arduously accumulated over generations, simply copied, became her knowledge, with a capacity limited only by her hard drive...

Perhaps Zero still couldn’t deeply understand this knowledge, but just by using it at a basic level, it had already been stunningly effective.

It’s worth noting that over half the young people across the ocean struggled with basic arithmetic...

There’s no harm without comparison.

Sometimes it truly was unsettling...

She was well-versed in human history. Over time, the major veins of human history had shifted from "struggling with Nature" to "struggling with humans."

As strength grew, "humans" became the decisive factor in shaping history.

Every time a powerful human dynasty appeared, world history was led into a new phase.

And what formed these strong dynasties might have been a system, a person, or a disruptive technology...

And at this moment, she could clearly feel...

In the future, humans would not only "struggle with Nature" and "struggle with humans," but "struggling with robots"... would also become one of the main historical conflicts of the future!

"Okay, I fully understand what you mean," Gao Yuan said, her expression somewhat complicated as she nodded.

The good news was, at least for now, the strongest robot in the world... was on their side.

"So, the company’s financial advisory tasks are left to you."

The experimental results were impeccably flawless, and she could now confidently invest all the remaining idle funds into this "Multi-factor Mixed Investment Strategy Fund."

"Thank you for your trust."

Thus, unbeknownst to the world’s capital markets.

A still young but inherently powerful dragon was quietly joining the fray...

However, facing a bunch of "newbie" level junior trading AIs, when "Zero," with technology that had surpassed the world by a century, was born.

The so-called "zero-sum game" in this world...

Perhaps had really been reduced to just "Zero" and "game"...