I can get rich by brushing my emotions

Chapter 246 Meta's Stock Price Plunges
Except for the fat-reducing spirit and the live broadcast of goods.

As October 10 approached, Yuan Ze's thoughts gradually shifted to the US stock market.

On the morning of October 10th, as soon as Yuan Ze arrived at the company, Qiao Shuang approached him with a tablet computer, ecstatically, and said excitedly:

"Mr. Yuan, Mr. Yuan, look quickly, just this morning, Meta announced its financial report for the third quarter of 2022.

During the reporting period, Meta’s revenue fell 4% to $277.14 billion, the second consecutive quarter of year-on-year revenue decline.

In the third quarter, Meta's net profit was US$43.94 billion, a sharp drop of 52% year-on-year, and fell for four consecutive quarters. Earnings per share were US$1.64, a year-on-year decrease of 49%, which was lower than analysts' expectations of US$1.98.

In the past ten years, Meta has never seen a fourth consecutive quarter of net profit decline, and this is the first time! "

Seeing how excited the secretary looked, Yuan Ze put his arms around her slender waist and sat on the chair, letting her continue talking.

Qiao Shuang blushed, and continued: "In addition to the revenue and profit issues, Meta's specific data are also unsatisfactory.

In terms of users, Meta’s daily active users are 19.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of only 2.6%, which is very weak; monthly active users are 29.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of only 1.7%.

Insufficient user activity directly affects Meta's advertising revenue, and advertising revenue is Meta's main source of income, accounting for more than 98% of total revenue, which leads to an 18% drop in the average price of Meta's single advertisement . "

Since Yuan Ze had arranged to short Meta before, and Qiao Shuang was in charge of the operation, the current position has already been sold out.

Seeing that Meta's data in the third quarter are all going down, Qiao Shuang is elated, and the more she talks, the more excited she is:

"In addition, the metaverse that Zuckerberg valued is even more deeply in the quagmire of losses. Among them, Reality Labs, the core project of metaverse of Meta, had a revenue of 2.85 million US dollars in the third quarter, a year-on-year decrease of 49%, and the market expected 4 million US dollars.

Operating loss was US$36.7 billion, compared with a loss of US$26.3 billion in the same period last year and an expected loss of US$30.9 billion.

Anyway, in the first three quarters of this year, the department has lost US$94 billion. Last year, it lost more than US$100 billion. In less than two years, it has accumulated losses of nearly US$200 billion. "

Qiao Shuang said: "In addition to the above, Horizon Worlds, a virtual social platform launched by Mate for consumers, has also failed to meet expectations. The number of monthly active users is less than 20. The original goal was 50, and now even half of the goal has not been achieved. .

Most of the Horizon Worlds content is uninterested, and only 9% of the content has been visited by more than 50 people. The data is very bleak.

VR equipment is currently the most critical equipment in the metaverse, but it seems that the utilization rate of VR equipment is not high now. "

In Horizon Worlds, users can access it through Meta's VR head-mounted display device Quest to interact with virtual avatars.

However, according to the September Steam survey report, among VR hardware devices, the number of Quest users has dropped significantly.

Among them, Quest 2 accounted for 41.39%, a month-on-month decrease of 7.89%, and Quest generation users accounted for 2.58%, a month-on-month decrease of 0.59%.

More than half of users never use a Quest device six months after purchasing it.

Qiao Shuang said: "Oh, by the way, in October, Meta also released a new virtual reality (VR) headset Meta Quest Pro, priced at $10.

Although it is not yet known how its sales will be, it may be a big question mark whether the thousand-dollar headset can be accepted by consumers.

Well, these are the current data and questions about Meta. "

Yuan Ze nodded slightly, and sighed: "The Metaverse, no accident, must be the pinnacle of the next-generation Internet, or even a new form of the Internet, but if you want to come up with something that can be truly accepted by the market, It's not that easy..."

Yuan Ze does not deny the future commercial status of the Metaverse.

But at present, it seems that Meta's transition to the metaverse in the past two years has failed.

As for whether there will be a new turning point in the future, we can only wait and see.

Qiao Shuang said with a smile: "No matter what, Meta's third-quarter report data came out this time, it can be said to be much lower than the market's expectations, and all the data are extremely different.

After the U.S. stock market opens tonight, you can enjoy the big dive of Meta's stock price!
Mr. Yuan, tell me, what will be the opening price tonight? "

Yuan Ze said, "Under $100."

Qiao Shuang blinked and said, "Should it be opened directly below 100 dollars? Yesterday Meta's closing price was 129.8 dollars. If it is opened below 100 dollars, it will be a big dive of more than 20 centimeters."

"Why, do you have a different opinion?"

"Yes, I think the opening price should still be stable above 100 US dollars, and lure a wave of people to come in to buy the bottom, and then continue to break through 100 US dollars!"

"You're wrong, it won't happen."

"I think so. Otherwise, Mr. Yuan, let's make a bet."

"Bet? What do you want to bet?" Yuan Ze smiled.

"Just bet I think it will be more than $100." Qiao Shuang raised her eyebrows and said, "If I win, you promise me a small request. If I lose, I will take the initiative to help you find a beautiful woman." How about your life secretary?"

"You're also jealous, and you're willing to help me recruit a life secretary, aren't you jealous?" Yuan Ze laughed.

Qiao Shuang's role was more like Yuan Ze's administrative assistant than his life secretary.

Qiao Shuang smiled and said, "Don't worry if you're jealous or not, just tell me, my big boss, if you want to make this bet with me!"

Yuan Ze chuckled lightly: "Go ahead, you're bound to lose anyway."

Qiao Shuang raised her head and said, "That's not necessarily true. Although you are a great master, I don't believe you can be right every time when it comes to such subtle judgments!"

Seeing her high-spirited appearance, Yuan Ze burst out laughing.

So, at 09:30 in the evening, when the U.S. stock market officially opened, when Meta's stock price opened at $97.97, Qiao Shuang slumped her pretty face and said angrily:
"What, these people are crazy, they are all running around, and they ran away with 22 billion US dollars just after the opening..."

"It's probably a liquidation." Yuan Ze said with a smile.

"I know..." Qiao Shuang turned her head and glanced at him, her eyes flashed with complex and worshipful light: "My God, you are right again."

"Hahaha, I won the bet during the day, right?"

"you win."

"Okay, don't forget to honor your promise." Yuan Ze raised his eyebrows.

"I know, I know, isn't it just a beautiful life secretary, I will definitely find you someone with a good figure and good looks, and I won't let you down."

Qiao Shuang curled her lips, then adjusted her mood, looked at the board and said, "Hey, Meta's stock price has dropped by $100 now, are we going to start closing positions now?"

"Don't worry about it this week, wait until next week when it reaches a range below $95."

After talking about the US stock for a while, Yuan Ze turned around and asked, "By the way, have you opened a position in the Hong Kong stock I mentioned a few days ago?"

Yuan Ze didn't break his promise when he said before that he would make Qiao Shuang rich. The last foreign exchange market brought her a profit of 500 million.

This time, even though she was not allowed to trade in US stocks, it gave her a clear signal to grasp the third wave of the Xindongfang Online market.

"Hong Kong stocks? Is Xindongfang Online?" Qiao Shuang blinked her beautiful eyes, and said with a smile, "I have already built a position as you said, with a deposit of 500 million, four times the leverage, and a full position."

"Four times leverage, well, that's a 2000 million position."

"Then how much do you think I can earn this time?" Qiao Shuang asked expectantly.

"How much do you cost?"

"The cost price is about 25 yuan."

"Then you can send it this time." With a thought in his mind, Yuan Ze clicked on the trend chart of Xindongfang Online, looked at it, and said with a smile: "If there is no accident, before the end of the year, this opening position will bring you at least 2000 yuan. million in net income."

"Net income! 2000 million! Or at least, really?"

"Of course, 2500 million or even 3000 million is possible with good luck." Yuan Ze said: "However, let's put your investment aside for now, and I will notify you in advance when it can be sold later. .”

"Yeah, I know!" Qiao Shuang was overjoyed, smiling all over her face.

Although compared with Yuan Ze's income of hundreds of millions of dollars, her little income is not worth mentioning.

However, in what class, how much cake to take.

Qiao Shuang was quite satisfied to learn from Yuan Ze that by the end of the year, at least tens of millions of net income could be obtained.

Moreover, having been with Yuan Ze for a while, she has roughly figured out his ways, and knows in her heart that he is a person who remembers his feelings.

Therefore, in her opinion, as long as she firmly hugs Yuan Ze's thigh and does her job well, there will be absolutely no shortage of opportunities to make a fortune with him in the future.

As a result, while joking and chatting with Yuan Ze, she also made up her mind that she must do a good job of recruiting a life secretary next, so that this guy is satisfied.

In the evening, return to the third building of Greenland Washington.

After dinner, Yuan Ze put his arms around Ou Lin with his left arm and Tang Guo with his right hand, eating the bright red grapes handed over by Su Yinuo in his mouth, enjoying the corrupt life of a cheater.

When they first got together, Tang Guo was still very shy and couldn't accept Yuan Ze's hugs on the spot.

But after a long time, she could only stare at him helplessly, and didn't even bother to complain.

The point is, when Yuan Ze told the three of them that there was an opportunity to make a fortune in stocks and asked them if they were interested, it was Tang Guo who was the most excited, holding his arm shaking constantly, and coquettishly urging:

"Please, come on, baby, husband, dad..."

Yuan Ze teased her for a while, and then he didn't continue to whet his appetite, and briefly explained to the three of them the third wave of opening positions on Xindongfang Online.

Since the volume of the third wave of Xindongfang Online is weaker than the previous two, there is no liquidity to eat big meat, and the current big funds are all in the US stock market.

Therefore, Yuan Ze does not intend to participate in the market of Xindongfang Online this time.

Just leave this little meat to the canaries.

His current gaze is mainly focused on shorting and longing of Meta.

The two operations, once done well, will bring him tens of billions of RMB in return.

In comparison, the market in the Hong Kong stock market can only be regarded as a trivial matter, and he has not paid attention to it.

……

noon the next day.

Yuan Ze, who had just left the company, suddenly received a call from Kang Lei.

Since the end of the last short-selling GBP/USD cooperation, Kang Lei and Hu Xu have been looking for opportunities to invite Yuan Ze out for dinner, and plan to send him some gifts to express their affection.

Yuan Ze had already told them that there was no need to do this, but they were obsessed with this way and turned a deaf ear to his words.

Helpless, in view of the sincerity of the two of them, Yuan Ze did not refuse the kindness, so he went to the Huangting Hotel to have a meal in the evening and accepted the gift from them.

Almost the same as before, Kang Lei and Hu Xu gave gifts this time.

In addition to the beautiful and obedient girls who are divorced and pay less, in-service teachers, company white-collar workers, school beauties and debtors, there are also a group of luxury cars.

Not long ago, because of the task of collecting luxury cars, Yuan Ze asked Fang Yuebin to buy a batch of luxury cars, which was known to Hu Xu and Kang Lei.

And the two of them had given Yuan Ze a few luxury cars and a garage before, and Yuan Ze readily accepted them at that time.

Therefore, the two of them logically thought that Yuan Ze had a hobby of collecting luxury cars, and this time they followed suit and brought back a total of 35 luxury cars as gifts for him.

Among them, there are 6 luxury cars worth tens of millions, including a Ferrari Rafa, a Hongqi S9, a Bugatti Chiron, a Koenigsegg Jesko, an Aston Martin Valhalla, and a Les Royce Phantom. car.

The remaining 29 luxury cars are all mainstream supercars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren and Aston Martin.

其中法拉利F8、法拉利488、法拉利812和法拉利SF90四种车型，加起来共有12辆。

Lamborghini mainly focuses on Lamborghini's contemporary Maverick Huracán and SUVs such as Lamborghini Urus, with a total of 8 vehicles.

For McLaren, there are only 650 models of the McLaren 5S.

Aston Martin, like McLaren, has only one model, the Aston Martin DBS, with a total of 4 vehicles.

If it were placed a few years ago, when the economy was just right and global cooperation was at its peak, the landing price of these 35 cars would be worth at least 3 million yuan.

Of course, most of these cars are imported cars, and the cost of various taxes accounts for more than half.

But now, with the economic downturn and sluggish consumption, many people feel that buying a luxury car is not a good investment, and their interest in luxury cars has dropped sharply.

In addition, new energy vehicles are rising rapidly. In terms of cost performance, supercars of fuel vehicles are directly beaten by trams. Except for brand effect and cruising range, other technologies are lagging behind. Therefore, these luxury cars should have depreciated in value at present. Less.

However, fortunately, the external luxury car collection task is aimed at the landing price of the luxury car when it leaves the factory, not the current value.

Therefore, no matter how much these luxury cars are worth now, these 35 luxury cars are all useful to Yuan Ze.

Including the original batch of cars in the garage opposite Fenghuang Road, the number of luxury cars in Yuan Ze's hands has reached 72, which is less than 50 cars away from filling the garage.

Compared with the batch of luxury cars, Yuan Ze felt that Kang Lei and Hu Xu were more attentive than the five obedient and beautiful girls.

Among the five beautiful girls, two of them have reached the rare level. One is Cai Man and the other is Mu Shulian. They are not from Jiangcheng, but Kang Lei and Hu Xu brought them here from other places.

Therefore, in addition to having fun with the five of them, Yuan Ze also obtained a consumer card worth 5 million yuan, 5000 non-disclosure agreements and 12 green cards for patent applications.

……

(End of this chapter)