Soviet Godfather

Just the next day after Yeltsin's speech ended, the Organization Department of the CPSU Central Committee issued a statement. Comrade Yeltsin no longer serves as secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee and an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU. This statement did not explain why Yeltsin was dismissed from his post, but basically everyone who was concerned about this matter knew it well. Yeltsin is about to step down.

　　 Xie Liaosha made a special trip to Yeltsin's home to visit him on the night of the meeting. The two talked for two hours in Yeltsin's study. No one knows the content of their conversation. When Selesha left Yeltsin's house, Yeltsin personally drove him into the car. There was no frustration or annoyance on his face, but it was a lot easier.

　　 Soon after, the Mediterranean Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, announced that it would retake the handicraftsman new city project from the Moscow City Committee, and Yeltsin will continue to be the project leader. For most of the citizens of Moscow, this is the only good news that came after Yeltsin lost power. The move of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation also means that they and Ligachev are not the same people, and they support Yeltsin with their own practical actions.

　　 In view of the fact that Gorbachev still holds the supremacy position, Sergei intends to wait a while for Yeltsin to visit the United States to avoid the domestic limelight for the time being. However, his crazy actions at the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the CPSU have now made him famous overseas, and many political commentators in Western countries praised Yeltsin's bravery. But Sergei knew that Yeltsin hadn't changed anything.

　　 While the Soviet Union was busy discussing his next annual economic and political reform goals, Sergei's high-frequency trading system has also come to an end. In order to maximize the speed advantage, Sergei placed the entire high-frequency trading computer room in a building at the location of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Center. At the same time, optical fiber access was also adopted. Sergey Sha even asked Eva to open the highest transmission authority for this line. Even if the entire network is congested, the data of the Bank of Colombia can still flow unimpeded on the network.

The whole project is nearing its end, and now there is only the final test work left. In order to test the degree of automation of this system, after Mikhail’s approval, the Bank of Colombia has opened a part of the funding authority to this system for use in the real world. Testing under the environment. It’s Friday now, and the testers of the Columbia Bank’s high-frequency trading project are preparing for the last virtual environment test. Because of the integrity of the weekend, the test program takes almost a week to run, plus the previous tests. No serious problems were exposed, so not many developers stayed in the computer room.

　　 The goal of the test this time is to verify how profitable the entire system can be when the market is falling. This is a routine test. The program will be tested under the real data environment of the New York Stock Exchange, but no real transaction occurs because the network has not switched to the real network environment. After the test engineer has set all the parameters of the entire program, he can't wait to drop off. The project has been underway for more than half a year, and almost all members of the project team have not had a vacation for a long time. So after finishing the work according to the requirements, the last few testers also left the company early. At this moment, they have begun to think about where to go this weekend to relax.

　　 But when these people left, no one noticed that they were not accessing the test network environment, but the real network environment.

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Not far from here in New York’s One Liberty Square, the Salomon Brothers stock trading and sales department on the 40th floor is quietly waiting for the closing. In the spacious office, there will be calls from customers from time to time. .

At this moment, in a cubicle near the window, senior broker Murphy was communicating with his clients on the phone, explaining work problems. To be honest, being a securities broker is not an easy job because many At that time Murphy was unable to answer the questions raised by customers, such as "Why did the stock you recommend made me lose so much?", "Why did you tell me that the market is very good, but I lost so much?" .

Whenever encountering such problems, Murphy always racks his brains to weave some ambiguity to deal with customers. Although his job is a stockbroker, his real job is to get customers to hand over money to Salomon Brothers. Let’s take care of it. After all, this is a sales job with low barriers. Although she works in Manhattan, where she has a lot of money, she wears a custom suit of tens of thousands of dollars~www.readwn.com~ wears hand-made Swiss gold. Watch, driving a Ferrari sports car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But for the rise and fall in the capital market, Murphy does not actually understand what is going on in most cases.

Now Murphy is communicating with two customers at the same time, and now there are three other customers waiting online. Murphy is now very busy and exhausted. On the computer display in front of him, the latest stock quotes are constantly changing. The flashing, Murphy-class didn't even have time to look at it.

Murphy finally settled down on his client. He raised his head and glanced at the quotation on the display. He just wanted to grab a mug and drink coffee. At this moment, he was on the Dow Jones Index at the top of the quotation bar. Suddenly there was a change.

"Ah!" Murphy quickly put down the mug and looked intently. In the blink of an eye, the Dow Jones index changed from positive to negative by more than 20 points. Just before Murphy had time to react, the Dow Jones fell by two again. Ten points. Next, the Dow Jones Index began its own plunge, and within a few minutes, the index's husband expanded to 80 points.

　　 At this moment, the noisy Solomon Brothers telephones ring one after another. You don't need to think about it. This is an inquiry call from customers when they learn that the stock price has fallen. But Murphy didn't know what happened, and he didn't know how to explain it to his clients.

Until the close of the day, the New York Stock Exchange’s Dow Jones Index plummeted by 5%, but market analysts did not know why. Many analysts blamed the decline on the long-term market rise. Adjustment. They believe that until next Monday, the Dow Jones Index will continue to rise after adjustment. ...