"Brother Feng, you really aren’t leaving yourself any escape route..."
Yang Qiniang, finally recovering from his shock, said to Lin Feng with a complex expression.
Lin Feng gave a faint smile. "Playing the stock market is all about the thrill, isn’t it?"
"Besides, do you think playing for small stakes is any fun?"
Lin Feng countered.
Yang Qiniang recalled the feeling of making millions in an instant on the last two occasions.
Even just recalling it was exhilarating.
But the thought of all one hundred and forty million being staked on this...
Yang Qiniang clutched his pounding heart and said to Lin Feng, "It’s exhilarating, sure, but this is a little too much! I don’t think my heart can take it!"
"Aren’t we being too risky, putting all our money on this one stock?"
Lin Feng smiled and shook his head. "From the moment we chose to invest in the stock market, every step has been a risk."
Yang Qiniang paused, taken aback by Lin Feng’s words.
Lin Feng was right.
From the moment they decided to invest in the stock market, they were walking on a knife’s edge with every step.
After all, the Celestial Stock Market was notoriously volatile.
No one could predict the general trend of the Celestial Stock Market.
Yang Qiniang’s original idea had been to invest in the stock market by picking some of the more stable stocks.
Or, at most, to invest in some of the most stable sectors.
But now that he was actually in the market, watching the charts fluctuate wildly...
Yang Qiniang finally understood how naive his old way of thinking had been.
Those stocks might have been the top choice for a stable investment.
But they couldn’t really generate much of a return.
They might be worth holding as a long-term investment.
But for a true long-term hold, who could guarantee they would continue to rise steadily forever?
Now, Yang Qiniang finally understood something about the stock market.
There was no such thing as a guaranteed win.
Seeing Yang Qiniang lost in thought, Lin Feng considered for a moment.
Then, he pulled their funds from an underperforming stock.
"Here’s fifty million. Take it and practice."
With a grand gesture, Lin Feng handed the funds over to Yang Qiniang.
Yang Qiniang was stunned.
He looked at Lin Feng. "This fifty million... it’s all for me?"
"That’s right. It’s all yours to manage. Let’s say for one week!"
Lin Feng smiled, giving Yang Qiniang an encouraging look.
"Can I really do this?"
Holding the fifty million felt like holding a hot potato. Yang Qiniang was hesitant.
"Don’t worry. Just take this fifty million and play with it. Whether you win or lose, it won’t have a major impact on our company!"
Lin Feng said with an encouraging smile.
Yang Qiniang wasn’t a coward.
He had spent the last couple of days watching Lin Feng strategize and make trades behind the scenes.
It wasn’t as if Yang Qiniang didn’t have his own ideas. They were all finance majors, after all, so he had plenty of theoretical knowledge.
In fact, he had been itching to try his own hand and trade for real.
’I can’t believe Lin Feng saw right through me and just handed over fifty million.’
Yang Qiniang accepted the fifty million, his eyes gleaming.
"What if I really lose it all?"
Yang Qiniang was still worried.
After all, the recent volatility of the stocks he’d been watching was genuinely concerning.
Lin Feng waved his hand grandly. "Go on, trade with confidence. I’m holding the lion’s share, anyway!"
"And you know what I’m capable of when it comes to making money!"
Hearing this, Yang Qiniang was finally at ease.
"You’re a true brother, Brother Feng! I’ve been dying to get in on the action for real!"
The market hadn’t closed for the day yet.
But Yang Qiniang wasn’t in a hurry to rashly invest the money he now controlled.
From trailing Lin Feng these past few days, Yang Qiniang had gained a basic understanding of the market.
The most stable was, of course, the consumer sector.
After all, everyone needs to consume things throughout their lives.
However, while the consumer sector was stable, its drawbacks were also plain to see.
Because it was so stable, it was only suitable for long-term investments; short-term returns were unlikely to be high.
However, if Yang Qiniang wanted to play it safe, the consumer sector was his most secure option.
In fact, the stocks in this sector were precisely what Yang Qiniang had originally planned to invest in.
After all, that kind of steady growth, while modest, would at least guarantee he wouldn’t lose his principal and could still make a decent profit.
With a principal of fifty million, he could probably make over a hundred thousand in a week.
However, after following Lin Feng and witnessing those massive swings...
...seeing returns of several million on an investment of tens of millions...
...and experiencing the rush of buying at the low and selling at the peak...
...when he looked back at the sectors and stocks he had originally chosen, they now seemed utterly bland.
Not the least bit exciting.
And completely unremarkable.
Yang Qiniang sighed. ’I guess Lin Feng’s influence has rubbed off on me more than I thought.’
"Looks like I need to scrap my old plan and start from scratch. I have to rethink this!"
By the time the market closed, Yang Qiniang still hadn’t invested a single cent of the fifty million.
It was the kind of thing that seemed exciting when you were just watching from the sidelines.
But when it was his turn to actually make the investment and choose the stocks, Yang Qiniang found himself being much more cautious.
Besides, he was at a loss for what to buy.
"Forget it!"
"I’ll sleep on it tonight!"
Yang Qiniang said goodbye to Lin Feng and headed home, his mind heavy with thought.
Lin Feng watched him go, a faint smile on his face.
’Since Yang Tianming wanted me to help Yang Qiniang grow...’
’...then I might as well give him a real chance.’
’Fifty million is a lot of capital to start with.’
’Playing it safe, he could definitely make over a hundred thousand in a week.’
’That’s much better than the interest it would earn sitting in a bank, no matter how you slice it.’
But Lin Feng had a feeling that Yang Qiniang wouldn’t choose the safe option.
That was just the nature of the stock market.
Perhaps people started out with a conservative attitude.
They might even be timid, unsure of where to invest.
But as the amount of money in their hands grew, and as they witnessed the dizzying fluctuations of the market...
...most people would abandon their overly conservative ways.
Truly conservative people didn’t play the stock market in the first place.
The capital of the truly conservative rich was mostly in wealth management products or investment firms.
So, for the people "surfing" the stock market...
...aside from a few greenhorns...
...what they were all chasing was the thrill, the dream of getting rich overnight.
Lin Feng believed that by now, Yang Qiniang had become one of these adventurers.
Lin Feng glanced at the performance of the stock he had just purchased.
’In the next three days... ’
’...this stock is going to experience some wild swings.’
’And I have an amazing plan for it.’
With this stock, Lin Feng was going to make a big play!
"The three of you can go join Yang Qiniang. He’s still a rookie..."
"You can help show him the ropes."
Lin Feng glanced at the three team members he had hand-picked in the office.
Truth be told, these three hadn’t played much of a role recently.
The reason Lin Feng had kept them by his side was to let them see what a truly unorthodox strategy looked like in action.
Over the last few days, Lin Feng had given them a live demonstration of just how powerful such an approach could be.
Now was the perfect time to place them with Yang Qiniang.
They could help him manage that fifty million.
An investment firm couldn’t possibly rely on just one person.
Lin Feng had recruited all these people with the company’s future growth in mind.
Every trader should have their own style of managing capital.
For now, Lin Feng was trading personally. His main goal was to use the Stock Market Trend Prediction Card from the system.
He wanted to use it to grow this one hundred and seventy million in capital as much as possible.
After all, for an investment firm, a principal of one hundred and seventy million was on the small side.
According to Lin Feng’s plan, once the firm’s capital had grown sufficiently...
...he would let these core team members start managing their own portfolios.
Then, each of them would trade according to their own distinct investment style.
Of course, Lin Feng would still be in charge of the main portfolio, directing the overall strategy from behind the scenes.
The three core members were well aware that they couldn’t be of much use to Lin Feng at the moment.
It was better to be with Yang Qiniang than to stand around idly.
The fifty million in investment capital under Yang Qiniang’s control offered plenty of room to maneuver.
"Understood. We’ll make investments based on the current market conditions!"
Vice President Li nodded.

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