Chapter 087: Trading Futures

A few of them discussed some company-related matters here, until it was almost time for the market to open, and then they each went back to their tasks.

Chen Wei calmed down a bit, and after the market opened, he first looked for opportunities in other stocks as usual.

After searching for a while, he did find two chances to short stocks, so he called out to Zheng Junpeng and Zhou Yi to do two trades together and made over two thousand yuan.

After that, he looked for several stocks with downtrends and went short on them.

Chen Wei now had a capital permission of ten million yuan, with no limit on the number of contracts, as long as it did not exceed ten million. Thus, he didn't need to pile up several hundred-lot orders anymore. Instead, he put in one order for each stock, with some at a thousand lots, some at five hundred lots, and some at two hundred lots. For stocks with high trading volumes and thick orders, Chen Wei would put in more, and for those with low trading volumes and thin orders, he would put in fewer.

After shorting several stocks, his capital permission was used up.

The main reason was that two of the stocks were over twenty yuan each, with a thousand-lot order for each, using up nearly half of his capital permission.

After shorting them, Chen Wei waited quietly.

Zhou Yi came over to take a look and saw Chen Wei shorting again. He said, "Boss, if any of those stocks are going to spike later, give us a shout, and we'll join in for some soup."

Chen Wei nodded.

After Zhou Yi went back, he didn't bother searching for stocks himself but directly focused on the ones Chen Wei was watching.

He was thinking if he could also figure something out...

One by one, many short orders came in for Chen Wei, and the stock prices steadily declined, all showing unrealized gains.

After a few minutes, one of the stocks, priced at over twenty yuan, surged nearly two yuan. With a thousand-lot short order, there was nearly two hundred thousand yuan in unrealized losses!

Chen Wei quickly activated a skill, went back ten seconds, shouted, and then entered a five hundred-lot short order himself.

Because of the nature of such stocks, Chen Wei didn't dare to take too much on the opposite side. Taking too much could make exiting difficult. Additionally, he was concerned that holding too much might have an unpredictable impact on the market, which wouldn't be good.

Five hundred lots was already quite a lot.

Zhou Yi had been watching all along and, upon hearing Chen Wei's call, didn't hesitate to enter a three hundred-lot short order.

With only a hundred-lot permission, if he wanted to enter more, he could only do so in consecutive transactions. However, it wasn't guaranteed to succeed every time, and ultimately, such actions were considered unauthorized operations.

If they made money, the company might turn a blind eye, but if they lost, they'd immediately lower their permissions.

Zheng Junpeng was a bit slower. By the time he switched to the stock, the price had already risen.

It went up by over two yuan.

Zheng Junpeng sighed with some frustration, but Zhou Yi was excited and shouted loudly. With three hundred lots, he made over fifty-six thousand!

Chen Wei also made nearly ninety thousand yuan.

Mainly because he exited a bit slowly, about two hundred lots didn't make it out in time, and the price had dropped by the time he sold them off.

After this trade, over an hour passed before another stock spiked. However, this time, the spike was much smaller, only about thirty cents.

After all, it was a stock priced at over five yuan, so it couldn't spike too much.

Thirty cents was still money. Chen Wei activated the skill again, went back ten seconds, shouted, and then entered a long position for over two hundred lots.

This stock didn't have as much volume as the previous one, and since the previous stock's five hundred-lot order was barely filled, this stock could only accommodate about two hundred lots.

Zhou Yi had been waiting and, upon hearing Chen Wei's call, entered over a hundred lots.

This time, Zheng Junpeng reacted quickly and also entered two hundred lots.

There was still some deviation this time, and the price rebounded nearly forty cents.

However, with the heavy positions they held, they didn't sell at the peak. It wasn't until the price dropped nearly twenty cents that they closed their positions.

Chen Wei and Zheng Junpeng made over five thousand yuan, and Zhou Yi made over three thousand.

Zhou Yi had surpassed sixty thousand for the day and was extremely excited.

Last month, Yuan Tong only made less than sixty thousand yuan in a month, but he was flaunting it around. Now Zhou Yi had made more in one night than Yuan Tong had in a month.

Of course, Zhou Yi didn't care how he made the money; he just cared that he made it.

Pan Zhiyao came over, also envious, clamoring to switch positions with Zhou Yi so he could also earn some with Chen Wei. Zhou Yi wouldn't agree!

The two of them made a fuss for a while.

Chen Wei still had ten seconds left on his skill, but he didn't plan to use it. He canceled all the short positions and closed all the long positions he entered. These short positions had also made nearly twenty thousand.

Today's total profit was over a hundred and thirteen thousand.

The system experience gained two hundred and fifty points, making it a total of three hundred and fifty points now. Only a hundred and fifty points more were needed for an upgrade.

Afterward, Chen Wei didn't idle. He traded in several large-cap stocks again.

Zhou Yi stopped directly and started playing games...

It was indeed not easy to trade in several large-cap stocks. The volatility was too fast, and before he could figure out any patterns, the prices changed.

Chen Wei traded until it was almost time to close, but he only made less than two hundred yuan.

After the market closed, he went online to look for office spaces for rent in the north of the city.

He found a few that were about right and noted them down.

After closing, Chen Wei didn't linger and left the company directly, taking a taxi home.

He had to find time to trade futures during the day, so he couldn't leisurely walk home.

When he got home, he ate something quickly, set an alarm for one o'clock noon, and then went to bed.

To ensure sufficient sleep, Chen Wei could only give up trading in the morning session and focus on the afternoon session. As his capital increased in the future, he would gradually reduce his trading time in the US stocks and increase his trading time in futures.

At one o'clock noon, he was awakened by the alarm.

Chen Wei was still a bit groggy. He washed his face and felt slightly more awake.

He grabbed a sandwich with ham and took a few bites before turning on the computer, logging into the software, and preparing for the market opening, which was coming up soon.

Chen Wei first checked the morning market movements.

The stock market had dropped slightly, but the decline wasn't significant. Gold and copper were basically the same as yesterday, moving sideways. He also checked a few other commodities, but there weren't any major movements.

Chen Wei then turned his attention back to copper.

He didn't need to look at too many commodities now; being too greedy could lead to poor decisions. He decided to thoroughly study the trend of copper first.

In the morning, copper closed at 47380, reaching a high of 47500 and a low of 47380.

This meant that copper closed at its lowest price in the morning.

Especially in the last half-hour of the morning, there was a generally downward trend.

Chen Wei was well aware that in such a scenario, there was a high probability that the market would continue to drop at the opening of the afternoon session.

Of course, it might not drop by much.

With this assessment, Chen Wei set up his orders in advance, ready to go short as soon as the market opened.