chapter 6
[The 42nd Daebak Securities Practical Investment Competition] Last day.
He sold his last shares before the stock market closed.
Profit on the last day was 23%. It was a meaningful number that reaped a kind of beauty.
‘The balance is 363.46 million won.’
It was an amount that made me smile.
***
42nd Daebak Securities Practical Investment Contest award screening TFT temporary office.
Choi, who was rolling the mouse wheel while glaring at the monitor with a serious face, sighed.
“Ha. That’s strange. It can’t be like this.”
“Chief Choi. What’s going on?”
“Chief Park. Isn’t there something strange about this person?”
“who?”
“I’m Ha-yeon’s father.”
While the KOSPI fell by a whopping 220 points from 3,000 to 2,780, the 3534.6% return was also amazing, but that wasn’t the problem.
“What’s wrong?”
“I traded every day, but there is no negative item. Is this possible?”
“Aren’t you mistaken?”
“It’s real.”
Even Warren Buffett, considered one of the best investors, was sometimes at a loss.
“I must have looked at it wrong.”
“Because it’s not.”
Director Park frowned and pushed his butt in.
“Look out.”
When Deputy Assistant Manager Choi moved away from her seat, Manager Park’s heavy ass took over the chair.
He rolled the mouse wheel with a serious face. The award screening TFT was an organization created to select those who were not eligible for the award. They started with 1st place and checked the accounts of everyone who won the prize to see if there was any cheating.
He scanned the account of Ha-yeon’s father, namely Kim Jae-gu, with a hawk’s eye.
His fingers grew slower.
‘what?’
He closed and opened his eyes, then scanned them again from top to bottom. I felt a sense of incongruity in the red account with no blue lights.
“Chief. Right? Something is wrong with this person.”
“Wait. Isn’t this a server error?”
“Shall we check the computer room?”
“yes.”
While Assistant Manager Choi called the computer room to check, Manager Park checked the data several times.
After that, we started researching each item. It was to catch any signs of price manipulation or operationalism.
After tapping the keyboard and mouse for a while, he scratched his head.
“damn.”
I traded as the pop-up told me, so there was no other problem.
“Manager Park. I checked in the computer room, and the server is said to be fine.”
“Are you all right?”
“Yes.”
“Then is this a skill?”
He frowned and stared at the screen. The transaction history, which was only red, was so fantastic.
‘If it wasn’t for seeking inside information, it would be skill. Since they are companies that have nothing in common, it can’t be said that they obtained all the information.’
A man who made a profit of 3500% without making a single mistake while the KOSPI fell by 220 points.
Manager Park of the Strategic Planning Department at Daebak Securities became curious about Ha-yeon’s father.
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Manager Park of the Strategic Planning Department at Daebak Securities became curious about Ha-yeon’s father.
He sent the screen as a printout and jumped up from his seat.
“I’ll be gone for a while.”
“Where are you?”
“Sir, Mr. Seo.”
Director Park was in a hurry. If this is an outstanding talent, I wanted to scout him as a trader of Daebak Securities so that he would not be taken away by other securities companies.
I wanted to receive it under my heart, but I thought of the company’s profits because it was not a department that directly touched stocks.
He took the data printed out from the printer and knocked on the door of Seo Moon-yeol.
“come in.”
“Director. Hello.”
“Uh. Yeah. What’s going on?”
Seo Mun-yeol, the gray-haired managing director, was in charge of the management department of Daebak Securities. Thanks to his strict personality, he was famous for making no mistakes, and he was an executive who was evaluated to be victorious in the future.
The human resources department was also one of his management departments. He had the final decision-making authority regarding personnel.
When Manager Park faced him, he felt like a mouse in front of a cat.
“I want to scout one of the contestants as a trader.”
“Who is Ha-yeon’s father?”
“Yes. Manager.”
“It sure was a high yield, but it could be luck, right?”
Managing Director Seo looked at Manager Park with sharp eyes. Director Park swallowed his saliva and opened his mouth.
“If you look at the trading patterns, it can’t be luck.”
“What’s your trading pattern?”
Director Park approached Seo’s desk and put down the paper. Only black and red letters were visible on the pure white paper.
Managing Director Seo put on his glasses and went through the paper. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Manager Park.
“What is this?”
“This is Hayeon’s father’s transaction record during the tournament.”
“You have so many trades and you’ve never lost money?”
“Yes.”
He adjusted his glasses again and glanced at the paper once more.
“Call me right away.”
****
Office workers have a disease called Monday disease.
It was a disease that made me really hate to work on Mondays. I am no exception, so I became especially reluctant to work on Mondays.
‘I have to quit this job soon.’
I got a job at Lim Han-ul’s company to borrow money as soon as possible, but as the amount of investment increased, the transaction was becoming increasingly difficult.
‘If I buy it, it goes up.’
Fortunately, if a company with a large market capitalization was caught, there was no problem in buying, but if a company with a small market capitalization and low trading volume was caught, a problem occurred that the rate of return decreased.
‘There is a limit to split purchases.’
There was a limit to what people could do with their hands. I needed a program to help me with my trading. Since we had to compare 5 items at the same time, HTS or apps on the market were not enough.
‘It’s not profitable to learn programming and do it.’
I saw Park Min-seok pounding hard on the keyboard next to me. He was typing at high speed on a screen with a program language floating on it.
You didn’t have to go far, you could just ask an expert.
“Park Min-seok.”
“·······.”
I couldn’t hear it well because I was wearing headphones. He tapped him on the shoulder and called again.
“Park Min-seok!”
“Ouch! What a surprise!”
he groaned and flinched. When I pretended to take off the headset, he took it off too.
“why?”
“Is there a good place to make a simple macro program?”
There were sites I looked for on the net, but there were so many advertisements that it was difficult to find a good place.
“Which program is it?”
“It’s an equity investment program.”
Fortunately, Im Han-ul had an external meeting, so he was away. If I had heard of it, it was fortunate that I would have nagged at it, asking if I was still investing in stocks.
“Is it complicated?”
“I’m trying to buy and sell while comparing five stocks.”
“You mean buying and selling by operating the mouse and keyboard with the stock trading program running?”
Unlike the conversation with Noh Yuri, the words were clear.
“I wish I could use it as a smartphone.”
“A smartphone?”
“Yes. You can monitor anywhere.”
“If it’s a smartphone program… why don’t you ask the professor in the lab I used to attend?”
The professor was trustworthy enough.
“Who are you?”
“A professor appointed by KAIST.”
KAIST? Suddenly, Park Min-seok seemed smart.
Can I ask a KAIST professor for a program like this? What do you think? There was no reason to refuse to introduce me through personal connections.
“How about 2 million won?”
“I’ll ask you one more time.”
Park Min-seok sent a message through messenger. A phone call would have been faster, but the professor was busy, so a message would have been better.
While I was looking for information on the Internet and waiting for a reply, my personal cell phone started ringing.
It was the first phone number I saw. It didn’t appear as a spam number, so I received it.
“hello?”
“Hello. I’m Park Jae-seop, general manager of Daebak Securities.”
“Yes. Hello. Wait a minute.”
If it was Daebak Securities, it would have been an award-related contact, so it was burdensome to talk on the phone in the office.
He covered the microphone of his phone with his hand and spoke softly.
“I’ll pick up the phone and come.”
“Yes.”
I got out of the office and got a call back.
“You waited long?”
“It’s okay. More than that, are you Ha-yeon’s father Kim Jae-goo?”
“you’re right.”
“First of all, congratulations on winning first place.”
“thank you.”
“If it’s not rude, may I ask what you’re doing?”
“Why?”
“I’m going to put it on the winner’s interview.”
Come to think of it, was there a saying that when you win an award, you do an interview? It wasn’t even face-to-face, so I was able to talk about it.
“Now I work in the Customer Satisfaction Center.”
“Isn’t it a securities company?”
“Yes.”
“Then, do you have any plans to work at a securities company?”
“There is not.”
Even with about 500 million won, I was struggling because the stock price changed when I invested, but I had no intention of working at a securities company.
“Don’t do that, can’t you listen to the conditions? Let’s take a look at your face.”
“Let’s talk here.”
“We will match the incentives to the basic salary of 300 million won.”
If it was me in the past, I might have been tempted. No, I must have accepted it 100% and then rolled over and got stressed out. Or get stabbed in the back.
“I have no idea.”
“How about giving 10% of the profits?”
It was such an unconventional condition that I almost accepted it. However, it was better to invest and roll with my own money than to be tied to the company and receive a 10% profit.
Because the magic of compound interest is a very great magic.
“I have no idea.”
“I will entrust you with 10 billion. Even if you achieve a rate of return of only 300%, it is 10% of 30 billion, or 3 billion.”
My mouth is salivating. But I had to put up with it. Because an even better future was waiting for me.
“Have you finished talking about the award?”
“This is a really unconventional condition. Please think again.”
“If we’re done talking about the award, we’ll hang up.”
“Jaegu Kim. Please don’t do that.”
Tu-du-du-du.
I hung up the phone because it was going to be too long.
I, who was imprisoned for 1.5 billion that I did not steal, now receive an offer of a huge amount.
‘Because the rate of return was enormous.’
It was 10 billion won because they didn’t believe in me yet, but it was clear that if they achieved results, they would entrust more than 100 billion won. However, rolling such a large amount of money was different from rolling my own money now.
Being greedy too much can ruin your life.
‘Shit. It’s a pity though.’
I checked my account balance and soothed my bitter heart.
It worked very well.
***
The actual investment competition was announced.
[The 42nd Daebak Securities Practical Investment Competition]
[10 million won league]
[1st place: Hayeon’s father]
[Cumulative Yield: 3534.6%]
It was an expected result and there were no surprises. Since it continued to fall during the actual investment competition, it was able to widen a huge gap with 600% of the second place.
At first, I was blinded by the prize money of 20 million won, so I struggled to raise 10 million won, but after a month, I earned so much money that the prize money felt like a pittance.
‘I guess I can use the prize money.’
It was a waste to imagine how much money it would be if you invested, but with this ability, you could earn more money in the future.
Because the balance has already increased to 460 million won.
Of the 20 million won, it was decided to use 10 million won as an investigation fee to clear the false charge, and leave 5 million won as an emergency fund.
‘How should I use the remaining 5 million won to spread rumors that I spent it well?’
< 3500% profit per month! > end