Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 8 Industry is the way to go
After lunch, the three of them went shopping in various shops in Shinjuku. It was not until dinner time that they smiled and chose to part ways.

"Don't you want to have dinner before you leave?"

Izumi Sakai gently shook her head, her eyes full of apology: "I'm really sorry, I've already told my family that I'll go back for dinner. Let's find a time next time."

Tanaka Eri is very smart and knows how to leave time for the two of them to be alone. When we were shopping just now, she often left quietly by herself.

Now that they are parting, of course she chooses to spend time with them.

"Uh, what's there to apologize for?" Takeshita Masato frowned slightly, then said as a matter of course: "Next time, you don't need to apologize for this kind of thing, just be more confident."

"Yeah, I know." Sister Quanshui dimples appeared on her face and she blinked her beautiful eyes unusually.

"Good to know. See you next time then!"

Masato Takeshita was a little surprised by the girl's playful expression, but he quickly came to his senses and said goodbye to the girl with a smile.

"Well, see you next time."

Izumi Sakai nodded her little head, then turned and walked towards her best friend under the gaze of the young man.

But after taking a few steps, she stopped.

Then her eyes wandered, a blush crept up on her cheeks, and she whispered in a very small voice, "Well, I'm free every night after 8 o'clock."

After saying this, he ran away quickly without waiting for Masato Takeshita to react.

"Sister Quanshui took the initiative to tell me to call her?"

Masato Takeshita has very good hearing, and he can still clearly hear Sister Izumizu's mosquito-like voice.

At this moment, he was completely shocked and didn't dare to believe that the sister Quanshui in his mind would be so proactive.

But the young man thought about it carefully.
A girl who can decide to quit her job at an old age to become an artist cannot be not bold.

If it were Masato Takeshita himself, he would never quit his stable job to pursue an illusory dream.

The single-plank bridge is not so easy to cross.

……

As time goes by, the relationship between Masato Takeshita and Sister Izumizu becomes closer and closer, and they are only one opportunity away from confessing their love.

While Masato Takeshita was successful in love, his career was also going extremely smoothly.

Not only did he make a fortune by participating in interviews at major companies and counting the gifts, he also made a fortune in the stock market.

"Sell all, and then continue with 5x leverage, holding a quarter of the shares in Changxin Bank, a quarter in Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, and the remaining half in Nintendo."

"Continue with 5x leverage?"

"That's right!"

Masato Takeshita's money-making routine is very simple. Whenever Nintendo's stock price rises by more than 20%, he sells all the stocks. Then he continues to speculate with a 5x leverage with the principal and profit he obtained.

Take his first purchase of Nintendo in February as an example:

He originally bought 300 million yen of Nintendo stock and with a 5x leverage, the funds turned into 1500 million.

In this way, after the stock price rises by 20%, all the stocks are sold without calculating the other fees.

His funds became 1500W×20%+300W=600W.

This is a very simple arbitrage formula that allows you to snowball your capital as quickly as possible, knowing that the stock will not fall sharply.

Of course, this is only possible when the market is very good and you are a small player.

Once the market is bad or your capital becomes large, you can no longer play like this. If you are targeted by a crocodile, your position will be liquidated in minutes.

The most typical example is crude oil treasure. Although it is a futures product, it is similar to stocks. As long as a big player gets involved, it is very likely to fall by 20%, not to mention 80%.

Therefore, Masato Takeshita also took out double insurance. Every time he sold stocks, he would not go all in, but would allocate half of the capital to bank stocks.

In this way, his holdings will only be cleared out if Nintendo plummets 40%.

In 1986, Nintendo was conquering North America. If it was valued by the capital giants, a 10% drop might have been possible, but a 40% drop was absolutely impossible.

Because there are many capital giants, if one giant goes too far, it will be eaten up by others.

It can be said that in the field of financial markets, everyone is a hunter and also a prey in the eyes of others.

"That's about it, time to get down to business."

Time soon came to June 1986, and Nintendo's stock price soared from less than 6 billion US dollars at the beginning of the year to 20 billion. Masato Takeshita, a player who followed Nintendo to get a bargain, also earned a full 40 million yen after deducting all expenses.

Although this amount of money can only buy a small and old house in Tokyo, it is already very good for him as a college student.

Nintendo's good news has almost been exhausted, and the stock has been trading sideways for more than ten days. Takeshita Masato simply took out all his money and went all in on bank blue chip stocks.

Although you may not earn enough this way, it is stable enough and you don’t have to worry about your assets exploding.

Of course, Takeshita Masato would not just leave the stocks on the stock exchange. He went straight to his Waseda senior at Industrial Bank and wanted to borrow more funds by mortgaging the bank's stocks.

If a person only has finance, he is like duckweed in the water, which will be blown away by the wind sooner or later.

Even the Morgan consortium, the dominant financial group in the United States, knew that finance alone was not enough. After Morgan and Morgan controlled the railway, steel and other industries through financial means, they gradually grew into a world-class consortium.

It is very easy for a time traveler to develop industry.

Because the things that were commonplace in your daily life before you traveled through time are extremely precious in this era.

Take computers as an example.
Today's operating systems are so cumbersome that they don't even have things like a start menu.

If you just draw the interface of a modern computer operating system, Microsoft will definitely spend a lot of money to buy it out.

In addition, the mouse is also a case.

In 1986, the mouse was still square. As long as you drew a curved mouse, you could make a fortune from the appearance patent.

It’s interesting to say that the only lesson mankind has learned from history is that there are no lessons.

Early cars were also square in shape, but were eventually changed to a streamlined shape for the sake of aesthetics.

Although the mouse is not the same thing as a car, they have some similarities. It took until the 90s for something as simple as changing it to a streamlined shape.

However, these things are still a bit too difficult for Masato Takeshita at the moment, and the cost for others to circumvent the patents is very low.

What he wants to do is to make it so that even if others know about it, they can't get around the patent.

For example, a trolley suitcase.

The simpler the patent, the harder it is to circumvent.

This revolutionary consumer product was launched in 1987. Its principle is so simple that even a child can make it, so no one can get around it.

It just so happens that Japan's tourism industry is booming right now.

Masato Takeshita believes that once the suitcase is on the market, it will be a best-seller across the country and even the world.

(End of this chapter)