My absurd experiences in North America over the years

In December, the sky over Nashville is overcast, as if a thin layer of clouds blocks the sunlight from reaching the horizon.

There was no direct sunlight all morning. When the light seeped in from the window, it seemed to be filtered by something, and when it fell on the table, it appeared lukewarm and cold.

Li Fu sat in his office with two documents spread out in front of him: one was a summary of fund accounts submitted by Lina before she left, and the other was a list of holdings in gold and US stocks.

The total equity in the account has now grown from 10 billion to nearly 55 billion, with over 43 billion available for direct reinvestment.

Although he had already made a rough allocation, he still hesitated when it came time to build his position.

The US stock market is expected to have a bull market for more than a decade, which means that all the stocks he plans to invest in will make a lot of money. And it is precisely because they will all make money that he has difficulty making a choice.

In addition, he must look at the issue dialectically, whether the general trend will change because of his time travel.

If there are changes, what will change?

This is one of the reasons why he insisted on investing in China; currently, his time travel has had a negligible impact on the domestic market.

At the same time, he renamed the investment companies he had previously established in Hong Kong and Shenzhen as Yuanheng and Shenlan, and asked them to send their heads to assist Lina in conducting domestic business research.

Lina's dozen or so core members are all key personnel she has trained over the years, so their professional skills are definitely not a problem.

However, the domestic market is large and has many policies. If you are not familiar with China, you can easily get stuck at some point if you are not careful.

However, Li Fu wasn't too worried. There were still many people who admired foreign things in this era. Although he disliked these people, because of this trend, Lina wouldn't encounter any trouble in China.

After all, it's a foreign-invested enterprise now, and in the eyes of many Chinese people, foreign investment represents something high-end and prestigious in this era.

Li Fu plans to invest a total of 21.5 billion yuan in China, which is half of his total cash. He will not see a return on this money in the short term, but looking back in three to five years, it should earn more than if he had invested in the US stock market.

More importantly, that place is not under Washington's control, so no one will use "national security" to stop him.

Li Fu sorted out the domestic shareholding and then began to build positions according to the previously set investment plan.

The current price of gold is around 1212, which is still a considerable distance from the high point. However, he needs to be patient and wait for the price to return to the 1100 range before investing 5 million to build a position in batches.

With a leverage ratio of 3, the profits would be at least several billion, enough to cover the 2011 dividends.

For medium-term investments, he chose Apple and Amazon, each with 3 million and 2x leverage, holding them until around 2012 to partially realize profits. These two companies can be established now.

However, due to the large amount involved, it needs to be completed in batches over a longer period of time, taking at least a few working days to finish.

Li Fu personally directed the position building, which was completed in mid-December. During this period, gold experienced a deep correction, falling to around 1150. He did not wait for the best price and immediately began to build positions in batches.

Gold prices fluctuated wildly as the year drew to a close, and his entry into the market led bulls to believe that major players had made their move, prompting them to follow suit.

This directly drove up prices and increased the cost of building positions.

Li Fu originally planned to build up his position all at once, since he wouldn't lose too much money anyway, it was only a matter of tens of millions of dollars.

When he realized he had such thoughts, he immediately became vigilant. Complacency and pride are the root causes of most people's fall from their peak, and his current external environment did not allow him to act as he pleased. If he gave his enemies an opportunity, he might die without a burial place.

Earning less money isn't scary; what's scary is this kind of mentality.

So he calmed himself down and patiently waited for the market bulls to take profits and close their positions, then built up his position in batches.

By the time we were busy building our gold positions, it was already late December.

Li Fu's plan only left to build positions in the long-term targets S&P 500 and Nvidia. He considers the S&P 500 to be the most stable base position, with 5 million plus 3 times leverage.

Because the S&P 500 is a large and complex market, it was much easier to establish positions. It only took about seven or eight days to complete all the positions.

He planned to invest 5.4 million in Nvidia, with double leverage. However, Nvidia is just an individual stock, and the market value of the entire company is far less impressive than it later became. Concentrated investment could easily drive up the stock price and increase the cost of building the position.

Therefore, he plans to extend the accumulation period, investing around $1 million per cycle, with the cycle varying from one week to half a month. He will enter the market to build positions whenever the stock price retraces.

During this period, Li Fu promoted Lina's assistant, Clark, a top student majoring in finance at MIT.

He put Clark in charge of building up his position in Nvidia stock for the time being. The reason he dared to use him so boldly was not only because he was indeed capable, but also because Clark was a native of Nashville and came from a traditional white family.

This is crucial; at least he won't be easily corrupted by the enemy's free and pluralistic ideology.

As for sugar-coated bullets, he didn't think he could get such generous treatment anywhere else.

Work-related matters have temporarily come to a halt.

Li Fu still did not choose to leave Nashville and return to New York.

He still has one thing to deal with urgently.

That is to comprehensively improve the level of the security team.

Before this, he didn't care much about this because he himself was a top expert, whether it was life-or-death combat or firearms.

Moreover, the enemies back then were far fewer in number, and far less troublesome and difficult to deal with than they are now.

Goldman Sachs and the Kushner family have already exhausted all the legitimate means recently; the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, and the FBI have all failed to bring him down.

What if they become desperate and resort to assassination?

Li Fu's worries were not unfounded. If their roles were reversed, and the enemy were in his security environment, he would definitely have multiple opportunities to kill them with his abilities.

Therefore, he had to make changes.

First, he instructed Thompson to inform the security team that they would receive a one-third raise starting next month, and also to tell them that they would have to train for an extra three hours every day at the training facility.

The training intensity is very high, and there are many different activities involved.

His aim was to enable security personnel to maintain keen observation skills, improve their reaction speed in the face of emergencies, and enhance their shooting accuracy.

All three aspects are extremely important.

Because the training was too tough, some members of the security team of more than ten people began to complain privately, and eventually they collectively voiced their opinions.

They all felt that Li Fu's demands did not treat them as normal human beings at all, and that he wanted to reduce the difficulty of training or the training time.

Despite their complaints, not one of them wanted to quit.

This is actually quite simple: no employer can provide the existing wage guarantees and compensation policies.

Li Fu's team never encountered any danger, but after returning to Nashville from New York, he promised his security team that if anyone was killed or incapacitated, they could receive at least $100,000 a year from him.

The term is set at ten years. In special circumstances, such as having children to raise or elderly people to care for, the term can be extended until the children reach adulthood or the elderly pass away.

Besides humanitarian reasons, he was also worried that team members might be bribed.

To this end, he specifically stipulated that if anyone's family experiences a misfortune, such as a family member falling seriously ill and being unable to afford treatment, they can ask him for an advance, which will be deducted from their salary and bonuses later.

He can even help coordinate medical resources.

No matter how outstanding the individual security personnel are, you will never find another employer who provides such treatment.

They offer their opinions simply because they feel that some standards are beyond human capability.