Chapter 124 High Frequency Trading

Serezha found that since time travel, his preferences for women have changed a lot. Before time travel, Seryozha liked quiet and lovely girls, but now he prefers powerful and strong women. From Tonya, the daughter of a counter-rebel who I first met; then to Karim, the daughter of a subjugated king; and finally Eva, a former temporary worker of the CIA. The three women have one thing in common, that is, they never bow to fate. And the same is true of Yulia, who is now sleeping soundly in Seryozha's arms.

Yulia was born in the countryside of Dnipropetrovsk, she is an out-and-out country girl. And because her mother is Armenian, Yulia has been discriminated against since she was a child. These things were learned by Sergey little by little in his daily work. Maybe it's because of the long-term love, maybe it's because Yulia is indeed irresistible. Anyway, Seryozha finally subdued this charming little elf.

There are still a few days before the real New Year's holiday. This year, Seryozha plans to reunite with his relatives in the Czech Republic. Now the central government is very strict on the visits of senior cadres, and Seryozha also has to remotely direct domestic protests. So it was inconvenient for him to go far from Moscow.

During the period before the start of the New Year's holiday, Seryozha took Yulia out to sea during the day, and enjoyed the world of the two in the residence at night. The relationship between the two is a bit strange to say. Sergesha once asked Yulia if she would like to leave the Shenko family at the end of the season. Yulia smiled and declined the suggestion.

"Why don't you leave the Shenko family at the end of the season? If you follow me, I can give you better..." Sergey asked puzzled.

"Are you asking me as Minister Ulyanov, or as Seryozha?" Yulia asked Seryozha.

"Of course it's Seryozha's identity. I want to ask the lovely Yulia, why can't you stay by my side?" Seryozha asked in a different tone. But he was thinking about how to explain to his current women.

"Seryozha, although I love you, I don't want to belong to anyone, whether it is the Ji Moshenko family or your Minister Ulyanov. I don't like the way you men are superior..." Ji Moshenko Changing from his usual gentle appearance, he suddenly became strong.

"So, Seryozha, now it's your turn to be below..." Yulia changed the subject, and suddenly said playfully and frivolously, and then rode on Seryozha's waist.

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Before the Christmas holiday of Western Christians, the fledgling Iridium Corporation announced a major good news, that is, the communication cable laid by Iridium Corporation in the New York and Boston areas has been completed, and all the universities in the two cities will be connected. At the same time, another commercial network has been put into operation between New York and Boston.

These two pieces of news became the hottest topics in the American technology circle before Christmas, and many users who were eager to try new technologies made access requests through AT&T.

Although this is just an experimental network, because Yota communication technology is stable and reliable, and the initial users are still very few, so the users of Yota and Iridium are full of praise for the communication service of Iridium. At a press conference, Eva, on behalf of the board of directors of Iridium, revealed two major good news to the media. One is that Iridium’s fiber optic cable project linking the east and west coasts of the United States has started, and the other is that the US NASDAQ The stock exchange decided to use Iridium for data exchange. As soon as the news came out, Iridium star blasted the front pages of the US financial media at once.

Seryozha, who was on vacation with Yulia in Sochi at this time, immediately called Mikhail after learning the news and asked him to order the latest and most powerful mainframe computer from IBM.

"Seryozha, what do you want this thing for? Not to mention that there are very few engineers who can operate this kind of thing, the price of this thing is not cheap..." Mikhail asked in confusion on the phone.

"Mikhail, this is the trend of technological development in the future. I want to connect all our capital transactions to computers. In addition, I want Eva to find a way to convince the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange to do the same after the holiday. Use ours to exchange transaction data." Seryozha said impatiently on the other side of the phone.

"Come on, Seryosha, have you thought of some idea to make big money again?" Mikhail couldn't believe that just for this purpose, he would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase the kind of giant bomb that the U.S. Department of Energy uses to study nuclear bomb explosions. Computers, that thing is a luxury for Columbia Bank.

"Mikhail, Iridium's network technology is in our hands, right?" Seryozha asked.

"Of course, why ask?" Mikhail replied.

"Then we can make the data packets of the Bank of Colombia transmit faster than the data packets of other companies in the network, right!" Sergesha asked again.

"This, although I'm not very clear, but I think it should not be difficult to achieve!" Mikhail still didn't understand what Seryozha wanted to do.

Seryozha continued in a persuasive manner: "Let me give you Mikhail as an example. Suppose there is a stock in the market with a sell order of $5.05, but most of the trading machines have not had time to display it because of the communication delay. Unknowingly, another $5.06 buy order was placed. If our transmission rate and calculation rate were twice that of other parties on the exchange, our computer would know these two orders before all traders found them existence, then..."

"Then our computer can take the $5.05 sell order and resell it to the fool who bid $5.06..." Mikhail finally understood now that as long as you are faster than everyone, then you can trade in all trades. Before the staff made a move, they grabbed these two deals.

What Seryozha had to do was what Mikhail thought, using Yota's communication technology and IBM's computing speed to take the lead in stock trading. This kind of behavior will be strictly prohibited by the regulatory authorities in the future, and it has a special name called high-frequency trading.

Although the high-frequency trading in the future will be invented by some unruly financial institutions long after the Internet, but now even the Internet is owned by Iridium, and Eva only needs to secretly increase the data priority of the Columbia Bank.