Chapter 154 Mistake

Just the next day after Yeltsin's speech, the Organization Department of the CPSU Central Committee issued a statement. Comrade Yeltsin no longer served as Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee and an alternate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. This statement did not explain the reasons for Yeltsin's dismissal, but basically everyone who is concerned about this matter knows it well. Yeltsin is stepping down.

Sergey made a special trip to Yeltsin's home to visit him at the end of the meeting, and the two talked for two hours in Yeltsin's study. No one knows the content of their conversation. When Seryozha left Yeltsin's house, Yeltsin himself put him in the car. There was no look of frustration or annoyance on his face, on the contrary, he felt a lot more relaxed.

Not long after, the Mediterranean Trading Company under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation announced that it would take over the Artisan New City project from the Moscow Municipal Committee, and Yeltsin would continue to be the person in charge of the project. For most Moscow citizens, this was the only good news after Yeltsin lost power. And this move by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Soviet Union means that they and Ligachev are not in the same way, and they support Yeltsin with their own practical actions.

In view of the fact that Gorbachev still has the supreme status, Sergesha intends to wait for a while for Yeltsin to go to the United States for inspection, and temporarily avoid the domestic limelight. However, his crazy actions at the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee have now made him famous overseas, and political commentators in many Western countries have praised Yeltsin's brave actions. But Seryozha knew that Yeltsin hadn't changed at all.

While the Soviet Union was lively discussing its next year's economic and political reform goals, Sergey's high-frequency trading system had also come to an end. In order to maximize the advantage of speed, Seryozha placed the entire high-frequency trading computer room in the building where the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ are located. At the same time, fiber optic access was adopted, and Seriosha even asked Eva to enable the highest transmission authority for this line. Even if the entire network is in a traffic jam, the data of the Bank of Colombia can still flow unimpeded on the network.

The whole project is coming to an end, and now the final test is left. In order to test the degree of automation of this system, with the approval of Mikhail, the Bank of Colombia has opened a part of the funding authority to this system, which is used in the real world. Environment testing. It is already Friday, and Columbia Bank's high-frequency trading project testers are preparing for the last virtual environment test, because it takes almost a week to run the test program on the weekend, and in the previous tests No very serious problems were exposed, so not many developers stayed in the computer room.

The goal of the test this time is to verify how much profit the entire system can make in the event of a market decline. This is a routine test. The program will be tested in the real data environment of the NYSE, but no real transactions will occur because the network has not been switched to the real network environment. After the test engineer has set all the parameters of the whole program, he can't wait to get off work. This project has been going on for more than half a year, and almost all members of the project team have not had a vacation for a long time. So after getting the work done as required, the last few testers left the company early, and they have already started thinking about where to go this weekend to relax.

However, when these people left, no one noticed that what they connected to was not a test network environment, but a real network environment.

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In the No. 1 Liberty Square building in New York not far from here, the Salomon Brothers stock trading and sales department on the 40th floor is quietly waiting for the closing. In the spacious office, there will be calls from customers from time to time. .

Now in a cubicle by the window,

The senior broker Murphy is communicating with his clients on the phone, explaining the problems at work. To be honest, being a securities broker is not an easy job, because many times Murphy is unable to answer the questions raised by clients, such as "Why did the stocks you recommended cost me so much money?", "Why did you tell me the market was very good, but I lost so much instead?" Such questions.

Whenever he encounters such problems, Murphy always racks his brains to weave some ambiguous excuses to deal with clients. Although his job is a securities broker, his real job is to get clients to hand over money to Salomon Brothers. After all, this is a sales job with a low threshold. Although she works in Manhattan where every inch of land is expensive, she wears a custom-made suit worth tens of thousands of dollars, wears a handmade Swiss gold watch, and drives a car. A Ferrari sports car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But for the ups and downs in the capital market, Murphy actually didn't understand what was going on in most cases.

Now Murphy is communicating with two customers at the same time, and now there are three other customers waiting online. Murphy is currently too busy to separate himself. On the computer screen in front of him, the latest stock quotes are constantly flickering, the Murphy class didn't even have time to take a look.

Murphy managed to secure his client. He raised his head and glanced at the quotations on the monitor. He was just about to pick up his mug for a sip of coffee. At this moment, the Dow Jones index at the top of the quotation column Suddenly there was a change.

"Ah!" Murphy quickly put down his mug and took a closer look. In the blink of an eye, the Dow Jones Index dropped by more than 20 points from positive to negative. Before Murphy had time to react, the Dow Jones Index fell by two points again. It's past ten o'clock. Next, the Dow Jones Index began its own plunge. In just a few minutes, the index's husband expanded to 80 points.

At this moment, the already noisy Salomon Brothers phone rings one after another. It is easy to know that this is an inquiry call from customers who learned that the stock price has fallen. But Murphy didn't know what happened at all, and he didn't know how to explain it to his client.

Until the close of the day, the New York Stock Exchange Dow Jones index fell 5%, but market analysts did not know the reason for this. Many analysts attributed the decline to the market's long-term rise Adjustment. They think that by next Monday, the Dow Jones index will continue to rise after adjustment. ...