Chapter 48 Zhang Yang's Future Outlook

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[Today's trading strategy sharing, for reference only, does not constitute any investment advice.
Policy and News:
On April 20th, a Russian representative announced that a preliminary cooperation agreement in the oil sector had been reached with China, covering a package of cooperation including pipeline construction, crude oil trade, and loans, marking a major breakthrough in bilateral energy cooperation.
Previewed on April 21st, the Ministry of Finance announced it would join 11 related departments to discuss the "Detailed Rules for Home Appliances to the Countryside," a move that may significantly simplify the subsidy review and disbursement process.
Market Technicals: Driven by recent loose monetary policy benefits, the broader market continued to rise, touching the resistance level of 2559. This resistance level was formed on August 11, 2008, when the market fell by 5.21%. If there is no increase in trading volume in tomorrow morning's session to break the top divergence trend, it may fall into short-term sideways consolidation.
Main Force Capital: On April 20th, the trading volume reached 140.515 billion, with main force capital fleeing by 14.565 billion, among which northbound capital outflows accounted for 6.6 billion. The latter has seen capital outflows for four consecutive trading days, totaling 22.0 billion.
Personal Trades: Cleared out Huaxin Securities at 27.27 yuan, making a profit of 2,041 yuan; established positions of 40,000 yuan each in China Shenhua and Yangtze Power; kept the original position in ST Central Loom.]

When Zhang Yang's post was published, all 1,042 fans following him received notification messages, and hundreds of people poured in instantly.
After carefully reading Zhang Yang's post, they began to reply.
[Little White Not White]: Is Big God Joker being bearish? He actually cleared out Huaxin Securities, which is in an upward trend, and switched to energy stocks like Yangtze Power and China Shenhua.
[Love Drinking Small Cola]: The main force's capital flight was too fierce today. Who knows what inside information they have? I have already cleared my position to wait and watch.
[Qing Yuan]: I'm done for, I am totally done for, bro. My entire position is in Huaxin Securities. I wonder if they can give a higher opening tomorrow; if there's a higher opening, I'll clear out and run directly!

Having shared his trading strategies on the forum for over a dozen consecutive trading days and successfully escaping the top of Chang'an Automobile, Zhang Yang had already accumulated a group of loyal fans.
Guessing right once could be luck, and guessing right twice could also be luck, but for over a dozen consecutive trading days with a win rate close to 90%, let alone retail investors, even the hot-money investor "Jumping Brother" Chen Sanrong, who mutual-followed Zhang Yang, would habitually glance at Zhang Yang's posted trading strategy threads after every market close.
Not only Chen Sanrong, but Liao Guopei (Xincheng Shadowless Kick) also followed Zhang Yang's account and occasionally checked the latter's strategies.
The last battle of Chang'an Automobile had cost him dearly, and it was precisely that failure that led him to stumble upon Zhang Yang's posts.
As the saying goes: An expert knows if there's real skill at the first contact.
Liao Guopei only glanced at Zhang Yang's post and concluded that he was no ordinary retail investor, so he casually clicked the follow button, thinking he would just look at the other party's trading strategies when he had free time, gathering the strengths of many to make up for his own shortcomings.
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Shanghai Finance Library.
In the Financial Analysis Room.
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He Jing watched Zhang Yang share his trading strategies on the forum and asked with some curiosity, "Are you going to be an internet blogger?"
"It's just a traffic acquisition method."
Zhang Yang replied calmly, then explained further, "Once a certain amount of followers is accumulated, they can be developed into clients."
"I see."
He Jing nodded slightly, then seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, didn't you ask me to help you inquire about how much it costs to build a financial website last time? I contacted a friend from Fudan. Are you free tomorrow?"
"When?" Zhang Yang asked.
"After the market closes in the afternoon. Anyway, Fudan isn't far from our school. As for the 5 o'clock class, skipping one shouldn't matter," He Jing said indifferently.
"Alright, then we'll go over tomorrow."
Zhang Yang didn't think there was anything wrong with that.
Skipping classes was a common occurrence for college students, and besides, they were already seniors. Missing one or two classes wouldn't make the professors throw the book at them, since being held back a year wasn't a good thing anyway.
As for why Zhang Yang wanted to build a financial website, it actually involved his future career planning, roughly divided into two points:
1. Website subscriptions would be relatively transparent, allowing for better sales of market research reports and providing a stable cash flow.
2. Acquiring fund sales licenses and securities licenses in the later stages to transform into an internet finance platform.
East Money, a household name in his past life, had made its first pot of gold in its early days precisely by relying on retail investor interaction features coupled with financial news.
No one would have expected that a website initially intended only for retail investor communication would, a decade later, become a trading platform holding a securities license.
If Zhang Yang could own an internet trading platform with a securities license, he could transform overnight into a market maker collecting transaction commissions, which was something he wanted to do in his past life but never managed to achieve.
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Meanwhile.
On the other side.
Xuhui District, Shanghai, No. 88 Wanping South Road Building.
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At this moment, Shen Jun, the founder of East Money, was sitting at his office desk, reviewing the website traffic and advertising placement reports for April.
Ever since Shen Jun founded East Money in 2005 with 3 million yuan of his personal savings, positioning it as an online financial information platform, his life seemed to have hit the fast-forward button.
In 2006, the stock market communication section was launched, quickly attracting a massive number of stock investors through user interaction features. By 2007, the average daily visiting users exceeded 20 million, page views reached 250 million, and revenue soared from 4.12 million yuan in 2006 to 67.35 million yuan, with net profit increasing over 30-fold.
In the first quarter of 2009 alone, net profit reached as high as 17.96 million yuan.
It could be said that East Money was gradually moving in a favorable direction.
Although the annual net profit might still fall short of top-tier hot-money investors, the two were entirely incomparable; hot-money investors needed to bear risks, but running a financial website didn't require gambling on ups and downs.
"The page views and interaction volume in April actually dropped by 5.4% and 3.31%. We need to find a way to boost our competitiveness," Shen Jun glanced at General Manager Lin Shaoqiang standing beside him.
"This is mainly because Sina Finance and Tencent Finance have both launched interactive sections, and Baidu Post Bar is also competing with us for traffic..."
Lin Shaoqiang hurriedly explained the reasons for the decline. Before he could continue, Shen Jun interrupted him: "I don't want to know the reasons; what I want are page views and interaction volume."
"Yes, yes, yes."
Lin Shaoqiang replied repeatedly.
He could actually sense that Sina, Tencent, NetEase, and Baidu, including Baidu, all wanted a piece of the financial website pie, but backed by major capital, they really couldn't quite compete.
"How about this."
Shen Jun seemed to understand what the other person was thinking and spoke again, "Contact the project department and have them hold a meeting to discuss how to optimize the stock forum function, and try your best to stabilize the daily active users of retail investors for me. I'll be out raising investment these past two days, don't drop the ball on me."
"I'll contact them immediately."
"Go ahead."
As Lin Shaoqiang left, Shen Jun withdrew his gaze, pulled the "B-Class Fund Sales License Application Form" out of the drawer, and muttered:
"Rejected by the China Securities Regulatory Commission once again. Fund sales licenses are already this hard to apply for, wouldn't a securities license be as difficult as ascending to heaven?"
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