Chapter 22

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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‘Hello! I’m a man who loves tanking, Jeong Jin-ho. Please take care of me!’

He still vividly remembers when Jin-ho first entered the guild.

How happy guild members were when young blood came into a place full of old men.

Plus, he always had a bright attitude, a talent for brightening the atmosphere, and excellent gaming skills.

That’s why Hwang Dae-woon entrusted the raid leader position entirely to Jin-ho.

Usually when doing raids, the most important thing isn’t clear time.

It’s human relationships.

Dozens of raid members in one raid party.

The raid leader has to balance considering their skills and classes, designate positions, and command them.

Is that all?

The raid leader is a very heavy position that has to check raid members’ suggestions, complaints, various issues and coordinate accordingly.

Jin-ho shone there.

Rather than putting clearing as the top priority, he focused on making the raid atmosphere as bright as possible.

Not an atmosphere that turns cold when someone makes a mistake, but an atmosphere where they can laugh and talk all day.

From that time, the guild changed completely.

Before, guild members often fought hurting each other’s feelings during raids, and the guild collapsed several times, but after Jin-ho came, that never happened once.

Hwang Dae-woon, who was stressed by people at work and was thinking of quitting gaming because he hated that even in games, came to love gaming again thanks to Jin-ho.

Well, to be precise, he liked being active in that guild where Jin-ho was.

That’s why he cherished Jin-ho so much.

When the guy said he was quitting gaming to prepare for employment, his heart sank and whether there was talk or not, he immediately stuck him in the company.

Even if his specs were lacking.

Even if he had no skills.

He was going to keep him to the end.

He planned to do that.

He was going to do that.

“Does this number make sense?”

Hwang Dae-woon clicked his tongue looking at the indicators of Prop Trading Team 7, currently generating the only unbelievable return rate among all departments at Gwangwoon Securities.

“It doesn’t make sense. If you tell them to turn 50 billion into several times in a few days, who would accomplish that? Be lucky not to get reported to the labor office.”

Doubling 50 billion in a short time is extremely difficult.

But turning it into 5 times in a week was unprecedented in Gwangwoon Securities history.

“President. I’m really curious. This friend, where on earth did you bring him from? Looking at his specs, he never worked at a securities firm before. He was even unemployed. But how did you recognize such talented personnel.”

“That’s.”

President Hwang Dae-woon coughed.

He couldn’t bring himself to say he met him while gaming and with pity, squeezed his eyes shut and stuck in a parachute.

“There’s something called fate. Don’t try to know in detail.”

“.That much?”

“Yeah.”

At that answer, Vice President Kang Ji-hwan nodded.

If the president answers like that, it was clear he brought that new hire from no ordinary place.

“But shouldn’t we learn investment techniques from this friend?”

“Would he teach if we ask? Plus, even if he kindly explains, it’s not a level we can understand.”

President Hwang also once checked trading data wondering what algorithm Jin-ho uses to repeat buying and selling.

“But I couldn’t understand at all. What basis he uses to buy, what principles he has to sell. Others would’ve seen it as a newbie randomly trading following whatever feeling hits.”

“But all of that made profits?”

“Yeah. All of it. At this level, it’s beyond what you can follow just by knowing the theory.”

A one and only investment technique?

An investment method only one person in the world can understand.

Kang Ji-hwan loosened his tie slightly.

“A lot happened at the company while I was overseas.”

“So, did you get anything? How are the situations?”

“Isn’t everyone’s attention focused on Europe now? Greece has a repayment date coming soon, but they’re still showing no signs of repaying.”

“It won’t be a default, right?”

“That would be big trouble. They won’t do such crazy things. They’re not Russia or something. From what I looked into, it’s dangerous, but they’ll resolve it somehow.”

That was fortunate.

The whole world market is already in chaos because of China shock, so if Greece’s default is added to this, it would be a total crazy show.

“But President. This friend Jeong Jin-ho. His performance bonus this month will be tremendous, right? At least several tens of billions?”

Regardless of taxes, taking exactly 30% of profits, it was an amount ordinary office workers couldn’t touch even working their whole lives.

Our Jin-ho will have a headache calculating taxes in May.

“Ji-hwan. In your view, Jin-ho isn’t talent to keep at team leader level, right?”

“Of course not. He’s not someone to be at elite grade. Even now there’s talk because he got super-fast promoted. But with this return rate, it’s funnier to keep him at team leader level.”

That’s right.

The problem is above that is department head, but there’s no vacant department head position currently.

Then shall I make a new one this time?

“China really is China.”

“Right. Because it’s China, this is possible.”

China entered market stabilization with extreme regulation of stopping selling.

It would be unimaginable in other countries.

There are times when circuit breakers are triggered to briefly suspend trading, but stopping selling for a whopping 6 months!

Plus, they even mobilized sovereign wealth funds to inject capital, struggling to stabilize the market.

“If they were going to do this, they shouldn’t have regulated margin trading.”

“Still, they had to do it before it got later. But the problem is they didn’t think to slowly drain water and just exploded it all at once.”

Smiles bloom on team members’ faces.

“Phew. If the Team Leader hadn’t told us to quickly dump all volume then, we would’ve taken big losses.”

“Still, the price is still 10 times.”

“When we sold it was 20 times!”

Others might see we’re diligently holding team meetings today, but we’re actually not meeting, just having small talk.

Because right now we’ve completely withdrawn from the market and are just holding funds.

“As I mentioned before, those who want can enter the market even now.”

“I’ve decided to just stay still.”

“Me too. It’s a huge sum the Team Leader struggled to earn, how dare I.! Rather, if I do it, I’ll definitely lose it all.”

“Originally, when they meet that month’s performance, everyone withdraws funds and does nothing.”

If a team mostly met that month’s performance, that team comes to work and roughly checks the market, or doesn’t come to work at all and plays at home.

A reward for teams that met performance in advance.

Of course, if they want more performance, they can enter the market anytime, but usually they refrain because losing situations are more common.

‘I wasn’t doing anything either because no feeling strongly came.’

Why doesn’t feeling come?

Maybe it’s because of the amount.

The current amount I can manage is 250 billion.

When it was 5 billion, buying and selling didn’t greatly affect unless it was a small company. But trying to day trade with a whopping 250 billion, from that point I become one of the major forces, greatly affecting stock prices.

Think about it.

Funds of 250 billion repeatedly selling and buying in units of seconds.

To begin with, they can’t buy or sell all that volume, so prices become a mess.

“Then shall we rest a bit?”

“Oh. Really?”

“Yes. I know everyone was extremely nervous because of me. Rest and come back for mental stability.”

“Wow!”

Team members suddenly clapped.

Seems they were very bored sitting here.

But to jump in with earned money, the current market seems like they’ll lose everything if they enter wrong, so they were watching.

‘Should I rest after a while and game?’

Weekdays and weekends.

Until China shock came, I only worked without rest observing market situations.

I couldn’t properly play my favorite games because of pressure.

Let me rest this time and do accumulated game homework.

“Um. But.”

Then Deputy Lee Hye-rin cautiously spoke.

“We haven’t had a single team dinner yet.”

“Oh. Come to think of it.”

“Truly spectacular situations continued from the day Team Leader came, so we didn’t even think of dinners.”

Team members started exchanging glances.

Then those gazes soon reached me.

I rummaged through my wallet thinking of something that came to mind.

“Ah, here it is.”

“What’s that?”

I smiled and waved a card in front of team members.

“Corporate card.”

They say the ultimate dinner is omakase or whatever, but to me, beef seems best.

And only Korean beef!

As our guild master said, omakase would be painful because only fish I don’t eat comes out.

Though I’ve never been.

“Cheers!”

“Ah. We can’t just cheers. May I dare give a toast, Team Leader?”

“Yes. Section Chief. Please do.”

Section Chief Seo cleared his throat and raised his glass.

“Our Team Leader. One thing I did well in my life was joining this team. Isn’t there such a saying? People with different caliber have different actions. I think that’s exactly describing Team Leader. In that sense, Team Leader. Please cherish us, support us, encourage us, add to us, push us, worry about us, be concerned for us.”

“S-Section Chief. Th-that’s enough.”

“Ahem. Anyway, I’ll devote loyalty for life! Now. For our Team Leader Jeong Jin-ho!”

“For him!”

Drinking a glass of soju with well-cooked short ribs, it can’t be more delicious.

Beef was such soft meat.

Korean beef really is Korean beef.

Plus, maybe because it’s in Yeouido, everything was luxurious.

I felt sorry toward Mom and Dad for eating alone.

Next time I should bring my sister and parents too.

“Oh right. But listening earlier, other teams are all watching Greece. How will this turn out?”

“Hey. Talking about work again at this sacred dinner?”

“But we have nothing to talk about besides stocks. It’s also the most fun.”

“True. Money talk is the most fun in the world.”

I can talk about games too.

The problem is no matter how I look, no one seemed like they’d game.

“Well, it won’t go to default.”

“Probably not?”

“Being complacent like that, didn’t Russia suddenly declare default back then causing chaos?”

“Did the LTCM fund lose 4 billion dollars then? But that was possible because it’s Russia, right? Like China that just slammed trading regulations.”

Greece. Greece.

I saw it in research materials.

They have about 1.6 billion euros to repay to IMF, but even as the deadline approaches, there are no signs of resolution.

Greece already received bailouts twice.

Yet economic recovery speed was slow and debt problems were still serious.

“If they really declare default?”

“That’s ultimate crazy. The moment they default, it means they exit the eurozone too. Then European conflict intensifies, military tension and national security issues rise together.”

I looked at related articles on my phone while listening to team members.

Pointing out that if Greece, already having military conflict with Turkey over territorial issues, declares default, it would lead to weakened defense, and scenarios that severe European conflict could even spark war, etc.

But all were just extreme scenarios, the prediction that Greece would receive bailout again this time and not declare default was dominant.

“Ugh. Even here talking about work makes drinking less enjoyable. Let’s talk about other things. Everyone will get big performance bonuses this time, right? Thanks to our Team Leader. What will you do with it?”

“Ugh. What’s there to say? The thrilling feeling after closing all positions continues even now.”

“But performance bonuses haven’t come out yet. Plus quite a few days remain.”

“Anyway, Team Leader said he’ll hold without using funds. Then performance bonuses come out as is.”

“Should worry about taxes to pay in May first. They take half. Can’t spend carelessly.”

“Ugh. Even so, half. How bad.!”

Team members fell into happy imagination of what to do when performance bonuses come out while ordering and eating short ribs and alcohol freely.

But I couldn’t easily join the conversation.

“Team Leader. But what have you been looking at since earlier? Is something wrong at home.”

It wasn’t about family matters.

Since the middle of reading Greece-related articles, shivers were flowing enough to make my body tingle.

I hesitated then cautiously opened my mouth.

“.Should we also enter the market tomorrow?”

“What?!”

“Y-you said you’d hold funds for now?”

“Yes. I did but.”

To be safe, stopping here and resting is right.

Then performance bonuses will come out as Section Chief Seo said.

But like always searching for random reward items in games, am I also addicted to dopamine?

“Let’s try day trading after a while.”

At those words, team members’ eyes started shaking severely.

“With 250 billion.?”