The reason why the operation was delayed for five days was because the Swiss National Bank did not dare to provide William with a guarantee. 4.86 billion USD was too much. Even if they only used 4 billion USD and used a safe 3 times leverage, the short would reach 12 billion USD.
Although William did not tell the National Bank the specific target of the short, even an idiot could guess that William's target was the Valentine Group.
When most people were optimistic about the Valentine Group, the Swiss National Bank did not have the guts to provide a guarantee for William. Even the CEO of the National Bank, Qiang Grace, who had always been optimistic about William, did not say anything this time.
Therefore, after receiving the confirmation on Sunday, William directly transferred 4.86 billion USD to the Swiss Bastian Bank, which was controlled by the Priory of Sion.
He did not wait for the National Bank to notify him and directly transferred the money. He had completely offended the National Bank. Therefore, the next day, there was news on the market that William was going to stake everything on the Valentine Group.
However, this kind of news did not hurt William. Instead, it made him happy. He was thinking about how to enter the market reasonably so that the stock market would not investigate him with insider information. Now, not only was the reason given to him directly,
It was also more conducive to the rapid settlement of the futures contract. Because of this, the National Bank's reputation inevitably fell. Not long after, there was news of the resignation of the board of directors. Anyone with a discerning eye would know that this person was the one who resigned.
After the 4.86 billion USD was transferred to the Bastian Bank, it took two days to prepare the contract and leverage. The new Monday was 8: 59 am Greenwich time and 9: 59 am Switzerland time.
William, who had personally flown to Switzerland, stood in the VIP room of the Bastian Bank and said to the general manager of the bank, Andre Vernet, "2 billion USD, 10 times leverage, the contract will be settled in three days. Let's begin, Andre."
"Three days is a wise choice, Elder Devonshire," Andre said with a smile.
"Haha, I understand that money is endless and I can't offend the capitalists." After saying that, William narrowed his eyes and looked at Andre.
"Sorry, sir, I spoke out of turn."
That's right, William was now an official elder of the Hermit Order, a title that he had accepted less than three days ago.
After William helped the Priory of Sion gain control of the Swiss Bastian Bank, he was chosen as the fifth Secret Elder by the four Elders of the Priory of Sion.
To put it bluntly, the Hidden Elder was a person who wielded military force. For hundreds of years, this position had been held by the Devonshire family. It was not until Henry Devonshire's unexpected death that the position had been vacant for ten years.
The reason why William accepted this position was because three days ago, when Andre went to London to look for him, he handed him a list of members of the Hermit Order with both hands. Upon seeing the list, William's heart couldn't help but thump.
After scanning his phone, Sunday reported the information of everyone on the list through his earpiece. After listening to the report, William suddenly realized that his vision was still too low. The Hermit Order that he previously looked down on was the real treasure trove.
Over a hundred of the world's top 50 university professors, a few hundred artists, philosophers, economists, bankers and other top talents.
According to Andre, as the Hidden Elder, the Hermit Order would provide William with any talents he needed as a reward for being the most important Martial Elder.
Of course, this employment relationship was a secret, whether or not it was made public was up to William himself. At the same time, William would also need to provide the necessary remuneration for these talents.
The only pity was that there weren't many people on the list whose main achievements were in science. This was probably due to the natural conflict between science and theology.
After apologizing, Andre Vernet respectfully nodded to William, then loudly called out to the three middle-aged men in the trading room, "Enter."
"Understood." Three steady yet excited voices replied.
With Sunday's help, the three Priory of Sion members only needed to give a specific task, and the rest of Sunday would be able to complete it as quickly as possible.
At 9 o 'clock sharp in London, as soon as the market opened, a large amount of funds to short Valentine Group suddenly appeared in the stock market. This made the investors and investors who had been waiting for William to make a move for several days to cheer.
In many people's eyes, William was here to give them money.
The morning passed, and the investors and investors who were paying attention to this matter became more and more shocked as they watched the contracts continuously being signed. In less than two hours in the morning, the amount of transactions had already reached more than 18 billion USD.
As long as someone made a bet with William, the contract would be signed in less than ten seconds. The momentum of sweeping everything away made everyone's heart jump.
Those who took over William's short contracts were gloating at first, but when the 20 billion USD contract was officially signed, the stock price suddenly began to fluctuate violently.
With a little thought, everyone could understand that someone was following William and starting to short the company.
With a quick check, they quickly found out that many telecommunications and Internet service companies, and some idle funds had begun to enter the market.
Although the amount of shorting each of these people or companies was not large, there were many of them. All the telecommunications and Internet service companies in the world couldn't wait for Valentine Group to go bankrupt immediately.
Now that William had taken the lead and looked like he was going to win, the communication companies and internet service companies that had been forced into a corner and were either dead or alive were willing to fork out tens of millions of dollars. They still had the determination and money to bet on William's victory.
The desperate short fight made the bulls surprised, suspicious, and anxious. The investors began to wonder if William had a secret trump card in his hand that could deal a fatal blow.
No one was a fool, and no one would think that William, who invested 20 billion USD to short the company, would be a fool. Not to mention that William still had 2.86 billion USD as a deposit. In order to make William lose all his money, the stock price of Valentine Group would have to rise by at least 15%.
The bottom line of 15% was actually not that high, so William, who had long been prepared, would not give his opponent a chance to fight back, let alone give the madman Valentine the time and opportunity to take revenge on him.
When the market was closed at noon, William called Catherine and only said, "Begin." He hung up the phone. Then, the Director of the American Secret Service, Lynn Jacob, received an encrypted video. The source of the video was Catherine, England's Minister of Security.
Lynn Jacob clicked on the video and saw a very advanced laboratory. More than a dozen people in white coats with closed helmets appeared in the video.
A person who looked like the leader stepped forward and said, "Sorry, for security reasons, we have to hide our identity. Today, we are going to expose the conspiracy of Valentine Group."
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