Chapter 17: Snatching Prices

Chen Wei was relatively low-key during his time at university.

His family background was average, while some of his classmates were children of officials or wealthy families, and others were from urban working-class backgrounds.

Hasn't there been a saying from some expert that goes like this, "It's difficult for children from poor families to rise to the top!"?

At Chen Wei's school, this situation was quite evident.

There were students like Chen Wei, who came from rural backgrounds, but they were few. Out of the forty-two students in his class, only about ten came from rural areas, and several of them were not from poor families.

Because of this, Chen Wei inevitably felt a sense of inferiority in his class.

While other classmates often went out together to eat, drink, sing, or travel, Chen Wei would either stay alone in the library reading or study alone in the classroom.

His relationship with his classmates wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly close either.

After reading through the chat records in the group, Chen Wei put his phone back in his pocket and didn't say anything in the group.

If Liu Jia called him later, he would attend the wedding. If not, then so be it; he wouldn't force himself to join the event.

After sleeping for a while at home, Chen Wei arrived at the company early once again.

Zhou Yi was even earlier than him.

Not just Zhou Yi, several colleagues had also arrived early.

Chen Wei was somewhat puzzled, wondering what was happening today.

"Good morning, Chen Ge!" Wang Zhaoguo greeted enthusiastically as he stood up.

Chen Wei smiled faintly, nodded in response, and didn't say much.

Sitting at his desk, he turned on his computer, glanced at Zhou Yi beside him, smiled slightly, and said, "You're here early today!"

Zhou Yi frowned, grunted in acknowledgment, and continued reading the pre-market news.

Chen Wei didn't mind.

He also started reading the pre-market news.

Before nine o'clock, almost all of the twenty-plus traders in their office had arrived.

Chen Wei was even more surprised, unable to understand why everyone was so early today.

"How come everyone's here so early today?" he murmured.

"It's all because of you!" Zhou Yi said, somewhat annoyed.

"What's that got to do with me?" Chen Wei asked, puzzled.

"What do you think? You've been making over ten thousand for two days in a row, and now everyone's pumped up! There's a saying that goes, 'The terrifying thing isn't that there are so many people better than you, but that those better people work even harder than you do!' You, the big shot making over ten thousand every day, coming in so early, us little losers can't afford to be late!" Zhou Yi said sarcastically.

Chen Wei suddenly realized and said, "Oh, I see. But haven't you heard another saying? 'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.' But that one percent inspiration is the most important. So, coming in early doesn't necessarily mean you'll make money. It depends on whether you have... inspiration."

With that remark, Zhou Yi was almost speechless with anger and retorted, "You're just showing off! If you're so capable, why don't you make another ten thousand today?"

Chen Wei chuckled and said, "Whether I can make another ten thousand or not, I dare not say. But if there's a good opportunity during trading hours, I'll give you a shout, so you can make some money with me."

Zhou Yi snorted and didn't say anything more.

In fact, Chen Wei wasn't overflowing with kindness; mainly, after activating his skill, shouting out to Zhou Yi would allow him to gain more experience.

Of course, it still depended on the opportunity. If it was the kind of opportunity that only he could take advantage of, he wouldn't just call Zhou Yi over to share the profit.

At half past nine, the stock market opened.

Chen Wei immediately switched to look at Casi.

Sure enough, those big orders from yesterday were still there, with one thousand five hundred lots each at 4.30, 4.40, and 4.50.

It seemed like there would be another opportunity with this stock today!

Chen Wei didn't plan to look for other stocks anymore; he focused on watching Casi.

Zhou Yi was also watching Casi.

At this time, the left bid price was 4.20, and the right ask price was 4.30, similar to yesterday. Occasionally, there were bulls transacting at 4.30.

However, the bids on the left weren't as determined as they were yesterday.

Ten minutes passed, and they were still at the 4.20 price level.

Chen Wei frowned. It seemed like the momentum was weaker today!

But thinking about it, yesterday they had taken out all the three layers of big orders on the ask side, even pushing it up to five hundred lots, and yet, it was still knocked down by a single candlestick, and three layers of big ask orders were added afterwards!

In this situation, few would dare to mess with those big orders at 4.30.

Chen Wei thought for a moment and directly placed two hundred lots of short orders at 4.30.

After all, he had a skill; even if the big orders at 4.30 were eaten up, and the stock price broke through, he could still activate his skill.

Zhou Yi also sensed that this stock was a bit weak today and hesitated whether to place a few short orders.

Seeing Chen Wei place two hundred lots of short orders, Zhou Yi stopped hesitating and followed suit with fifty lots.

Soon, their short orders started to get filled, trickling in slowly.

They were not in a hurry and waited patiently.

At this moment, Wang Zhaoguo exclaimed, "Chen Ge, the big orders on the right side of Casi are still there. Should we mess with them?"

Before Chen Wei could speak, Zhou Yi said, "What's the point? I've already placed short orders! If you're not afraid of death, then go ahead!"

"Huh? Short orders? Really?" Wang Zhaoguo was a bit confused, standing up and coming over to see if Zhou Yi had really placed short orders.

Chen Wei was speechless!

Was this guy single-minded?

They had been bullish yesterday, so they had to be bullish today as well? Didn't he want to check the market conditions?

Wang Zhaoguo came over, glanced at Zhou Yi's screen, and indeed saw that he had placed short orders, and quite a few had been filled already. He muttered, "I'm dizzy. You really placed short orders, Zhou Ge? What about you, Chen Ge?"

Saying that, he came to Chen Wei's side and saw that Chen Wei had placed even more.

Wang Zhaoguo finally confirmed that Zhou Yi wasn't tricking him and hurried back to his seat to place ten lots of short orders at 4.30.

At this moment, Chen Wei saw that there were suddenly many more orders at 4.30.

Even the order book showed that someone was hiding orders at 4.29, trying to get in!

"Damn, who's hiding orders at 4.29?" Zhou Yi cursed angrily!

It was obvious that it was someone from their side trying to get in.

"It's you, who's so shameless? Snatching from our own people?"

"Whose order is at 4.29? Quickly cancel it! It's too damn shameless!"

"We're all placing orders at 4.30. If everyone lines up to enter, and you snatch like this, in the end, we'll all be at a loss!"

Others were also angry and shouting.

As a result, instead of canceling the 4.29 order, even the 4.28 order came out...

Chen Wei was speechless!

Shaking his head wryly, it was indeed true that with a big forest, all sorts of birds could be found.