Golden Experience

Capitalists were always impeccably dressed and unfailingly polite. They showed the public their best side, to the point that many not-so-bright people mistakenly believed capital itself was just as "polite."

Capital was never polite. That was merely one of the methods they used to disguise themselves, like predators lurking in the darkness. They might even evolve organs that looked extremely fragile to attract the attention of other creatures, then kill those curious enough to approach in one decisive strike.

In a brightly lit room, traders were rapidly operating a variety of different accounts.

To swallow Every Moment Company, the people here had borrowed thousands of stock accounts from brokerage firms for their operations.

Yes, brokerage firms did this all the time. Their clients authorized the firms to manage their accounts on their behalf, including buying and selling.

That also meant that when necessary, brokerage firms could operate those accounts without their users' consent.

Buy, or sell.

There had been quite a few scandals like this in previous years. For example, a client took a fancy to a certain stock and believed it would rise.

But the brokerage firm disagreed. So when the client asked them to buy it, they did not actually buy it. They merely pretended to.

Once the stock fell, they would tell those clients about the value and importance of cutting their losses in time.

As soon as the client agreed to cut their losses, they would use various means to transfer the money in the client's account into their own account.

In Bu Peien, this was called the "Black Market Trading." It was not a financial transaction in the true sense, but a false transaction in which every procedure was fabricated.

But brokerage firms could not guess correctly every time. If they guessed wrong, they had