Target: Dalong Baili

[Stock name: Dalong Baili, expected increase: 80%.]

[Logic 1: This stock mainly operates in Titanium Dioxide, an inorganic chemical pigment widely used in coatings, ink, papermaking, plastics and rubber, synthetic fibers, and ceramics. Product prices are currently close to production costs, while the stock price is also at a historic low. As demand recovers, it will usher in a new round of cyclical price increases.]

[Logic 2: Because the Titanium Dioxide industry has remained at low prices for a long time, many companies have already gone bankrupt or suspended production. Big data discovered that Dalong Baili's executives had close contact with another leading company in the Titanium Dioxide industry. The two companies were very likely to merge and restructure.]

In Lin Qiye's impression, restructuring meant a massive surge. Still, he was a little curious. How did Intelligent AI know such confidential information?

"Didn't you say you couldn't do anything illegal? Where did these messages come from?"

[They came from public internet data. Both sides communicated through anonymous accounts on a chemical industry forum. Although each exchange contained only fragmented information, big data aggregation and analysis could still reconstruct the truth.]

[Their anonymous accounts did not actually keep them secret. Through certain traces, I found the real identities of both sides.]

That was incredible. Those self-important human business elites would never have imagined that an Intelligent AI was secretly investigating them.

Under big data analysis, the two men had no secrets left.

Lin Qiye took out his phone.

"Uncle Li, I found a target."

"That fast? Come to Mingtai Securities' Tianxing Road Securities Branch. I'll be waiting for you in the private client room on the second floor."

Lin Qiye ended the call, put his Laptop back into his backpack and slung it over his shoulder, then put on his Bluetooth earbuds and left the Library.

After arriving at the Tianxing Road Securities Branch, Lin Qiye asked one of the staff in the trading hall on the first floor and was soon led upstairs.

Clearly, Li Xiongye was a premium VIP client of this branch. They had specially provided him with a spacious private client room.

It contained a full set of office equipment, several large-screen computers, even a reception sofa and a two-meter-long tea table.

Li Xiongye was chatting with someone, while the other person attentively poured him tea.

A staff member knocked on the door. "Manager Li, Manager Fang, this person says he has something to—"

Li Xiongye interrupted, "I know. Go get back to work."

The staff member left. Li Xiongye eagerly ushered Lin Qiye into the private client room and closed the door behind him.

He also introduced the other person in the room.

"This is Manager Fang from the Tianxing Road Securities Branch. I was just telling him about you. Manager Fang has been very curious about you."

The man stood up, his manner arrogant.

"When it comes to investing, gender and age don't matter. Experience and decision-making ability are what count. Manager Li said you made a huge profit on your first investment. There are plenty of cases like that in our circle. Youngster, don't get cocky. Only those who can survive in the stock market for the long term are true winners."

Clearly, he was highly experienced and had watched countless investors rise and fall. He did not think Lin Qiye was anything special.

Lin Qiye did not particularly care. There was no need to prove himself to an outsider.

He said nothing, but Li Xiongye grew a little anxious.

"Didn't you say you found a target? Why aren't you telling us?"

Manager Fang understood and excused himself with a smile. "You two talk. I'll go handle some company matters."

After Manager Fang left, Lin Qiye repeated the information Intelligent AI had compiled.

Li Xiongye listened with great interest. As a businessman, he keenly sensed the potential profit in this information.

"Titanium Dioxide? I heard about it from a friend. It seems the industry has been in terrible shape these past two years. Several companies went under. In business, extremes always reverse. The market space left behind by failed companies is enough to sustain the remaining major firms. With less competition, they may be able to raise product prices and create a new price cycle."

Li Xiongye paused, then asked hesitantly, "But isn't it a little rash to conclude that these companies will restructure? A merger can make them bigger and stronger, sure, but would the acquired side really be willing to give up management control?"

Naturally, Lin Qiye could not tell him that the two sides had already been communicating in secret.

He touched his Bluetooth earbud and replied, "This is fundamental analysis. A turnaround from distress, combined with restructuring expectations—the probability is high."

Compared with fundamentals, Li Xiongye was more interested in technical analysis. He hurriedly pulled up Dalong Baili's K-line chart.

"Technically, it's a typical slow decline. It's fallen from a high of 35 to 17 now, already cut in half. I don't see any capital flowing in either. Xiao Lin, when do we buy?"

"Don't rush. It's not an investment opportunity yet."

Though disappointed that they could not build a position immediately, Li Xiongye still opened his trading account and showed Lin Qiye its status.

It was nothing short of miserable.

He had originally invested a total of ten million, but now had just over four million left. No wonder he was so obsessed with trading stocks. He was trying to save himself.

After that,

Lin Qiye practically became a regular in the private client room. Every day, he watched stock movements, listened to Intelligent AI's analytical feedback, and occasionally wandered downstairs to observe the daily stock-trading lives of the elderly, middle-aged men, and women.

At the same time, he incorporated this real-world research material into Intelligent AI's training.

"From your perspective, analyze the people downstairs who trade stocks."

[They should be called stock investors, meaning the group that engages in long-term stock investment or trading. Their living conditions mainly depend on stock market fluctuations and investment results.]

[When I say living conditions, I don't only mean wealth. I also mean their mental state.]

[When the stock market rises, they feel excited and satisfied. Their income increases, and their quality of life improves as well;]

[But when the stock market falls, they feel troubled and depressed. Reduced income also affects their quality of life.]

[Furthermore, many stock investors spend enormous amounts of time and energy studying market trends, trying to develop a decision-making system they believe is useful. In reality, they rely more on luck.]

[Overall, stock investors' living conditions are uncertain and volatile. It is a very unhealthy lifestyle.]

Intelligent AI's analysis was remarkably thorough. It had not even hatched yet, and this filled Lin Qiye with anticipation for the future.

Meanwhile, Li Xiongye had not been idle either. He had his own network of connections and spent every day making calls in the private client room.

Through referrals from acquaintances, he really did get in touch with several professionals in the Titanium Dioxide industry.

What these people said was no different from Lin Qiye's analysis. The industry's prolonged slump had even made them extremely pessimistic.

After waiting for three consecutive trading days, Dalong Baili suddenly released an earnings forecast before the market opened.

"'The company expects a quarterly loss of thirty million.'"

The company's operations had already been poor, and now it had suddenly been stamped with the label of losses. The market panicked.

At the opening, it immediately gapped down three points, and sell orders kept hammering the price lower.

Li Xiongye stared at the market screen and asked, "Do we buy it now?"