Of course, this was only Dahlia testing the waters. After confirming that the market was performing as expected, roughly matching the historical financial data the two of them had collected before leaving the other world, she had already set her sights on the rebound from early March through October of the following year.
Her goal was to turn this $185,000 into at least $300,000 in capital first, then max out her leverage on long positions when the index hit bottom in early March of the following year.
Neither Nick nor Dahlia was a professional trader.
Compared with Nick, who had crammed most of his securities knowledge at the last minute, Dahlia was relatively more experienced. She had once earned hefty commissions from the FSB and invested them in the European and American securities markets to pad her private stash.
Still, profiting from the financial markets remained highly risky, especially with this sort of highly leveraged speculation. They could do it once or twice, but not keep doing it.
For them, the 2010 World Cup was the main event. Uruguay, the dark horse that reached the semifinals, and Spain, the eventual champion, were the real keys to turning a fortune.
In this world's 2008, there were plenty of ways to make money legally, and big money at that. But for Nick, there seemed to be only one way to improve his abilities as quickly as possible: work hard at solving cases to charge his Golden Finger.
Though it might have been somewhat immoral to think this way, he had never been so eager for some vicious serial killers who had remained hidden for years to turn up in Portland, where he had lived for twenty years.
Yet expectations often ran contrary to reality. The more he thought this way, the simpler