Chapter 19 Chapter 19 "Drawing from the Bottom" and "Static Braking"

Suppose, right now, there is a blazing fire in front of you, and there is a pot full of water on the fire.The flames were blazing, and the water in the pot was constantly boiling.So, do you have any way to stop the water in the pot from boiling? I am afraid that the first method that most people think of is to pour cold water into the pot.In fact, this is just a stopgap measure.The fire does not die down, and the cold water you pour into the pot will eventually turn into boiling water, and if you fail to pour the cold water, the boiling water will splash out of the pot and burn your body.It can be seen that this method is by no means a good strategy.In fact, the way to stop the water from boiling is very simple. You only need to remove the firewood under the pot, let the fire weaken until it goes out, and the water in the pot will calm down automatically.Moreover, firewood is not harmful to people, which can be said to be a good way to get twice the result with half the effort.As the saying goes: "It's better to draw the bottom of the pot to stop the boiling."

It is a sentence in the "Book of Wei" written by Wei Mu, a historian of the Northern Qi Dynasty.Later, it became the first strategy in the fourth set of melee strategies in "Thirty-Six Strategies": "If you lose your strength, eliminate your momentum, and counteract the image of your superiority." It means to fight against a powerful and unstoppable enemy , to avoid its sharp edge, weaken its momentum and combat power from the bottom, and subdue it with softness to overcome rigidity. "Drawing from the bottom of the pot" is used in wars, but it is a "pocket tactic".When the two sides are confronting each other and their swords are at war, avoid making the main attack from the front, and work hard from the back of the opponent, plotting from the side, pulling its hind legs, tearing down its backstage, and the enemy becomes a vent without knowing it. An angry ball, the result is naturally self-defeating.

The wonderful effect of this strategy is to hear silently, see invisible, infinite like heaven and earth, difficult to know like yin and yang, use the means of dark to bright, yin and yang to make the opponent fall into the art without realizing it.Sun Tzu said: "The emblem is so small that it is invisible; it is so divine that it is silent, so it can be the commander of the enemy." Commander means to be able to control the life and death of the enemy, just like the commanding god in the sky.That is to say, one has already grasped the initiative in a battle, and can confuse the enemy's will and control the enemy's actions. , and you can disarm others in one battle, wouldn't it be great!

During the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty in our country, in 154 BC, seven princes and kings headed by Wu Wang Liu Bi and Chu Wang Liu Wu launched a rebellion under the banner of "Zhu Chao Cuo, Qing Dynasty's side" in an attempt to overthrow the central government of the Han Dynasty. In the reign of the Han Dynasty, the rebels had seven kingdoms, and they were fierce. They first attacked Liang Guo, who was loyal to the central government of the Han Dynasty. After Han Jingdi got the news, he hurriedly appointed Zhou Yafu, the son of Zhou Bo, the famous founding general of the Western Han Dynasty, as Taiwei, and sent troops to rescue Liang Guo to quell the rebellion.Zhou Yafu is worthy of being a famous general, resourceful and resourceful.He believed that the Seven Kingdoms rebel army headed by Wu Chu had strong soldiers and a large number of people. It might be difficult to win a face-to-face confrontation with the rebel army.If the Han army could cut off the rebel army's food roads, the rebel army would have committed a rebellion and their morale would be unstable. After a long time, they would naturally be defeated, and the siege of Liang Guo would be automatically lifted.Therefore, instead of confronting the enemy head-on, he led the army to detour towards Xingyang.

Xingyang is an important military town, occupying the main road from east to west, with a granary on the left and an arsenal on the right. It is the main supply base for the rebels.After Zhou Yafu led the army to seize Xingyang, he ordered one of his generals to lead some troops to stand firm here, while he himself led the troops to retreat to Maoyi, and ordered his subordinates to densely deploy crossbowmen around the camp. If the rebels came to attack, they could only stick to the camp. Don't fight on your own. Liu Bi, king of Wu, and Liu Wu, king of Chu, were leading the rebels to storm the capital of Liang, when they suddenly received a report: "Zhou Yafu led the army to cut off our army's food and grass, and robbed our army of food." Liu Bi was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered: "Give up the attack Liang Guo, march to Maoyi, and fight Zhou Yafu to the death." However, when the rebels arrived at Maoyi, the Han army was ready.The rebels had been attacking for several days, but could not win. At this moment, the food and grass in the army were cut off, the morale of the army was shaken, and they had no intention of fighting again.Zhou Yafu seized this opportunity and ordered the entire Han army to attack. Hundreds of thousands of rebels scattered like birds and beasts. So far, the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was put down after three months.

It can be seen that this "drawing from the bottom" is actually the most vicious conspiracy applied on the battlefield. Similarly, this strategy still has its place in the market, political arena, and even stock investment. For those investors who are new to the stock market, inexperienced and lack of sufficient funds, the most headache is probably the volatility of stock prices.Indeed, the stock price is like a child's face, maybe it will change at any time, so what's going on? We know that the actual transaction price of a stock in the market is called the stock price.Like general commodity prices, it is also determined by the relationship between supply and demand.In theory, if the supply exceeds demand, the stock price will fall, and if the demand exceeds the flood, the stock price will rise.

However, the process of determining stock prices is not exactly the same as that of commodity prices.When the demand for general goods increases, the price will rise immediately, and the profits of manufacturers will also increase. As such, producers will try to increase production. After the supply increases, prices will fall again.In short, when the demand for commodities in general decreases, prices fall, and the production of these commodities decreases.New prices are created as a result of changes in supply and demand. As far as stocks are concerned, when news that is beneficial to bulls suddenly appears, the demand will increase, and the stock price will also rise. However, because investors often have the psychology of buying up and selling down, the supply of stocks at this time will not only decrease It will increase, but it may decrease. As a result, the stock price will inevitably rise sharply.

On the contrary, when news that is beneficial to short positions suddenly appears, the demand will decrease and the stock price will also fall, but at this time, the supply of stocks will not decrease, but will increase instead. As a result, the stock price will inevitably plummet. It can be seen that the change of stock price is mainly determined by the change of supply and demand relationship. Therefore, the factors that affect the change of supply and demand relationship are also the factors that affect the change of stock price.There are many factors that affect stock price changes, mainly including: changes in the economic situation, adjustments in oil prices, interest rate rises and falls, changes in fiscal and financial policies, changes in the life cycle of industries, changes in corporate profits, wars, and so on.These factors may appear alone or at the same time. They may only affect the stocks of a certain industry or a certain company, or they may affect all stock markets in the world.

If the above-mentioned factors affecting stock price changes are summed up, they can be roughly divided into three categories: one is the factors affecting the global market; the other is the factors affecting a certain industry; the third is the factors affecting a certain company.That is to say, changes in stock prices can be summarized into three factors, one is from the market, called market factors; the second is from the industry, called industry factors; the third is from the company's characteristics, called company factor. Through the above analysis, we can see that the factors that affect the stock price exist objectively, and, for these factors, a single stock investor has no ability to control them.It is for this reason that investing in stocks itself has the possibility of losing money.We call the possibility of losing money risk.For those small and medium-sized investors with meager profits, there is no doubt that their ability to bear risks is very low.Once there is an abnormality in the stock market, it is in the process of changing hands and rotations, and the trend of the stock market will be "jumping from east to west" and "going up and down". grasp.They often worry that after buying stocks, the rising momentum of the stock prices in their hands stops or falls, while the stocks that they did not buy start to rise again.At this time, because most people who often enter and exit the stock exchange are easily affected by emotions, they will make unwise decisions.For example, when stocks are in rotation and the market is rising from east to west, if you adopt the method of chasing up or follow the main force in and out, you are likely to buy stocks that are about to stop or turn around.The result is bound to be the same as we mentioned earlier: "Stop boiling soup", exhausted and thankless.

So, for small and medium-sized investors, is there a method that can overcome rigidity with softness and "draw salary from the bottom of the pot" as opposed to "raising the soup to stop the boiling" during the period of stock market fluctuations? Yes, this is the "static braking" method.That is to say, investors choose to buy and hold stocks with a small increase or whose value has not been adjusted. When other similar stocks rise, more people will naturally discover the potential of this unmoved stock, which is the so-called business saying , "Everyone does it, I don't do it." "A tree facing the wind cannot bear fruit firmly." A safer and more feasible method.

If the investor's financial strength allows, he can buy several units of various stocks.If investors find it difficult to choose stocks and are worried that they cannot buy favorable stocks, they can adopt the method of casting a net, that is, buying most or all common stocks that are listed on the blackboard and traded every day, and only buy one unit of each.Investors who use this method can set a principle by themselves, sell the stocks that have risen to a certain level, and buy back the stocks that have fallen to a certain level. Profit possible.However, you must pay attention to the following points when using this method of investment: First, the economic boom, the general trend is rising, although the stock market is one after another; The third is not to buy too unpopular stocks.This kind of stock operation is not easy to buy, let alone sell. After buying, part of the funds will be frozen. For small and medium investors, this kind of practice should be avoided. Those who engage in static braking need to have deep cultivation, such as not panic in the world, going in and out of cold fluorine to cultivate the artistic conception of not moving, etc.It is true that stock trading is based on the word "profit", but the internal cultivation of the manager cannot be neglected. Only Jiang Taigong has the bearing of sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, in order to "draw salary from the bottom of the pot". If you have achieved some success in stock market investment, accumulated a certain amount of capital, and then want to beat your opponents in the stock market competition, you can also use this strategy.The opponent is powerful, and it is inevitable that both sides will suffer.You should adopt differentiation, disintegration, and time-based steps to gradually weaken his strength, and when the quantitative change leads to a qualitative change, launch a decisive attack.This is often used in commercial warfare. Before liberation, there was a bank in Shanghai that attracted many depositors. The boss was proud and domineering because of this, but he aroused the hatred of a colleague, A, who conspired to bring him down.X did not hesitate to sacrifice more than 100,000 yuan in living expenses, and asked his subordinates to go to the bank to open demand deposits. There were more than a thousand accounts. In less than two weeks, these depositors collectively donated money during the same period.Didn’t you see that Pan Ting, the banker in Cao Yu’s famous play, was also the gang leader Yu Baye who was forced to ruin his reputation by using this method of withdrawing money from the bottom of the pot? As mentioned earlier, the American financial circles attacked Hong Kong in the 2000s, and they also used this trick against HSBC.They first took advantage of the fact that Hong Kong's stock market dissemination information system at that time remained unchanged, and purchased a large number of HSBC stocks.It caused HSBC stock to turn around several times and became a symbol of wealth in people's hands.Immediately afterwards, the Americans sold all HSBC stocks to the market within two days, and made various rumors, such as HSBC Bank's poor operating conditions and inability to withdraw stocks, and so on.For a while, the stock price of HSBC plummeted, and many depositors who did not know the truth withdrew their funds one after another, almost emptying their deposits.HSBC is in its biggest trouble ever.If it weren't for the help of the People's Bank of China, HSBC would definitely have been defeated by the Americans' strategy of "drawing wages from the bottom". It can be seen that "drawing wages from the bottom" is not only an umbrella to prevent small and medium investors from falling into disaster in the stock market, but also a killing knife for stock market tycoons to defeat their opponents. Maybe this is the two sides of things, right?