Just the next day after Jeltsin's speech, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee issued a statement to the outside world. Comrade Jeltsin no longer serves as secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee and alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. This statement does not explain the reason why Jeltsin was removed from office, but basically everyone who cares about this matter knows it. Jeltsin is about to step down.

On the night of the meeting, Seriosha made a special trip to visit Jeltsin's home. The two talked in Yeltsin's study for two hours. No one knew what they were talking about. When Seriosha left Jeltsin's house, Jeltsin personally brought him into the car. There was no look of depression or annoyance on his face, but he felt much more relaxed.

Soon after, the Mediterranean Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics, announced that it would retake the New Town Project of the Workers from the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, and Jeltsin will continue to serve as the head of the project. For most Moscow citizens, this is the only good news that came after Jeltsin lost power. This move by the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics means that they and Ligachev are not the same person, and they support Jeltsin with their own practical actions.

Given that Gorbachev still has supreme status, Seriosha planned to wait for a while for Jeltsin to go to the United States to temporarily avoid the limelight in the country. However, his crazy actions at the Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee have made him famous overseas, and many political critics in Western countries praised Jeltsin's brave behavior. But Seriosha knew that Jeltsin had actually changed nothing.

Just as the Soviet Union was discussing its next annual economic and political reform goals, Seriosha's high-frequency trading system was coming to an end. In order to maximize the advantage of speed, Seriosha placed the entire high-frequency trading computer room in a building located on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Center. At the same time, it also adopted the fiber access method. Seriosha even asked Eva to open the highest transmission permission for this line. Even if the entire network is in a traffic jam, the data of Colombian Bank can still be unblocked on the Internet.

The entire project is coming to an end, and now the final test is left. In order to test the degree of automation of this system, with Mikhail's approval, Colombia Bank has opened up some funding authority to this system for testing in real environments. It is already Friday, and Colombia Bank's high-frequency trading project testers are preparing for the last virtual environment test. Because the test program will take about a week to run on the upright weekend, and there were no serious problems exposed in the previous tests, so there were not many developers staying in the computer room.

The goal of this test is to verify how much profit the entire system can make when the market falls. This is a regular test. The program will be tested in the real data environment of the New York Stock Exchange, but there is no real transaction because the network has not switched to the real network environment. After the test engineer set all the parameters of the entire program, he couldn't wait to get off work. For more than half a year, almost all members of the project team have not taken a vacation for a long time. So after completing the work as required, the last few testers also left the company early. At this moment, they have begun to think about where to go to relax this weekend.

However, when these people left, no one noticed that they were not connecting to the test network environment, but the real network environment.

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In the No. 1 Building in Liberty Square, New York, not far from here, the Solomon Brothers stock trading and sales department, on the 40th floor, is quietly waiting for the closing. In the spacious office, customers will call from time to time.

At this time, in a cube by the window, senior broker Murphy was communicating with his clients on the phone and explaining work issues. To be honest, being a securities broker is not an easy job, because many times Murphy cannot answer questions raised by clients, such as "Why did the stocks you recommended make me lose so much money?", "Why did you tell me that the market is very good, but I lost so much?", and such questions.

Whenever she encounters such problems, Murphy always racks her brains to weave some ambiguous words to deal with customers. Although his position is a securities broker, his real job is to ask customers to hand over the money to the Solomon Brothers Company. After all, this is a sales job with a low threshold. Although she works in Manhattan, where every inch of land is valuable, she wears a custom suit of tens of thousands of dollars, a handmade Swiss gold watch, and drives a Ferrari sports car worth more than one hundred thousand dollars. However, Murphy actually doesn't understand what is going on in most cases.

Now Murphy is communicating with two customers at the same time, and now the other three guest meetings are waiting online. Murphy is so busy that he is too busy. On the computer display screen in front of him, the latest stock quotes are constantly flashing, and Murphy has not even had time to take a look.

Murphy finally settled his customer. He raised his head and glanced at the quote on the monitor. He was about to pick up the mug and take a sip of coffee. At this moment, the Dow Jones index at the top of the quotation bar suddenly changed.

"Ah!" Murphy quickly put down his mug and looked at it. In just a blink of an eye, the Dow Jones index actually rubbed more than 20 points from positive to negative. Before Murphy could react, Dow Jones fell again by more than 20 points. Next, the Dow Jones index began its own plunge journey. Within just a few minutes, the index's husband expanded to 80 points.

At this moment, the phone ringing of Solomon Brothers, which was already noisy, was one after another. It was a call from customers who heard the stock price fell. But Murphy didn't know what was going on, and he didn't know how to explain to his customers.
Chapter completed!