The Showdown on Wall Street

Next up: Hong Kong Stories Stories of Hong Kong’s upper class during the Republican era. Blurb: In 2009, Hailey Karadzic topped Time magazine’s Person of the Year list. People had grown used to calling her the King of Wall Street. The routes of her private jets had kept the FBI awake all night. Her trading strategies had been copied by hedge funds around the world. Her name had appeared at audit and compliance meetings in more than thirty countries. But at the very beginning, right at the start, Hailey had simply been peddling junk stocks at a third-rate shell company. ** Content warnings and notes: [The female lead is not a good person. She is a cold-blooded capitalist with multiple relationships. The story contains extensive financial content. The career plot takes up a large proportion, while romance is limited. The female lead has many boyfriends, but that doesn’t mean there are many scenes depicting her relationships. Western setting. Neither the female nor the male lead is a conventional romantic lead.] [The female lead’s career has little in common with real Wall Street work. This is a fictional wish-fulfillment story, not a historical account. Any real-world elements will be explained, but this does not represent everyday work on Wall Street, in finance, or at a regular job.] [Set in an alternate version of Wall Street in the 1990s, but incorporating some technologies and events from the ten years before and after. All trading scenes are made up by the author. They are inspired by reality but are not guaranteed to be completely accurate.] Cover image source: A Bird’s-Eye View of Wall Street (1919) · Christopher R. W. Nevinson (British, 1889–1946) Theme: 365 investment tips