Abyss of the Candlestick Chart

Set against the A-share market from 2015 to 2025, this novel follows Chen Mo over the course of a decade. Once a software engineer, he is plunged into a stock-market crash after being wiped out by leveraged trading. He goes on to become a private equity researcher, expose the secrets behind market manipulation, and lead efforts to protect investors. Across five volumes, the story focuses in turn on the leverage frenzy, the mysteries of market manipulation, the quantitative investing crackdown, the battle over the registration-based IPO system, and the restructuring of the regulatory landscape. It lays bare the stock market’s zero-sum nature and the greed and fear of human nature, while depicting the market’s transformation from unchecked growth to orderly development. The plot and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental.