A Life in the Stock Market: Four Friends Take on the Market

In the summer of 2015, four finance graduates who had shared a dorm set off in different directions, yet stayed closely connected through video calls every night at nine. On their screens were rental apartments scattered across Shanghai; facing them were four young faces, sharing stock tickers, workplace frustrations, and dreams of Lujiazui. Over the next ten years, Wang Lin's composure, Zhao Xu's sharpness, Li Hao's dependability, and Sun Lei's rationality clashed and blended amid the ups and downs of stock charts. They went from entry-level finance workers to Lujiazui office professionals, then leaped from their comfort zone into the turbulent world of full-time trading. The anxiety of chasing rallies and selling into dips, arguments over late-night market reviews, and the strain of unrealized losses in their accounts: every setback tested the strength of their friendship. This is about more than stock trading. It is the story of four ordinary people investing ten years of their youth in a market where desire and fear intertwine, in a long journey of trust, growth, and self-worth. They bought not only stocks, but one another's dreams; what they held on to was not merely their positions, but the sincerity they had shared since their college days. When their ten-year promise came due, the numbers in their accounts had borne witness to a miracle. But more moving than the rising wealth curve were the four faces still standing shoulder to shoulder, and the words that had never changed: “Nine tonight, same place. Don't be late.” Open this book and witness the story of four brothers, a bond forged in the stock market and worth more than wealth.