Professional Stock Investor: Elite Perspectives on the Stock Market

Author: Pan Weirong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Professional Stock Traders—born from the congenitally underdeveloped Chinese stock market, they have weathered 14 years of storms. What is their survival mechanism? Not fully shareholders, not fully investors, not fully speculators, yet they have achieved the dream of getting rich in the treacherous stock market. How do they achieve victory against all odds? They are the elite group that has differentiated itself from the vast population of stock traders—the professional stock traders. In the context of rapid social transformation, how is their social status defined? In the midst of the capital market's major upheaval, how will they change? This book offers a fresh interpretation from the perspectives of sociology and socio-economics.
The congenitally underdeveloped Chinese stock market has already gone through 14 years of storms. Some love it, some hate it, but there is a group of people who are neither fully shareholders, nor fully investors, nor fully speculators, yet they quietly make a living as professional stock traders, achieving the dream of getting rich through the emerging and transforming stock market. This group is the elite of stock traders—the professional stock traders, who have differentiated themselves from the millions of stock traders. What is the survival mechanism of professional stock traders? What are their secrets to winning in the volatile market? After becoming elite in the stock market, how is their social status defined in the context of rapid social transformation? In the period of a new major upheaval in China's capital market, how will they change? This book provides a brand-new interpretation from the perspectives of sociology and socio-economics.