Especially on the Monday of the third week of May, the market opened with a six-point drop, and almost all of his stocks hit limit down. He was fully invested with leverage.
One limit down, and all his profits from the previous days were gone.
Fortunately, the next day saw a slight recovery. Another limit down, and he'd be bankrupt, deep in debt.
He felt like the market was out to get him, always giving him a taste of success for two days and then slicing down.
After all that hard work, he realized he wasn't making a fraction of what he expected, and sometimes he even lost a bit.
The market also seemed aggressive in its rises, but after turning this way and that, it ended up down again.
Only the trading volume had never shrunk.
He's been desperately learning related knowledge recently, as investors generally believe as long as there's trading volume, the bull market isn't over.
