A 97-year-old Stock Master

During the past two weeks, many Chinese investors have been in great trouble with the continual stock market plunge. As the media are flooded with unpredictable information and a series of policies to save the market, an amazing senior investor has caught tons of attention on Chinese social media. 
在过去的两周里，很多中国股民由于股市连续暴跌深受困扰。当媒体被各种变幻莫测的股市信息和一系列的救市政策充斥的时候，一位高龄炒股老人在社交媒体上引起了很多关注。

Shi Kunsen, 97, is known as the "master of stocks" in Hangzhou, southeast China's Zhejiang province. He has certainly lived up to(无愧于) his reputation. While everyone invested(投资) excitedly in the bull market(牛市) in June, Shi cleared out all his stocks(清仓) in time to dodge(回避) the twoslumps(暴跌), except for one which went through the roof.

Shi started to dabble in the stock market(股市) out of boredom when he retired in 1998, and he has been fond of analyzing(分析) stocks and grading(打分) them ever since. The higher rated a particular stock, the more likely he is to buy it.

He claims that he is doing this to exercise his brain and stave off Alzheimer's disease, rather than to make lots of money. His advice for other investors is: keep prudent(谨慎), ensure security(稳当)and do not get too greedy(不贪).

重点词汇 Key Words:

炒股 chǎo gǔ
invest in stocks

"炒" means "to invest" or "to sell and buy". "股" is short for "股市".
Eg. 她炒股有方，轻而易举就发了大财。 
   She invested cannily in the stock market and built up her fortune easily.

炒股词汇

[gǔ shì] 股市 stock market
[gǔ piào] 股票 share
[hóng lì] 红利 dividend
[sàn hù]  散户 private investor
[niú shì] 牛市 bull market
[xióng shì] 熊市 bear market
[tiáo zhěng] 调整 correction
[xià diē] 下跌 retreat
[bào diē] 暴跌 plunge
[shàng zhǎng] 上涨 gain
[bào zhǎng]  暴涨 surge
[fǎn tán]  反弹 rebound
[mǎi mài] 买卖 trading
[chéng jiāo é] 成交额 turnover
[gǔ shì pào mò] 股市泡沫 equities bubble