'Markets bring more pains than gains'

Editor's Note: The drastic plunge in the stock markets has caught investors unprepared. But not everyone is losing heavily. Excerpts from interactions with a cross section of some investors.

Jiang Meifeng, 57, retiree, Xianyang, Shaanxi

I am part of the earliest group of stock market investors in the Chinese mainland, and I always make a point of studying all the available charts and indexes.