A Chinese Equity Factor from Stock Turnover’s Market Co-Movement

Summary

This Chinese equity research report builds a stock-selection factor from how each stock’s trading value co-moves with the rest of the market under two conditions. When a stock is relatively high in its recent intraday range, stronger co-movement is interpreted as lower investor disagreement and potentially persistent strength. When market returns are unusually aligned, weaker turnover co-movement is treated as a possible sign of stock-specific activity and emerging themes. The two signals are combined with equal weights.

The report describes minute-level calculations, monthly aggregation, and tests on Chinese A-shares over a historical sample. It reports favorable rank information coefficients and long-short results, including after neutralizing common style and industry exposures; it also reports tests within major Chinese indices and at a weekly rebalance frequency. These are historical backtests, not guarantees of future performance. The authors explicitly warn that market conditions and factor drivers can change, so the reported relationships may weaken or fail.

Key ideas

• The first signal favors stocks whose turnover co-moves with the market while their prices are relatively high in their recent intraday range.
• The second signal favors independent turnover behavior during periods when cross-stock returns are less dispersed.
• The two signals are combined with equal weights into a monthly stock-selection factor.
• The report presents historical tests on Chinese equities, including style-neutralized and index-universe results.
• The authors warn that historical relationships may fail as market conditions change.

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