A Small-Cap Chinese Stock Strategy Using Opening Gaps

Summary

This Chinese equities strategy builds a daily candidate list from the 300 smallest eligible stocks by market capitalization, excluding special-treatment and suspended shares. It selects up to seven targets when a stock opens below the previous day’s low, provided that the stock did not touch its down limit the prior day and does not open at the down limit. Purchases are made after existing holdings are sold.

Exit rules include taking profit after a 10% pullback, stopping out at a 10% loss, selling shares that leave that day’s candidate list, and selling on a qualifying gap above the previous day’s high. The latter also excludes stocks that touched the upper price limit the previous day or open at that limit. The document supplies rule descriptions but no backtest, data period, transaction-cost assumptions, or evidence of results, so the strategy’s profitability and practical execution are unestablished.

Key ideas

• The strategy ranks eligible shares by market capitalization and focuses on the smallest names.
• It buys selected stocks that open below the previous session’s low, subject to price-limit filters.
• It exits positions using profit, loss, candidate-list, and qualifying gap-up rules.
• The document provides no performance evidence or transaction-cost analysis.

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