Chinese Stock Screening with Moving Average Trends and Institutional Flows

Summary

This note presents a Chinese equity screen that ranks stocks by capital strength, keeps those with positive institutional activity, and requires the 20-day moving average to exceed the 120-day average. The moving-average comparison is intended to represent a short-term trend stronger than the longer-term trend, while capital strength and institutional direction are treated as measures of market activity and investor positioning.

The author cautions that flow indicators may be misleading or manipulated, institutional activity can change with market conditions and policy, and moving averages reflect noisy market sentiment. Suggested refinements include adding valuation measures and combining technical and fundamental analysis. The note gives a conceptual rationale but no backtest, defined implementation for the capital-strength ranking, or evidence of returns; the final selection logic is also incomplete.

Key ideas

• The screen requires the 20-day moving average to be above the 120-day average.
• It also uses positive institutional activity and ranks by a capital-strength measure.
• The note interprets these filters as trend, activity, and positioning signals.
• It warns that flows, institutional behavior, and moving averages can all give unreliable signals.
• The proposal has no reported performance evidence and leaves implementation details unspecified.

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