Tracking New Highs to Monitor Chinese Equity Momentum and Market Leadership

Summary

This report uses 250-trading-day highs to track momentum across Chinese stocks, sectors, and indices. It defines distance from a 250-day closing high as the pullback from the maximum close, with zero indicating a new high. The report treats the number and distribution of recent new-high stocks as a way to monitor market leadership and emerging sector strength. For the week ending October 21, 2022, it reports 187 stocks that had reached a 250-day high within the preceding 20 trading days and summarizes their distribution across industries, market segments, and indices.

It then screens for smoother, persistent leaders using analyst upgrades, relative performance, price-path smoothness, persistence near highs, and recent trend continuity. The report identifies 43 stocks under this method and cites prior research on momentum and smoother price paths. These are historical observations and a screening framework, not evidence of a tradable strategy’s returns. The results are tied to one date and a specified market universe, and the document does not provide a full backtest or the underlying stock table.

Key ideas

• The report measures stock and index strength using distance from the 250-day closing high.
• Recent new-high counts and sector distributions are used as indicators of market leadership.
• The smoother-leader screen combines analyst attention, relative strength, price-path smoothness, and persistence near highs.
• The reported stock counts describe one historical snapshot and do not establish strategy performance.
• The document does not include a full backtest or the detailed list of screened stocks.

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