China Moves To Prop Up Stock Market

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Mark Melin
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What goes up, must come down is a saying the Chinese are learning, as the Shanghai Composite index is down 29 percent since ValueWalk first ran stories of hedge fund managers who were questioning valuations in the Asian nation. China likes stock bubbles when they continue to move higher, not so much when they burst Free market forces and the value opportunity that a stock market correction brings were apparently not on the mind of Chinese authorities, as the Chinese central bank alongside the nation’s stock brokerages supported the market. The stock buying spree did modulate afternoon trading, but its effectiveness…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.