China Tanks As Analysts Focus On Steps Ahead

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Mark Melin
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Weeks after a known handful of professional asset managers expressed their doubts about what was looking rather like a “hockey stick market” – where prices rose significantly in a short period of time – Chinese investors find themselves learning the principle of supply and demand amid a stock value readjustment. Supply and demand is a force of the universe that applies to more than markets, but human behavior as well, and Chinese investors could be exhibiting signs of emotional volatility. China is learning about free market volatility as their SDR currency acceptance signals the shifting world order This Zen-like Asian…

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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.