This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, No.70302012), the New Century Excellent Talents (NCET-04-0596) and the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (No.101087).
We examine momentum and contrarian effects in China's stock market during 1994-2004 and find that no medium momentum effects exist. Meanwhile, contrarian strategy works effectively over the horizon of 18-36 months. 1...