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How to trade china stock market index ?

How to invest in china stock market
using US based stock exchanges

China stock market index is one of most watched stock market indexes in the world . Chinese economy proved to be huge economic machine that generates a lot of growth in this Asian country.

Most of developed countries lost a lot of jobs in previous decades that were replaced by workers in Asian factories working for salary that is only fractional comparing to salary of workers in USA or in Europe.

Chinese economy is heavily managed by government and so its development is not only positive. There is talk about overheating periods during this development. Chinese government controls undervalued currency that is fixed to USD. This currency exchange management means plenty of money printing in local Chinese currency that leads to huge inflation in China.

Chinese citizens have also limited availability how to invest their money and Chinese stock market is one of few possibilities together with real estate and gold.

How to invest in china stock market ?

China stock market is not opened for international private investors. This is local stock market with only few possibilities for institutional investors. China is regulated economy and communist leaders are trying to manage everything. This economy is also heavily protected and benefits from this protection a lot.

So one has to monitor china stock market index with this knowledge in the mind as performance of stocks in local china stock market is not based only on performance of individual companies. It's performance is based also on factors like limits of possible investment opportunities for Chinese citizens and also with management of local currency liquidity by Chinese government.

But Chinese economy is important for the world economic development these days quite a lot so I regularly monitor china stock market index together with another indications of Chinese economic performance. My global macro fundamental research includes also articles about this big Asian economy.

Charts of china stock market index

I personally monitor this china stock market index - The Shanghai A-Share Stock Price Index. I do it during my regular stock market analysis routine.

This index is a capitalization-weighted index. The index tracks the daily price performance of all A-shares listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange that are restricted to local investors and qualified institutional foreign investors. The Base Value is 100. The index was launched on February 21, 1992.

Using china ETF to trade chinese stock market

Good option to trade and invest in china stock market is to use exchange traded funds issued in USA and traded on US stock exchanges. These china ETF shares tracks different groups of Chinese companies.

I personally have these China ETF shares in my list of ETF I regularly monitor, analyze and trade.

First one is iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund (FXI) provided by IShares exchange traded funds provider. This fund tracks 25 of the largest and most liquid Chinese stocks (Red Chips and H shares) listed and trading on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK).

The biggest members of this index are companies like CHINA MOBILE LTD with 9,44%, CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK-H with 9,13%,IND & COMM BK OF CHINA-H with 8,16%,CNOOC LTD with 7,64%, BANK OF CHINA LTD-H with 6,19% and PETROCHINA CO LTD-H with 4,44%

Another important China ETF I regularly monitor is SPDR S&P China ETF with ticker symbol GXC. This ETF tracks the S&P® China BMI Index. This index is a market capitalization weighted index that defines and measures the investable universe of publicly traded companies domiciled in China, but legally available to foreign investors.

This index represents better view of china stock market as it holds much more companies in portfolio, over 150.

Short China ETF

Chinese stock market is not only rising but also there are times of decline as is visible on chart above. There are inverse, or short China ETF shares, that can be used by investors or traders in this case instead of standard short selling. I would like to recommend caution when using inverse or leveraged exchange traded fund shares as they are much more risky then standard non leveraged exchange traded funds.

The most popular is probably UltraShort FTSE China 25 with symbol FXP. This Short ProShares ETF seeks a return that is -2x the return of an index or other benchmark (target) for a single day, as measured from one NAV calculation to the next.

There are also specific sector based china exchange traded funds traded on US stock exchanges. They can be used for trading too, although they are more focused on individual sectors of Chinese economy. But it can be better then broad china stock market index funds mentioned above as biggest companies in these funds are china state owned companies.

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