While investors in the west are generally skeptical about the reliability of the candlestick technical analysis, this technique is commonly used in some Asian equity markets in short-term speculative investments. This paper examines the effectiveness of five different candlestick reversal...

This paper examines the relationship between mutual fund managers' past professional backgrounds and their portfolio performance, using Chinese mutual fund data from 2003 to 2016. We focus on managers with prior work experience either as industry analysts or as macro analysts, the two most...