Asian Long Short Equity

Learn to build and time catalyst-driven trades across Asian markets, mapping earnings and events under different disclosure regimes with steps and mistakes to avoid.

Learn how to build a short book in Asia when stock borrow is scarce, expensive, or restricted, with practical steps for sourcing, sizing, and managing recall risk.

A practical guide to sizing long/short positions around liquidity in Asian small and mid caps, with days-to-exit rules, sizing steps, and common mistakes to avoid.

Learn how to build a short book in Asian long/short equity: borrow availability, jurisdiction rules, and sizing shorts you can actually hold to conviction.

A practical guide to timing catalysts in Asian long/short equity: earnings rhythms, disclosure gaps, and how to size around events instead of guessing dates.

Learn how borrow costs and short availability shape returns in an Asian long/short book, with steps to source, price, and manage hard-to-borrow shorts.

A hands-on guide to building sector-neutral pair trades in Asian equities, choosing the right pairs, sizing legs, and avoiding the errors that blow them up.

Learn to size Asian long/short positions by liquidity using days-to-exit and participation rate, so you can actually get out when the thesis breaks.

A practical guide to short selling in Asian equities: how to handle stock borrow, short-sale bans, and uptick rules so your long/short book keeps working.

The single most consequential decision an Asian long/short equity manager makes each day is not which stock to buy, but how much market risk to carry. Two numbers govern that decision: net exposure and...

How to use the A/H premium in China long/short pairs: what drives the gap, when it mean-reverts, and the mistakes that turn a spread trade into a loss.

A practical framework for building a market-neutral pairs trade in Asian equities: choosing the pair, sizing to neutral, and avoiding regional traps.

In developed Western markets, corporate governance is often treated as a compliance checklist, a set of boxes ticked to satisfy institutional shareholders. In Asian long/short equity, governance is something else entirely: it is a...

Learn to read net and gross exposure when evaluating an Asian long/short fund, so you understand its real risk, style, and how it makes money.

A long/short equity manager investing across Asia is never only picking stocks. Every position carries a second bet, whether the manager intends it or not: a bet on the currency in which that stock...

The ability to profit from falling share prices is what separates a long/short equity fund from a traditional long-only manager. In Asia, that ability is not a given. Short selling is a patchwork of...

A practical guide to short selling in Asian long/short equity: where borrow exists, what it costs, and the market rules that can wreck a short.

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