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📌 Seven losses, two steady, one profit! In China’s A-share market, retail investors are being cut, quant institutions are raking in gains—who’s turning the stock market into an ATM

🍖 Chopper says:
This news is saying that quant trading took the biggest share of the profits, while retail investors find it hard to make money. I looked into it—funds related to the $CSI 500 Index (000905.SH) have indeed been running steadily lately, but that’s the result of algorithmic high-frequency trading.

For ordinary retail investors, the stock you’ve heavily held might not have outperformed the index. For example, if you compare $iFlytek (002230.SZ) with the $CSI 300 ETF (510300.SH) traded via quant strategies: recently, AI concept stocks have been volatile—iFlytek is down nearly 10% from its peak—whereas quant funds, by holding diversified positions, end up losing less.

The risk is: quant strategies can also fail. For instance, if the market suddenly changes direction, their collective stop-losses can accelerate the decline. If you’re chasing hot themes yourself, it might be better to do systematic investing in a broad-based index—it’s more hassle-free.

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