Best way to cash in on China's stock rally: Do nothing

New York

THE best way to make money in China's booming stock market has been, well, to do nothing.

Simply buying and holding would have captured the 142 per cent return in the Shanghai Composite Index over the past year, the best performance among 23 trading models based on technical analysis such as the Bollinger band indicator and moving averages. The mean return of these tools is only 14 per cent, according to back-testing data compiled by Bloomberg.

The absence of…