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concept Updated 2026-08-08 Tags: Investing, Markets, China, Cycles

A-Share Market Seasons / A股四季框架

A-share market seasons are [[WuWeizhi|吴伟志]]’s cycle language in A股的春夏秋冬：种树、种粮、种菜. The framework uses spring, summer, autumn, and winter as market-temperature ranges rather than exact timing signals, helping the investor decide total exposure, buying speed, selling discipline, and whether a sector should be treated as recovering, accelerating, overheating, or depressed.

The source applies the framework at two levels. At the whole-market level, Wu describes the recorded A-share state as a summer-stage bull-market process and possibly late summer. At the structure level, he says AI-linked themes may be closer to autumn while some consumption assets are in late winter, so one market can hold several seasons at once.

The framework extends A-Share Bull Market History and Market Regime Shift by turning historical cycle awareness into portfolio action. It does not promise an exact top or bottom; instead, it tells the investor when to build exposure slowly, when a bull market may require faster deployment, when to harvest overvaluation, and when to separate systematic drawdown risk from company-specific deterioration.

Key Claims

  • Seasons are ranges, not point forecasts; asking for an exact turning point in a fuzzy market state is itself a category error.
  • A-share markets are treated as more cycle-like than the U.S. market, so season judgment matters more for broad exposure and risk control.
  • The same market can contain different sector seasons, which prevents one index label from becoming a whole-portfolio answer.
  • The framework ties directly to Position Sizing: total exposure, individual-stock entry rhythm, and sell discipline should change with market season.
  • A seasonal frame should still be checked against valuation, policy, earnings, liquidity, and market breadth instead of becoming a new slogan.

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