A-shares STAR Market The STAR Market index fits perfectly within the scope of technical analysis: Previous high Pressure and pullback Breakthrough of the previous high Retest and hit a new high Big A's market performance this year isn't much worse than the U.S. stock market. Of course, the worst is still Bitcoin—crypto has been a total dumpster fire all year. If regular folks don't know how to pick individual stocks, just buy indexes, buy ETFs, and choose the right index to hold long-term.