Editing Ting Hai effect (section)

==Origin==
In late 1992, the television series ''[[The Greed of Man]]'' was aired on [[Television Broadcasts Limited|TVB]] in Hong Kong. The drama centred heavily around the stock market, featuring dramatised schemes and plots by the main characters who aim to become rich through trading in the market. Ting Hai (Adam Cheng), the primary antagonist, made an immense fortune with his four sons by [[Short (finance)|selling short]] derivatives and stocks during a [[bear market]]. Many people went broke, but the Ting family became richer and richer until their eventual defeat by the protagonist Fong Chin-bok ([[Sean Lau]]).<ref>Yesasia.com. "[http://www.yesasia.com/global/%E5%A4%A7%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3-%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E8%BC%AF-%E5%BE%85%E7%BA%8C/1001831275-0-0-0-en/info.html Yesasia.com]." ''The Greed of Man summary in English.'' Retrieved on 2009-08-11.</ref> The Ting family's demise involves Ting Hai throwing his four adult sons off the stock exchange building before jumping after them, and the gruesome scene came to be seen as a curse on the stock market that recurs whenever a television series starring Adam Cheng is aired.<ref name="scmp" />

The Ting Hai effect, namely the uncanny effect Adam Cheng has on the stock market, can be traced even before ''Greed of Man'' and back to 1973, when Cheng starred in ''Romance in the Rain'', a TVB drama series based on a novel written by [[Chiung Yao]]. That year, Hong Kong's stock market fell 91.53%.<ref>{{Cite news|script-title=zh:秋官「衝擊」股市 早於1973年|date = 2015-04-14|url = http://news.mingpao.com/pns/秋官「衝擊」股市%20%20早於1973年/web_tc/article/20150415/s00004/1429035257439|newspaper = Ming Pao|language = Chinese}}</ref>