Journal of Empirical Studies 2312-623X 2312-6248 Journal of Empirical Studies Testing the Random Walk: The Case of Hong Kong Stock Exchange Journal of Empirical Studies Journal of Empirical Studies 06-2014 2014 06-2014 06-2014 1 2 54 61 30 Nov 30 Nov  The purpose of this paper is to investigate random walk in HongKong stock exchange.  The unit root, autocorrelation and the variance ratio tests are applied, using daily data on returns of two indexes in the period 1997:7 to 2012:12. For two indexes, the null hypothesis of random walk is rejected and therefore the markets are no weak-form efficiency.