This list ranks stocks on Asian exchanges by their year-to-date (YTD) price gain, the percentage change since the last close of the previous year, and shows the top 100. The YTD leaderboard is where the market's big themes of the year show up first. Prices are in each exchange's local currency, and the list covers stocks traded in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul and Jakarta with at least about US$0.7 million in average daily trading value.