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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
by Tyler Durden Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - 11:31 AM Late on Monday, we made two important observations: i) hedge funds had never been more levered to market moves, with gross leverage at all time highs, as hedge funds strive to extract every last ounce of beta from the market (net leverage was also extremely high, but not record high, and is more a reflection of any given hedge fund's alpha preference)... ... and ii) hedge funds had scrambled to short tech shares explaining the recent decline in the Nasdaq, with Goldman Prime pointing out that Info Tech stocks were net sold for a third straight...
by Tyler Durden Sunday, Apr 25, 2021 - 09:00 PM Now that even Wall Street's perennial permabull, JPMorgan, has joined most other major banks including Goldman, Deutsche and Morgan Stanley in warning that the coming weeks and months could be treacherous for stocks (DB went so far as predicting a 10%+ correction in the next three months), and saying on Friday that "easy equity gains for the broad market are likely behind us" and as a result its "bullish conviction is now lower", a caution which spooked retail and hedge fund investors alike, with Goldman Prime reported on Friday that its book " ...
by Tyler Durden Wednesday, Apr 21, 2021 - 09:53 AM Less than a week ago we reported that after Morgan Stanley and BofA, Deustche Bank joined the growing bandwagon of sellside researchers warning that the market is facing a period of severe turbulence, investors appear to be heeding the caution in what BofA calls a significant shift to the "increasingly euphoric sentiment." Yesterday we reported that according to the latest institutional and HNW client data published by Bank of America, the bank's flow desk just had seen the biggest outflows in five months as clients were net sellers of a who...