‘Everyone was tricked into dumping their volatility positions at the worst possible time.’

Everyone was tricked into dumping their volatility positions at the worst possible time. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) October 25, 2023 #recession … #StockMarket Bubble edition#volatility #VIX 📈 😬 https://t.co/xm7BJe63zl pic.twitter.com/8ibL9o05JU — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) October 25, 2023 #recession … #StockMarket Bubble edition#smallcaps $IWM #RTY_F 📉 🥶 https://t.co/N7GtyHGPEb — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) October 25, 2023 Jeremy Grantham: …

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Fed Warns of “Financial Stability Vulnerability Due to Leveraged Treasury Short Positions

via Mike Shedlock: Hedge funds and asset managers are in opposite camps, with leverage, posing risk of an accident. Hedge Fund Basis Trade ‘Probably’ Back and Posing Risk Bloomberg reports Hedge Fund Basis Trade ‘Probably’ Back and Posing Risk, Fed Says Hedge funds have “probably” increased their positions in highly leveraged Treasury basis trades, posing a …

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From SEC staff Memorandum: Figures 9B and 10B display daily counts of gross positions that surpass 7% and 10% of a U.S. listed security’s market cap, respectively. A single participant can hold multiple large positions, hence the count can exceed the total number of market participants…

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: Memorandum from the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis My understanding is figures 9 and 10 outline the daily market participants’ gross positions in securities exceeding 7% and 10% of the security’s market capitalization. On average, 65 participants exceed the 7% threshold daily, and 46 exceed the 10% threshold. The highest recorded numbers …

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The Los Angeles Times is cutting 74 positions in the newsroom due to economic pressures.

Los Angeles Times to cut 74 newsroom positions amid advertising declines. The Los Angeles Times is cutting its newsroom staff, becoming the latest news organization to contract amid economic pressures brought on by advertising and print readership declines. The Times is eliminating 74 positions in the newsroom, representing about 13% of the total. Full-time and temporary …

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Investors have increased their short positions against tech stocks. Jobless techies being cast into #BidensEconomy to fend for themselves.

Big tech stocks have some of the highest short interest in the market. Last month, investors added $3.57 billion to their short positions against $TSLA, $2.5 billion against $NVDA and $7.26 billion against $META — Cheddar Flow (@CheddarFlow) June 4, 2023 https://twitter.com/VSoien/status/1665479234213539842 https://twitter.com/VSoien/status/1665481649436459011 Job cut announcements in technology picked up in May: pic.twitter.com/kFipcmACz1 — unusual_whales …

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