Hedge Funds Are Getting Crushed: Is Extreme Positioning a Contrarian Indicator?
Goldman Sachs prime brokerage data shows the fastest hedge fund technology de-grossing in records back to 2016, U.S. fundamental long-short net leverage at the 0th percentile of five years (about 43.7%), and technology still 23.5% of the global prime book - the 90th percentile. The episode separates net from gross leverage, forced selling from informed selling, and tests the contrarian case against the only two prior VIP basket prints of this size: the COVID crash and the DeepSeek selloff.
Sources: Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research and prime brokerage data as reported by Reuters…
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