
Thursday, November 5th, was a day of extremes:
•US long/short Hedge Fund net leverage declined by 5% day over day, the 5th largest single-day decline since 2010. Net leverage is now in the bottom decile since 2010.^
•Long/short fund active gross flow since June has amounted to a -10.7% reduction relative to their gross market value at the end of June, the most in at least 10 years.^
•Hedge Funds are now underweight AI stocks* relative to market cap weights, but AI is still a very large percent of absolute exposures at 32%.^
•Levered ETFs had the largest amount to sell on data going back to 2007, bringing $57bn of US equity supply.
•Retail selling of US equities in the first 90 minutes, based on MS QDS estimates using public data, was the second largest going back to 2016.
•Equities are now starting to trade in a more correlated fashion, often signaling that risk reduction is broadening out.
^Sourced from MS Prime Brokerage.
*AI stocks defined as the constituents of the MSXXAI Index, made up of AI tech beneficiaries, AI power names, and key hyperscalers