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"....In short, in their scramble to generate alpha, "sophisticated" hedge funds were forced to use "strategies" popularized by Dave Portnoy and his merry Gen-Z merry men (on Robinhood): buying high beta stocks and doing so with as much leverage as possible.
And since the two most popular (and only) "strategies" observed on Robinhood have been to either ball calls on winning momentum stocks (a strategy that was taken to its logical extreme by SoftBank as we explained over the weekend), or Buying The F**king Dip out of losers (such as Hertz), it comes as no surprise at all that as Goldman writes this morning, there has been "no sign of de-risking as hedge funds bought the dip in US equities amid the recent market rout."
As Goldman details further, hedge funds bought the dip "as the GS Prime book was net bought in each of the past two days (Friday and Tuesday) led by US TMT stocks.
In cumulative $ terms, "the net buying in US TMT stocks over the past two days is the largest in five months."
"....In short, in their scramble to generate alpha, "sophisticated" hedge funds were forced to use "strategies" popularized by Dave Portnoy and his merry Gen-Z merry men (on Robinhood): buying high beta stocks and doing so with as much leverage as possible.
And since the two most popular (and only) "strategies" observed on Robinhood have been to either ball calls on winning momentum stocks (a strategy that was taken to its logical extreme by SoftBank as we explained over the weekend), or Buying The F**king Dip out of losers (such as Hertz), it comes as no surprise at all that as Goldman writes this morning, there has been "no sign of de-risking as hedge funds bought the dip in US equities amid the recent market rout."
As Goldman details further, hedge funds bought the dip "as the GS Prime book was net bought in each of the past two days (Friday and Tuesday) led by US TMT stocks.
In cumulative $ terms, "the net buying in US TMT stocks over the past two days is the largest in five months."
