Short squeeze on deck

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Short squeeze on deck. The Market Ear.


Nasty

McElligott sums it up well. This is the scenario nobody (few) wanted: “…positioning and leverage exposure de-risked, Macro-Bearish and underweighted the “Mag8” U.S. Equities in general vs R.O.W. …but now suddenly, it’s MegaCap Tech Secular Growth which is awkwardly then leading to the Upside , in a rally which nobody has had enough on to “capture”…but are now being forced to buy-back“.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.