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The Last Time Hedge Funds Were This Short, Small Caps Plunged 30%

• http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden

As Bloomberg notes, hedge funds and other major speculators have a combined net short position of 73,030 contracts in the small-cap index's futures, according to the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Russell 2000 sentiment has sharply declined since January, when future contract positioning reached record bullishness. It's now the most short since May 2011.

And with the Fed balance sheet set to be 'normalized' and rate-hikes coming no matter what, one wonders what would save stocks this time?


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