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The comparison he gives is that of a theater which keeps getting more and more crowded but the doors remain the same. In the bull market everyone keeps buying m
by elwebmaster 4y ago
The comparison he gives is that of a theater which keeps getting more and more crowded but the doors remain the same. In the bull market everyone keeps buying more and more index ETFs which are highly liquid. However, over half of the underlying securities have low trading volume. As long as investors keep piling into the ETFs there is no problem. But when investors start selling the ETF, and the ETF has to sell the underlying equities, then prices may fall much faster due to low volume and no demand.
- Ekaros 4y agoIsn't there also compounding factor here due to them relying on index and rebalancing that. So selling without corresponding demand means that price will drop more than index thus meaning that funds will sell more of that stock to fix the index. Thus generating more downward pressure.