{"id":62226,"date":"2018-02-09T00:55:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62226"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:56:23","slug":"hedge-funds-dug-into-stocks-right-before-the-market-went-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/hedge-funds-dug-into-stocks-right-before-the-market-went-mad.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Dug Into Stocks Right Before the Market Went Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) You didn\u2019t have to be some dad with an E*Trade account or an ex-manager for Target Corp. shorting the VIX to get burned. The smart set took its lumps in the downdraft, too.<\/p>\n<p>Days before the S&#038;P 500 Index\u2019s biggest selloff since 2015, bullishness among hedge funds specializing in stocks surged to the highest in more than three years, according to client data compiled by JPMorgan Chase &#038; Co. The bank looked at a value called net exposure, which subtracts short positions from longs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-02-08\/hedge-funds-dug-into-stocks-right-before-the-market-went-haywire\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) You didn\u2019t have to be some dad with an E*Trade account or an ex-manager for Target Corp. shorting the VIX to get burned. The smart set took its lumps in the downdraft, too. Days before the S&#038;P 500 Index\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62227,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62226\/revisions\/62227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}