What changed
Now we have Situational Awareness, a levered AI/infrastructure book with big losses in weeks and a public stock portfolio sold to Citadel, and the AI complex ripping immediately after. UBS AI winners Stock Index is up over 10% today.
• 1998: LTCM
• 2018: Volmeggeon - XIV / short-vol unwind
• 2020: Treasury basis trade / forced deleveraging
• 2021: Archegos, more idiosyncratic, but same forced-liquidation pattern — via @biancoresearch