According to McElligott, his gamma folks were ALL IN PLUS MARGINED, as posted in the past week(weeks)
According to Pasta, they all have to be scrambling to sell/deleverage
According to MS, there is up to $10BN in notional selling pressure today from "systematic and price reactive traders", this liquidation amount could soar to $60BN which would "generate a self-fulfilling downward move ..."
if the S&P closes below 3,235 ...
The silver lining: some of this supply should be offset by pension demand ...that number is $7BN to buy over the next two weeks. Yet even so, while this demand is an "offset", MS warns that "it should come through more slowly than the supply."
chart only:
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inli ... k=nkAsur8l