Mar. 5 at 6:32 PM
$ARE Literally every sell off day except Feb 11 and 12th since January has followed this same clear pattern of liquidity sweep and accumulation. Giant spike of sells in 15 minute period (very possibly from short positions), followed by gradual accumulation and short closing with a ton of volume spread out across the rest of the day.
For example, Hedge Fund A wants a position at
$51 but the price is
$54. They leverage
$3,000,000 to open a short position to drop the price to
$51. They then buy
$15,000,000 of the stock starting at
$51 including closing out their short position. The stock price is now at
$54 again and Hedge Fund A has now accumulated
$12,000,000 of the stock with an average price of
$52
