Useful equation to remember when thinking about leverage, forced trading and impact on prices is X = L * (L - 1) * R. Here R is the return on the underlying stock/futures/whatever, L is leverage and X is the trade required to maintain constant leverage after a price move.
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Replying to @macrocephalopod
Why should maintaining constant leverage - symmetrically both up as well as down - be an objective function? Also, what should be relevant is the extent to which the asset return exceeds or falls short of the cost of funds used to create the leverage. R can be the difference.
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Replying to @professoryadav @macrocephalopod
I appreciate your example of 2X/3X funds or some portfolio managers. But keeping the same leverage level thru the same stock appears neither necessary nor viable long-term - momentum can’t last indefinitely & value gaps are limited. Should not that limit crazy feedback effects?
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There’s a natural limit to the crazy feedback effects when the funds trying to implement constant leverage blow up :)
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