Hedge funds kick risk addiction at end of crazy year for stocks

December's big sellers were hedge funds, which, chastened by wrong-way bets on high-flying software firms, spent the month slashing high-momentum trades. It helped make this one of the most volatile year-ends for big-cap tech in the past decade, with the absolute size of close-to-close moves in the Nasdaq 100 clocking in around 1.4%.

from Economic Times https://ift.tt/3qsU7xG