JohnTill
$LU $QFIN $LX
This could potetially be an important line in the sand. I looed a little closer and the very large after-hours prints in LU, LX, QFIN and FINV all carried condition code Z, identifying Cboe BZX, the venue that operates the Cboe Market Close service.
Friday, September 18, was a massive globally scheduled rebalancing day, coinciding with quarterly index rebalances and quadruple witching.
The short version is that either a fund needed to exit large positions in LU, LX and QFIN, or some form of passive rebalancing created the selling pressure despite the longer-term fundamentals. If it was a fund exiting, they were likely selling for weeks, with Friday's closing crosses representing the final pieces of those positions. CMC would have matched buyers and sellers during the day, with the crosses executing at the official closing price. Since these stocks were pushed down near their session lows, the buyers ultimately picked up those large blocks at very cheap prices.
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