With the furious market action from the past 2 weeks dying down in no small part because "headline fatigue is real right now" as Goldman's John Flood writes in his latest Intraday Equity color note (available to pro subs), we take quick advantage of the lull to go through the latest Institutional, HF Prime Brokerage, ETF, Systematic (and other) data to get a detailed breakdown on positioning right now, or as one Goldman trader put it "stunning charts."
We start with the latest net flows chart from GS PB (as of COB 4/14), which shows that most of the shorts in macro products established earlier this month have been covered in the past few trading sessions, but through yesterday the GS PB desk has still not yet seen a positive turn in single stock net flow...