Earlier this week we noted that according to Charlie McElligott's quant model, we were just days away from a critical CTA "sell trigger", which as we followed up was triggered in the Russell 2000 the very next day, sending small caps sharply lower.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-08/trigger-breached-ctas-have-started-liquidating-long-positions?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

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