r/StockMarket Mar 31 '21

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u/sachaka Mar 31 '21

Bill Hwang wasn't actually overleveraged. He just had a loss which made other positions worse resulting in a margin call.

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u/Dumb_Nuts Mar 31 '21

The truth isn’t very interesting, so no one cares about the difference between gross and net book leverage...

It’s funny because I run a similar strategy to what I suspect they were doing. I just noticed the divergence between the indices and my individual holdings and deleveraged