Overall hedge fund net positioning according to Goldman has dropped to levels we haven’t seen outside of liberation day in the past five years.
While US Long/Short Fund gross leverage is at the 56th percentile one-year (and the 90th five-year percentile), US net leverage saw “the largest weekly decline since Apr ’25 (week of Liberation Day) and the 4th largest weekly decline in the past five years to 43.7%” which is the 0 percentile for both the one and five-year lookbacks.
The US Fundamental long/short ratio (MV) remained at the 0 percentile one-year (and now also five-year).
So hedge funds decreased longs and increased shorts last week, likely in a move to preserve what has been a good year, but leaving a huge amount of room for them to eventually reengage with the market.