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Hedge funds cut back trading after LME nickel chaos
By Laurence Fletcher
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Hedge funds have cut back positions in some markets that they fear could suddenly become difficult to transact in, following the London Metal Exchange’s decision to void thousands of nickel trades.
The LME's move in March to cancel eight hours’ worth of trades has pushed a number of hedge funds to reassess the risk they face across their portfolios from human interference upending their positions.
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The exchange stepped in to halt a squeeze on a short seller and protect other users from heavy losses after the price of nickel soared by 250% in just a couple of days, to $100,000 a tonne.
Its shift provoked uproar among traders, not only because many lost out on profits but also because it left them with unhedged positions in other metals markets.
Rotterdam-based quantitative hedge fund Transtrend, which trades global futures markets and manages $6.5 billion in assets, told the Financial Times that it had decided to stop trading on the LME "following the nickel debacle." It added that this decision had led to it running smaller positions in metals than it would otherwise have held.. ...
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