One is for plans to reduce risk in traditional assets during times of stress — but not everyone is comfortable or able to
sell into a falling market.
Make sure to weigh all evidence at your disposal before
jumping into a falling market, and apply defensive risk management to ensure a safe exit if you are proven wrong.
It's best not to rely on the ability to execute
sales into a falling market, because the range - expansion we've recently seen on the upside may very well have a mirror - image on the downside.
The extent to which selling
into a falling market sets off an amplifying price response depends on market liquidity and the capacity of dealers to absorb the sales.
If the market moves against their investments and their capital cushion gets eroded to the point where their ability to operate becomes questionable to regulators (or customers), the banks might be forced to sell
investments into a falling market in order to preserve solvency.
In mid-2002, their regulators delivered the coup de grace, ordering the European insurers to sell their now - depressed stocks and
bonds into a falling market.
Sowood's losses spooked markets on Friday as traders and other hedge fund managers worried the fund would have to
sell into a falling market to meet margin calls.
Before the margin desks must act, some account holders will manage their own risk, bite the bullet, and sell
into a falling market, exacerbating the action.
Amid the carnage, they were forced to sell
into falling market.