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CTAs Cut Nasdaq-100 Futures Exposure by Nearly $3 Billion
The three-session selling run was the largest since March 2025. A CTA positioning Z-score also moved from +2.35 at August’s end to −0.80 a month later.

The latest three sessions brought the largest CTA retreat from Nasdaq-100 futures since March 2025, totaling nearly $3 billion.
CTAs are trend-following funds that use quantitative models to take futures positions across equities, bonds, commodities and currencies.
An earlier CTA positioning Z-score stood at +2.35 at August’s close and −0.80 one month later, a shift of more than three standard deviations.