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The Nasdaq correction is a positioning story before it is a fundamentals story
A correction that runs ahead of any earnings revision is generally a deleveraging event. Prices move because holders are forced, not because forecasts changed.
The tell is whether forward estimates fall with the price. If they hold while the index drops, the move is mechanical and finite. If they fall too, it is the start of something longer.
Either way the useful discipline is the same: write down the estimate before the price, then check whether the market followed it or led it.
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