In fixed income, the major flow was heavy selling of duration, with specs adding to shorts in long bonds (39k) and ultras (19k). Add in some selling of 5s (83k), and the modest buying of 2s (62k) and 10s (10k) didn’t really move the needle that much -- the aggregate speculative short rose by 171k TY equivalents to its largest size since January. Eurodollars, meanwhile, saw short-covering of 179k. In equities, oh dear. E-mini S&P futures saw net buying of 56k, taking the long position to its largest since December 2018 -- though that episode came after a much larger selloff. While specs also bought NDX futures (6k), they sold some Dow (5k) and Russell (10k) contracts. The VIX saw short-covering of 21k, but as of Tuesday’s close there was still a short position of 61k. Ouch.