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A major Wall Street bank just dropped a bombshell regarding MicroStrategy stock. Their analysts are sounding alarms that potential index rebalancing could force institutional investors to dump billions worth of MSTR shares.



Here's the concern: if certain benchmark indices decide to reduce MSTR's weighting or remove it altogether, passive funds tracking those indices would have no choice but to sell. We're talking automatic, mechanical selling—not based on fundamentals, but pure index mechanics.

The scale matters here. With MSTR's massive Bitcoin holdings and its popularity among institutional portfolios, even a modest index adjustment could trigger significant liquidation pressure. Passive investment vehicles don't get to pick and choose—they follow the index rules religiously.

What makes this particularly interesting? MSTR has become a de facto Bitcoin proxy for traditional finance players who can't or won't hold crypto directly. Any forced selling wave could create some wild price swings, potentially disconnecting the stock from Bitcoin's actual performance temporarily.

Worth watching how index providers handle this situation. The intersection of traditional finance rules and crypto-adjacent assets continues to create these unique scenarios.
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ruggedNotShruggedvip
· 6h ago
Here we go again with the same old rhetoric... Passive fund selling pressure? Please, MSTR has long been the institutional backdoor for BTC. We've seen plenty of dumping during rebalancing, so why pretend to be surprised?
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GasGuzzlervip
· 6h ago
Alright, it's the old game of index rebalancing again. MSTR might be about to get cut again... --- Wait, do passive funds have to sell obediently? That logic is a bit absurd. --- Billions of dollars in selling pressure, how deep does this have to go... --- Honestly, traditional finance can't play with crypto, using MSTR as a proxy. Now they're scared and want to run. --- Haha, let's see who panics first this time, institutions or retail investors. --- Index rebalancing = fixed-point clearing? Feels a bit too "coincidental." --- Really, when traditional finance rules meet on-chain assets, they always manage to stir up some trouble. --- When the sell-off wave arrives, should you run quickly or buy the dip? It's a multiple-choice question, everyone. --- So, will BTC follow the decline passively? How tight is this correlation this time? --- The index providers are playing this hand, everyone in the industry knows it well.
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SilentObservervip
· 6h ago
The issue of index rebalancing can really lead to dumping... Passive funds are heartless, they just mechanically sell. MSTR, as a BTC proxy, is a bit awkward; institutions still don't dare to directly touch the coin. If a liquidation really happens this time, whether BTC can withstand it is a question.
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MetaverseLandladyvip
· 6h ago
This is the rigidity of TradFi, passive funds are just puppets.
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